Reply #98: Please stop yelling in all caps. It is not necessary.

[Kerrytravelers]

And to think that gay people only have to worry about one of two issues is truly naive. I suggest heading over to the LGBT board and running that idea through a thread. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=221

Let me give only a partial list that this straight girl can think of off the top of her head:

1. adoption- child custody
2. discrimination in the workplace
3. being brutally attacked or killed for being LGBT
4. health care- unable to get benefits from partner, unable to be with partner in the hospital
5. feeling safe and welcomed where they live
6. family turns them out because they are LGBT
7. unable to get required medication because hormones aren't covered under health insurance or they have no access to health care



If you have cable and access to the LOGO channel, try watching In The Life or Coming Out Stories or many of the films that runs on LOGO to understand fully what a LGBT person experiences.