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You don't even want to know what provoked this (but to say I am spitting mad at fandom is the understatement of the YEAR). HOWEVER:

Gay rights are everyone rights.

Really.

Even if you're straight.

Gay rights are the rights that mean you get to keep being a human being whether you're straight, whether you're queer, or whether your heart and your desire just happen to surprise you on some alternate Tuesday.

They're the rights that mean you don't have to worry about whether you look straight enough or enough like a boy or a girl (as "appropriate") to be safe.

And they're the rights that mean your friends or your kids or your parents or you know, anyone, gets to keep being a person too.

Gay rights are human rights. Human rights are everyone's rights, even when you think they are not directly relevant to you.

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So much this.

Hell yes.

*slow claps*

As we go marching, marching, we bring the brighter days,
For the rising of the ~~women~~queers means the rising of the race
Our lives shall not be lessened from birth until life closes,
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses.

Not being flippant; I believe those words with all my heart when they're about women and I believe them when they're about gay women (and men, and trans folk).

PREACH.

(Even if I wish we didn't have to. *sigh*)

Urg. I'm almost curious.

The fact that people still don't get this depresses the hell out of me.

I've actually just friended you, so you can see me ranting about that now.

YES.

Thank you.

Yes.

Roar on.

Typically when I do start on my 'quiet' rants in RL, I can't help but have it steadily escalate in volume and intensity until the listeners start wondering if they need to get sedatives for me before I completely flip out.

Also I'm friending you, I hope you don't mind.

I am sad that this still has to be said.

Gay rights are human rights. Human rights are everyone's rights, even when you think they are not directly relevant to you.

This.

And timely, because my head has already exploded today because apparently I pass well enough that it's ok to be homophobic in front of me.

Yup. And life can surprise you, too. (Speaking as the bi daughter of a woman who shocked herself when she chose a woman as partner after her husband of 19 years died - it really can!)

That you need to say this...aaaargh!

What hurts is when you ask someone close to you to support your movement for the sake of humanity altogether, and they still refuse because they don't like to be political.

Well, I'm "sorry" to say it, but right now, human rights are political. No way to avoid that one. So by saying you refuse to engage in the political, it's also saying you don't give a damn about my rights as a human, too. Thanks a lot.

That this continues to have to be said, over and over again, is disheartening.

Exactly. Thank you.

"...or whether your heart and your desire just happen to surprise you on some alternate Tuesday." YES

"And they're the rights that mean your friends or your kids or your parents or you know, anyone, gets to keep being a person too."

I love you more and more as these days go on~

Absofuckinglutely.

I never want LJ to be like Facebook, but if you had a "Like" button, I'd be hitting it now...

Always the truth. Never the silence. Bless.

Yes. And as sorry as I am that something prompted you to say this, Iam glad to see it said.

Absolutely this. Thank you for posting.

Hi. I'd like to share this - is it okay to repost? And would you want a link back here, or a quote with your name, or no preference?

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