(no subject)

[rm]

While 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?

Comments

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, I come at it slightly from the opposite direction. I am bi, but my family and most of my friends don't know it. And I am very, very vocal about gay rights. So I sort of feel like I should be appending, ''and I AM queer'' to the end. But I don't. SDER.

But that's just me. I see where you're coming from, not that it's always bad but when it comes with the suggestion that ''I support gay rights but still am not really okay with gay people'' as opposed to ''I support gay rights even though it doesn't personally affect me''.