Reply #71: Thank you for posting this.

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Quite frankly, as a black, gay man it annoys me that we even have to have this discussion. No oppressed groups' experience is exactly, 100% the same as anothers. I don't think we should have to draw up some kind of checklist of atrocities and indignities and see whose list is longer but it often seems to me that that is what some people, in their way, are doing. A few weeks ago here in Philly there was some kind of meeting between parents and school officials to discuss the issue of the harrassment of gay students. A teenaged African-American girl who is a lesbian stood up to talk about her experience and was shouted at and heckled by a room full of predominantly black ADULTS. A child being shouted at and heckled by adults, remind anyone of anything?