UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN GAY is No Fairy Tale : In other words, contrary to what many of our complacent, sheltered straight neighbors experience, our lives are based on the truth...

Why We'll Beat Out the Anti-Equality Dinosaurs in American Politics

¨I feel lucky to be a gay man. Not just because of the fabulous humor and how much easier it is to get laid, but because being gay in this society means you’re forced to be self-reflective, to examine your life, goals, and preconceptions and to figure out what you really believe. Gay people do not have the luxury of relying on stories they’ve been told by their parents, priests, and politicians; we learn early that life is no fairy tale and we’d better figure out for ourselves what’s real and what sort of people we’re going to be if we’re going to be happy.


In other words, contrary to what many of our complacent, sheltered straight neighbors experience, our lives are based on the truth. This is a great and invaluable gift, and it’s the silver lining that, in my opinion, completely outweighs the heavy clouds of discrimination, mistrust, and outright hatred we sometimes suffer.

But that doesn’t mean those clouds don’t rain on us. We might have thought, in the past few years, that our society was growing up and putting its past hatreds behind it. Growing numbers favor marriage equality. The federal courts are ruling that there is simply no societal interest in discrimination against the LGBT community. And overwhelming majorities of Americans, both military and civilian, want "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" repealed. HERE

But it turns out there are still a few schoolyard bullies who just love to hate us, and who are still blinding themselves to the fact that equality and respect are the real foundations of our country (rather than their artificial construct of what a family looks like or any religion’s specific beliefs.)

Bullies hate for hate’s sake; they don’t beat up on weaker people because they really believe those victims are evil. They beat up on people simply because they like beating up on people. And because they believe it’s their path to success and proving themselves...¨ there´s much more HERE

· Thanks to Cristian Asher 
· Thanks to Gay Rights/Change.Org, sidebar (cross posted)
· Thanks to The Hill
· Thanks to Scientific American