Today we are ALL Gay

[nadinbrzezinski]

in all the meanings the word actually has

In particular we stand shoulder to shoulder with ALL gays (even those who are closeted)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. absolutely!

Today, (and until this bill dies) I'm GAY!! Then I go back to men.

[MercutioATC]

2. My comments on the "gay issue"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[C_U_L8R]

3. Beyond today...

until we shame these republican stooges out of their dark caves of ignorance and prejudice.

We are together

[uppityperson]

4. I'm uppity and happy, standing in support of all gays.

[snot]

5. I've got an idea--

How about a campaign in which those who support gays' rights to marry agree that, whenever they're in public with one or more friends or relatives of the same sex, they'll hold hands!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Oooh that could be dangerous

in some sections of the country... I still LIKE IT... I am not sure my Gay friends will want to go there though...

[diamondsndust]

7. COOL! .... I've always felt that I was a lesbian trapped

in a man's body because even if I was a woman, I just can't see no big ol' sweaty man on top of me!

[JackDragna]

8. I'm not gay..

..but I'm sure as hell po'ed at how society treats gays. For God's sake, do Republicans have anything better to do with their lives? They get worked up over the same sexual acts heterosexuals perform, yet if two people of the same sex do it, it's suddenly dirty. Useless, nutzo freakjobs.

[mortlefaucheur]

30. Fellow Not-Gay reporting in...

I'm actually Not-Pissed at how domestic MurKKKan society treats gays.
Politically, the GOP initiatives aren't mainstream, and they don't reflect society at large outside of a Dobson fund-raiser.
On every issue, Democrats out-poll Repigs.
On an anecdotal level, pretty much everyone I know knows someone who's gay, and everyone I know, be they on the Left or Right smells the recurrent stench of GOP desperation.
After reading an hour at RW blogs (none of which links I can post), they're just upset that all of their hopes and dreams of codifying bigotry-into-Law are for naught. A majority of the Kool-Aid drinkers have even been able to be-stir their addled synapses and realize their failed President is pandering again to anyone who will take a sip...
Society doesn't Hate Gays. Society Hates people that Hate on Gays. Society rightly hates the fascists in their midst...
If Bush* was a media guy, he could say he's hated on the Left and the Right, so he's probably where he should be.
I wonder if Swamprat has a pic of Shrub burbling up from a pit of slime?
I'll stay tuned to DU...

[stop the bleeding]

55. straight with common sense here, changed my avatar for the month

of June to stand in solidarity with everyone

[Swamp Rat]

9. Be gay every day!

[Lib Grrrrl]

10. And, Once Again...TRANSGENDER Is Completely Forgotten About!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. For me, might be ignroance on my part

this is part of the same continuum. And trust me, as a medic I treated a couple... lets just say they were plleasantly surprised that I did not care until we reached the official paperwork phase, but I cuold not avoid it there

[justice1]

21. Not completely, I thought about you.

I tend to make sarcastic comments about everyone. After reading a thread you were on one night, I felt bad after thinking about a joke I made on a previous thread. I decided not to go there again because most people aren't very supportive of transgendered people.

[nofurylike]

25. not completely, Lib Grrrrl. i get it. please hang in.

peace and solidarity

[Lib Grrrrl]

26. It's Hard...REALLY Hard

I'm sick and tired of always being at the back of the civil and human rights bus, dammit!!

Seventy percent of my people are un and or under-employed. I, myself, have been unemployed a year! And I don't think ANYONE gives a shit, because things are NOT getting better for us transgender folk.

I have fucking HAD IT with gay this gay that, gay this, gay that...ALWAYS THEY GET THEIR RIGHTS...AND WE GET SCREWED!! I'm just fucking sick of it...I'm so goddamned mad I want to scream and hit things!!

[sojourner]

29. it takes time for people to realize the many shades of sexuality...

as someone else here referred to it: the continuum of sexuality. get mad and blow off your steam. you have every reason to be pissed. but when you've finished, please take a deep breath and come back with the compassion needed to educate those who lack the awareness, and work with all of us to get change. we NEED each other. every goddam beautiful fucked-up one of us. Peace.

