Then Matthew Shepard happened. I was in high school. It I remember it being the first time there was this real, palpable sense of empathy from the media for a crime and how it seemingly reflected a changing time.
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OH! The other homophobic component you have to understand is the AIDS crisis. Not just because out it was identified as a "gay disease," but in how much anger there was at gay people for bringing it into the "normal" population and them "needing" to have safe sex now... yeah.
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I know that fear. Thanks for this thread.
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Thank you. The whole situation with Jussie and having found out what's happening on the internet is just...so weird and sad. I don't even know them and I can immediately just so deeply empathize. Thanks for sharing and really talking about this.
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Thanks for sharing this
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You rule. You say awesome, correct things. To everybody who these words resonate with, who braves the world while there's assholes who like to hurt others, know that you rule, and you are awesome too. Best of luck to all of the good people, keep existing because you're wonderful.
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Thank you so very much for posting this, and also for all of the other amazing things you write.
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I was home most of the day, not really aware I was "hiding". I'm a strong woman, I'm successful, & still. At home all damn day. Remembering the times I've been bashed. Thinking of friends who died of AIDS & one who was gay bashed to death. I needed your thread. You're loved, too.
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This story (and similar) is why aiming just for ‘tolerance’ was always, at best, weak sauce
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