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rhino47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 08:14 AM
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LGBT where is the anger?
 
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I have watched as the lgbt community has suffered increasing indignity ,bigotry and prejudice.
I am appalled at the lengths some go to alienate our gay brothers and sisters."Pro-family is hate without the hood.I am fed up and angry at elections being run on hate.I am fed up with the pragmatic approach to gay rights.When is the right election cycle to bring this to the fore?
We need to hold our democratic candidates feet to the fire on gay rights.How many more Matthew Shepard and Harvey Milks do there have to be?
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 12:52 PM
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1. K&R! Harvey is dead on!
Full and complete citizen rights now! Not tomorrow, not next year, not when more fascists think it is ok; but right now. This is civil rights - exactly like the 50s and 60s - and we must demand it now.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 01:27 PM
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2. Off to the greatest page with you!
:applause:
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 01:38 PM
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3. A perfect summary of my disappointment with the Democratic party.
Kicked and recommended. :kick:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:11 PM
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4. Absolutely. Even our allies aren't really standing with us.
We're expected to be sad without being angry, and for the most part we've accomodated. x(
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 08:43 PM
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10. "What are you going to do? Vote Republican?"
I don't know about you but I've heard that one too many times. :banghead:
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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:55 PM
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7. It's a perfect summary of MY disappointment with the HRC --
failure to get ENDA through without trans-insclusion has made ME very very angry.

When I see GLB stand up for T --then they can have the benefit of MY anger.

As is --I'll stay angry enough for all y'all.
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 08:47 PM
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11. Yours in solidarity!
Wanted you to know that I am standing up for T. As are many, many LGB here in SF. :hi:
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-28-07 11:09 PM
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15. yes that pissed me off, too, the exclusion of the transgendered.
:thumbsup:
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:26 PM
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5. K&R
(a heterosexual K&R even)
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rhino47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 05:51 PM
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9. Not that it matters
but a straight but not narrow op
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:52 PM
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6. kicking to infinity
:kick:

Amazingly there are those on the DU who still don't get it.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 05:33 PM
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8. When Martin Luther King was pushing Kennedy, during the bus
boycott, they tried to stall him by telling him, and all civil rights leaders, that the time wasn't right. That they only had to wait a few more years then it would be more acceptable. There are many parallels between the rhetoric used then and what is being used now.
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:49 PM
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12. Thank you, Harvey!
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gtar100 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 02:33 AM
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13. Wow, well said!! He cuts to the heart of the issue for sure.
It's *essential* we speak out against bigotry and discrimination before it's too late! There is absolutely *NO* reason for laws banning marriage for anyone in the LGBT community, not in the least. The hate is fueled by ignorance, stupidity, and irrational fear. Stupid people are just too dumb to shut up when they publicly display their ignorance and that, unfortunately drowns out the quiet acceptance of all people that marks true understanding. But all people need to speak out against anti-gay rhetoric, all people.
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Mozcram Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-28-07 08:26 PM
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14. YES!!
Well, said! Living in a prejudiced society, it is so easy to quietly internalize
the "standard" way of looking at one's minority-hood (if you will), and grow
meek and passive. If one really thinks about it, the political discourse is
absolutely unacceptably racist and homophobic, in the case of almost every
politician. Those of us who know have an obligation to take care of each
other and speak out, write out, act out!
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