[nofurylike]

54. you have, sadly, much reason to rage, Lib Grrrrl. i'm sorry you must

suffer it.

please know how important it is that you are here, teaching us about what we have not understood. that is the only way things will change.

thank you for daring to wake us. please keep on.

off to change my avatar to a rainbow, its including the full spectrum of sexes, genders, sexualities and affectionalities...


peace and solidarity!

[Swamp Rat]

36. .

[rosesaylavee]

37. Because of your post, I changed from pink triangle to

the rainbow flag ... used to know this but needed to be reminded.

Take heart.

Peace.

[myrna minx]

39. We stand with all of our TBLG family.

A big Lib Grrrrl.

[Zhade]

62. I didn't forget about ya...

...but I agree, you guys/gals often get left out.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Hear! Hear!

[genieroze]

12. Does that include *?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Actually yes

if Rhandi and malloy and others are correct... yes it does include George and it is time for george to come out... wuold be good for his soul... but hey that is how liberal I am.

[genieroze]

17. Aw, do I haft ta? lol

[robbedvoter]

14. Hear, hear! I subscribe to the gay agenda (hereby explained):

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/agenda.html

[Random_Australian]

31. Pretty good, that one.

[roguevalley]

16. agreed. countrymen/women, all.

[FairVotes4all]

18. I Stand with gays...

I feel for you, Even though I am straight and live in one of the most homophobic areas in the US. I hope Bush's Homophobe agenda falls on its own putrid face!

[Lib Grrrrl]

27. And Of Course....

transgender people like me can just go to hell, right?

Who the hell EVER stands up for US?!?!?

[Kurovski]

19. Thank you nadin.

Since you have made such a kind and personal stand, please allow me to say how much I've admired and appreciated your wisdom, intelligence and experience as expressed and revealed in the past here on DU.

[JCMach1]

20. We're here, We're Queer, We've come to drink your beer!

So yes, I agree...

[robbedvoter]

22. LOL! (even if I prefer wine myself)

[sutz12]

35. Well you can't have my beer.

I'll be happy to buy you one, though.

[nofurylike]

23. so, what day will you all be lesbian, two-spirit, transgender, transexual?

gay is homosexual male.


peace

[Lib Grrrrl]

28. Egg-FUCKIN-zactly!!!

so just WHEN will you all be transgender/transsexual??

Everyone else always gets their rights and support...we just keep getting SCREWED. I'm so fucking mad I want to scream and hit things!!

[kevinbgoode]

33. I'll do it

and...and I think we should assign everyone to rent "Transamerica" this weekend...

[nofurylike]

61. that is a great suggestion, kevinbgoode. all should see that movie. eom

[nofurylike]

60. *

please keep on, Lib Grrrrl

you are enlightening people here and now, thank you!


peace and solidarity, always!

[Lib Grrrrl]

63. Thanks

All I know is....there are days where I am SO pissed off about how left out we are...that I have all I can do to keep from screaming and hitting, and throwing things!!

Goddamn, I saw an episode on Star Trek - The Next Generation tonight, that REALLY hit home for me! i'd never seen this particular episode before.

I Googled later, found out it was Season 5, Episode #17, titled "The Outcast."

It was about a race of people called the J'naii - an androgynous people. They had no gender in their race...everyone was the same. but there WERE a few J'naii who were born, and grew up, feeling as one gender or the other.

The main J'naii character, Soren, had always felt female. And the way Soren's society treated her when they found out what Soren had been hiding all those years...goddamn, I cried my heart out for Soren. and what she said in that episode, before the tribunal that condemned her...was absolutely fucking incredible. If you haven't seen that episode, I recommend it!

