If you are here now and gay I'm sure that waiting doesn't feel like a great choice but becoming hateful or rude or trying to outshout the haters does more harm than good. You risk a backlash that sets back the cause or causes the stigma of being gay to last longer.
I think gays at some point have to accept that some people will never accept it and in all honesty, that is ok too. What isn't OK is too hurt someone because they are gay - and I mean that physically, mentally or financially.
So you would have told Rosa Parks not to make such a fuss and sit in the back of the bus???I plan on outshouting the haters wherever I encounter them.
I don't think conntom is saying that.
My picture is that Rosa Parks quietly and with great self-possession simply refused to move from her seat.
One could do things like that without, as conntom says, "becoming hateful or rude or trying to outshout the haters."
If Rosa Parks had lashed out angrily, she would have had some justification, but she wouldn't have been nearly as effective.
Im not going to flame you, but there has been enough education on homosexuality, the vast majority of people understand that it perfectly natural for it to happen and that people are born gay, and Aids and HIV are not gay diseases etc etc
Nice enough sentiment, lemon, but I can't believe that it's really true.
It's
becoming truer, perhaps.
But there's still ground to make up.
