Reply #42: Effects of Socialized/Population-Level Homophobia

[Logician]

Totally horrible, brings tears to my eyes. What a monster.

This just shows how much education needs to be done to erase homophobia. A country in which, from the top down, condones discrimination and second-class status to LGBT persons is the breeding ground for continued violence.

How to craft these intervention messages, and how to deliver them to target groups who are threatened (somehow) by gays and lesbians-- this is the real goal.

When religion (the Christo-Nazis) and our government (Bushco) corroborate on a campaign of hatred and fear, we need a true revolution of information targeted to all Americans-- but especially those who believe that there are no LGBT folks in their life, or who are their neigbors....

In Massachusetts, the focus on gay marriage in the past year has familiarized so many previously intolerant people with LGBT people, their families, and their dreams (common ones)-- that there is much less opposition left to gay marriage here.