Reply #51: This is how I see it....

[ikojo]

If someone is gay and white then that person pretty much enjoys majority group privilege. Unless he/she announces his/her sexual orientation then it is assumed he/she is straight and he/she is treated accordingly.

It is only when someone opens the closet door and begins to request rights readily available to the majority that the person in question begins to experience life as "other" in America.

Black people wear their "otherness" 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Sure some people have passed as white but for the most part the moment a black person in America leaves his/her house they are made well aware of where they stand in the American pecking order.

I believe an injustice to one is an injustice to all but I cannot bring myself to equate the struggle for gay rights to the struggle of black Americans to be seen and accepted as equals in the USA. Both are very important struggles but are not the same struggle.