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May. 16th, 2011 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmYou 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.
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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Date: 2011-05-16 02:58 pm (UTC)For the rising of the
womenqueers means the rising of the raceOur 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).