Reply #312: Some of us gay folk ARE "women and blacks and minorities and poor people."

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You don't seem to understand that. Hazarding a guess, it looks like you have a stereotype in your mind that all gay people are affluent white men with a lot of economic and social privileges. But what about all the rest of us? As women, minorities, poor people, immigrants (documented and otherwise), people with chronic illnesses, people suffering bereavements, the unemployed, the underemployed, those struggling with no health insurance, and yes, even white men, all gay people have the extra burden of being denied rights, being verbally and physically abused all the time, being told that we are abominations in the eyes of the Lord, being at risk for being fired, being kicked out of housing, denied the right to see our loved ones when we're in the hospital, denied the right to adopt children, denied the right to enter into even civil contracts with the people we love. Yes, all these oppressions are real. They are enshrined in the constitutions of many states - Texas, Arkansas, many others - and they are enshrined in federal laws.

If you can't see the "homophobic attacks" all around you, then I don't think you want to see them.