The debate over gay marriage won't be a debate in a couple of more years and for the first time this year more people than ever support gay marriage. According to Think Progress the amount of those who support gay marriage is increasing while the number of those who oppose it are declining.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out in the upcoming elections and what each candidate has to say about the right to marry.
More next time.
Showing posts with label Gay Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gay Rights. Show all posts
Monday, May 9, 2011
Saturday, December 18, 2010
DADT Repealed
More from Reuters News
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
One of the Best It Gets Better Videos
This is one of the best "It Get's Better" Videos I have seen so far. Councilman Joel Burns comes out during a city council meeting in Texas joining the ranks of people spreading the positive message to GLBT teenagers.
I have been touched by many of the It Get's Better videos but this one touched me and gives me hope about social justice for the GLBT community.
I have been touched by many of the It Get's Better videos but this one touched me and gives me hope about social justice for the GLBT community.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Iowa Makes History
Iowa is allowing gay marriages. I thought it would be New York or New Jersey or another state in New England but Iowa??
Apparently so. This is one great step (and unexpected) in the gay right movement. Here's to hoping the other states will follow suit soon.
A snippet from the official documents of the ruling:
"In a unanimous decision, the Iowa Supreme Court
today held that the Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution.
The decision strikes the language from Iowa Code section 595.2 limiting civil
marriage to a man and a woman. It further directs that the remaining statutory
language be interpreted and applied in a manner allowing gay and lesbian
people full access to the institution of civil marriage."
Read about the historical ruling here and here.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Straight Privilege?
Is there such a thing as straight privilege? The following list is taken from an essay based on a book by Peggy McIntosh called White Privilege. Some people within the GLBT community think there's such a thing as Straight Privilege, you decide.
1. I am not identified — politically, socially, economically or otherwise — by my sexual orientation.
2. I do not have to fear that my family’s, friends’ or coworkers’ finding out about my sexual orientation will have emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual or economic consequences.
3. My sexual orientation is not used to exclude me from any profession or organization (e.g., teaching, the military, the Boy Scouts).
4. I am not accused of being deviant, warped, perverted or psychologically confused because of my sexual orientation.
5. I can go home from most meetings, classes and conversations without feeling excluded, attacked, ostracized, outnumbered, intimidated, stereotyped, dehumanized or feared because of my sexual orientation.
6. People don’t assume I know other heterosexuals just because they’re heterosexual.
7. People don’t ask me why I chose my sexual orientation, and they certainly don’t ask me why I chose to be open about it.
8. I can easily find a religious community that will not exclude me for being heterosexual.
9. I am guaranteed to find sex education material for couples of my sexual orientation.
10. My masculinity or femininity is not challenged because of my sexual orientation.
11. When I talk about my heterosexuality in casual conversation, I will not be accused of pushing my sexual orientation onto others.
12. Whether I rent a movie or go to a theater, I can be sure I will have no trouble finding my sexual orientation represented accurately.
13. I am guaranteed to find people of my sexual orientation represented in the UW curriculum, faculty, administration and alumni.
14. I can walk in public holding my significant other’s hand and not have people stare, snicker — or worse.
15. My individual behavior does not reflect on people who identify as heterosexual.
16. In everyday conversation, the language used assumes my sexual orientation. That is, “sex” refers only to heterosexual sex; “family” refers only to one man, one woman and their children.
17. People do not assume I am sexually experienced because of my sexual orientation.
18. I did not grow up with games that ridiculed my sexual orientation (e.g., “fag tag,” or “smear the queer”).
19. My sexual orientation is not used as a synonym for “bad” or “stupid.”
20. People don’t assume I possess any mysterious means of identifying other heterosexuals (e.g., “straightdar”).
21. I don’t have to defend my sexual orientation.
"If you think this is just more fag whining (I’m accused of this each and every time I write about gay issues), then reread the last point and ask yourself what an opinion column pointing out the privileges heterosexuals enjoy by virtue of being heterosexual represents. Give up? It represents one more gay person being denied one of the many privileges straight people take for granted by having to justify his existence."
1. I am not identified — politically, socially, economically or otherwise — by my sexual orientation.
2. I do not have to fear that my family’s, friends’ or coworkers’ finding out about my sexual orientation will have emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual or economic consequences.
3. My sexual orientation is not used to exclude me from any profession or organization (e.g., teaching, the military, the Boy Scouts).
4. I am not accused of being deviant, warped, perverted or psychologically confused because of my sexual orientation.
5. I can go home from most meetings, classes and conversations without feeling excluded, attacked, ostracized, outnumbered, intimidated, stereotyped, dehumanized or feared because of my sexual orientation.
6. People don’t assume I know other heterosexuals just because they’re heterosexual.
7. People don’t ask me why I chose my sexual orientation, and they certainly don’t ask me why I chose to be open about it.
8. I can easily find a religious community that will not exclude me for being heterosexual.
9. I am guaranteed to find sex education material for couples of my sexual orientation.
10. My masculinity or femininity is not challenged because of my sexual orientation.
11. When I talk about my heterosexuality in casual conversation, I will not be accused of pushing my sexual orientation onto others.
12. Whether I rent a movie or go to a theater, I can be sure I will have no trouble finding my sexual orientation represented accurately.
13. I am guaranteed to find people of my sexual orientation represented in the UW curriculum, faculty, administration and alumni.
14. I can walk in public holding my significant other’s hand and not have people stare, snicker — or worse.
15. My individual behavior does not reflect on people who identify as heterosexual.
16. In everyday conversation, the language used assumes my sexual orientation. That is, “sex” refers only to heterosexual sex; “family” refers only to one man, one woman and their children.
17. People do not assume I am sexually experienced because of my sexual orientation.
18. I did not grow up with games that ridiculed my sexual orientation (e.g., “fag tag,” or “smear the queer”).
19. My sexual orientation is not used as a synonym for “bad” or “stupid.”
20. People don’t assume I possess any mysterious means of identifying other heterosexuals (e.g., “straightdar”).
21. I don’t have to defend my sexual orientation.
"If you think this is just more fag whining (I’m accused of this each and every time I write about gay issues), then reread the last point and ask yourself what an opinion column pointing out the privileges heterosexuals enjoy by virtue of being heterosexual represents. Give up? It represents one more gay person being denied one of the many privileges straight people take for granted by having to justify his existence."
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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