Reply #20: Awhile back I stopped posting here because

[Political Tiger]

of all the negativism and hatefulness but when I saw that Harvey Milk was going to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom I thought I'd share what I thought was good and inspiring news, only to have the same people offer up their usual dishing of shitty, nasty little remarks such as:

"i smell pandering."

"Probably meant to counter the news that the White House has killed anti-DADT efforts in Congress."

"Milk would be rolling in his grave. An award from this administration, after what they've done so far on LGBT issues?"

"Who needs rights? They're giving a dead guy an award!"

"I'm tired of pander bears and I'm sick of chess."

"They are in no position to "honor" him."

"Meaningless gesture. It might warm the hearts of some but does fuck-all for me personally."

So, when I came back to post the good news about Baldwin’s domestic partner bill being passed out of committee, I made the mistake of first looking at the comments to the Harvey Milk post, saw all the hatefulness and said why even bother? Of course, not every gay person on this board is consumed by hate so I thought I'd go ahead and post the link to the Baldwin story anyway but out of frustration I chose an unfortunate title for my post.

Sadly in my view, it's apparent nothing on this board has changed. It's all negative all the time. People are so bitter they can't even take just 5 minutes out of their day to appreciate that Harvey Milk is being honored. Instead, they use the news to to turn what should be something that should put a smile on their face into something to whine and complain about, again.

So why bother posting anything positive here? My mistake, and I won't be doing it again.

PS: And yes, because I refuse to give into the hate I realize to some this makes me a "fanboy/worshiper/Uncle Liza/Aunt Judy/apologist," etc. And that's fine. I've been called those names a hundred times, and I gladly own them, just like when some homophobic pig calls me a "faggot," I gladly own that too.