Oh, my God, I just could SO relate to Soren!! My mom was watching with me, of course, and I could not help myself, I kept saying, out loud...Oh, God, can I relate, Soren...and You go, girl...tell 'em!! And my mom, who is not exactly accepting but at least tolerant...she said, yes, I know...this is what you feel you go through in our society. And I said, yes.

But then, in the end, she STILL managed to basically give society a pass for treating me shitty and denying me jobs, and placing the onus for the discrimination upon ME, the victim...because...I was the one who changed. Because I refused to continue hiding and living miserable...and allowing everyone ELSE to dictate how I thought and felt, and to dictate what I did with MY BODY!!

Damn, it was just incredible!

I love my mom dearly, but damn, she can get me SO PISSED when she gives society in general a pass on treating me shitty, because "you brought it on yourself, you shoulda not changed..." Suggesting that I should have been forced to remain hiding, living a lie, feeling miserable, not being allowed to be ME...allowing others to dictate what I would think, say, feel...or DO with or to...my own body and mind! As if someone else had a right to title deed to my body and thoughts!!

Damn it made me so fuckin mad!!

[nofurylike]

24. thank you for the sentiment. it's just been hard for all us *other*

queers, seeing this all over DU, addressed almost entirely to gays only.

sorry to bring it to your thread, nadinbrzezinski, when so many others have done the same. i just can't post to all of them.

thank you for caring this much, though


peace and solidarity

[sojourner]

32. WON'T IT BE WONDERFUL WHEN WE'RE JUST ALL HUMAN?

With all our wonderful delicious and decadent differences? i don't get it about having to segregate people out by group, just so we can decide how much less to "love" them. i know it happens - but i really truly don't GET it. i shoulda been born on a dif'rent planet....

oops. i meant to post this to OP, so please don't think i had some "message" for you. i totally get your point, and am glad you are here speaking up!

[Lib Grrrrl]

38. Well, I Agree With You

I have long wished I could colonize another fucking planet. To hell with this one.

[deaniac21]

51. Republicans will NEVER be human!

[sojourner]

53. well...i had to laugh -- cuz i almost agree. but one can hope?

[Name removed]

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[Deja Q]

40. Cool. May I bestow onto the heterosexuals what they bestow on us?

[democraticinsurgent]

41. k&R

we must all stand together.

[Drifter]

42. Amen ...

Just giving my new avatar a test spin.

Cheers
Drifter

[sweetheart]

43. Today we are all gay

Tomorrow we are all potsmokers
The next day we are all women
The next day we are all men
The next day we are all black
The next day we are all hispanic
The next day we are all muslims
The next day we are all christians (real ones)
..
and all along we're screwed by the republicans.

[AngryAmish]

44. Really? Will I get better taste in shoes then?

[Beelzebud]

45. Hetro here. Standing with my liberal brothers and sisters no matter what

We may not always agree 100% on every single issue, but on the important things, I think we're all on the same page.

Freedom in America for EVERYONE!

[NMDemDist2]

46. agreed and kicked n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

47. I just adopted the pink triangle avatar in solidarity with our

gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.

[Xenotime]

48. Yes we are! Celebrate it! Live it! Enjoy it!

[SidDithers]

49. K & R...

with the caveat that not only gay individuals and couples deserve our support.

Sid

[indie_voter]

50. Count me in! n/t

[EFerrari]

52. Again?

[stepnw1f]

56. Gay Pride Calendar Right Here for Boston

download

[madokie]

57. It matters to me not what your sexuality is, it matters only where your

heart is. I love my fellow persons and my country

[Nikki Stone 1]

58. Hey, does this thread come with chocolate?

K&R

[Mikimouse]

59. Reporting for duty, and a message to my dear friends here...

In February of 2004, some of you may have been around Bryan, Texas at the rally held at the courthouse, advocating for equal rights and marital rights for EVERYONE. If you were there, you had to listen to my speech as your advocate. My love to you all!

[Rhiannon12866]

64. Me, too. And I'm proud to stand with you, my friend.

I agree. When anyone's rights are violated, this affects and threatens us all.

Rhiannon