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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 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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).
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Date: 2011-05-16 02:58 pm (UTC)(Even if I wish we didn't have to. *sigh*)
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:16 pm (UTC)The fact that people still don't get this depresses the hell out of me.
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 04:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 06:11 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-05-16 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 06:50 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-05-16 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-17 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-17 02:36 am (UTC)"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~
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