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Nov. 12th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmWhile there are a hundred reasons why straight people openly specifying that they are straight and also support the rights of GBLTQ people to marry their partners is a useful thing, think of the power of this:
Just saying that you support it. Without mentioning your own damn orientation.
Because I know it's not always or even often distancing when someone says, "I'm straight but I support gay rights," but trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me, when I tell you that's what it can feel like from over here.
Just try saying it without qualification. Picture _that_ as an LJ meme. You know?
Just saying that you support it. Without mentioning your own damn orientation.
Because I know it's not always or even often distancing when someone says, "I'm straight but I support gay rights," but trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me, when I tell you that's what it can feel like from over here.
Just try saying it without qualification. Picture _that_ as an LJ meme. You know?
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Date: 2008-11-12 07:48 pm (UTC)I don't say that to make it seem like "this way" is right because it ISN'T.
I say this to say that I understand, as I watch mostly men make decisions about the legality of my body, as I read about women marching for the right to vote, so that men would change the laws, as I hold my breath and watch the Supreme Court, made up of people not like me, make decisions about me.
As a woman, an atheist, a progressive in a blue state, I understand. You are not a minor and your voice deserves adult, human weight.