Reply #34: It is different in some ways. [View All]

While many people suffer abuse in some fashion, most don't get the kind of treatment we do, that involves being told to change something that we can't, or we're doomed to eternal damnation. While your situation is rough, it doesn't involve laws that keep you from getting married. Employers won't fire you over it. You won't have to worry about being sent to prison if you travel to the wrong places with your spouse. We face all sorts of odd things like that.Of course, we tend to get some nasty treatment when we're in school too.

Also, between race and orientation, it's a tossup really. Rights for people based upon sexual orientation is farther behind, and for gender identity is even farther yet. While not being visibly homosexual most of the time is nice, as it can be used to avoid discrimination in some ways, it also hurts in that it keeps us from being visible. Because of our invisibility, people don't tend to be aware of how many of us there are around them, and if we didn't have that factor, we'd probably gain acceptance more quickly.