re: #713 sizzleRI

yeah, I should calm down. I have it pretty good as a queer.

That’s just it. it’s because WE DO have it good (I’m lucky that i had a good family. Lucky that I had the money to live in a city. Lucky that I have the resources to protect myself and make my own living somewhere where I’m comfortable) that it pisses me off. because I know people who don’t or didn’t. Hell, people I know who weren’t even gay! But they were drama nerds and stood up for gay people, or went to a college where things were uglier under the surface, or got kicked out of their home and disowned by their parents, or beat up constantly, or whatever. So dumb, so crazy, and it keeps on going.

I seem to know a lot of smart misfits that had it shitty in school. That seems to be a large portion of my social gorup ;-)

The point all boils down to this: America is reflecting bigotry in its laws. it legitimizes bigotry by codifying it into law. If America says gays can’t marry, well, maybe there’s something to that!

We change the laws, and that moves culture.