In Australia, I would cringe every time we used 'suicide reduction' as an argument for Marriage Equality, even if some portion of it may be alleviated, that main argument should have been because it is fair. p.s. - I am gay - so don't come at me queers.
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Replying to @Samuelschmamuel @jessesingal
I'm gay too, and this shit irritates the hell out of me. I no longer am convinced these activists and sensationalist journalists have good intentions. They are just angry vindictive people who need a villain in order to justify their entire worldview.
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I think social media disincentivizes a more rational goal-oriented, long term approach. You see this across the board, literally all left messaging seems designed to me counterproductive. I’m on the left myself, its depressing
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I'm kinda proud of how gay & lesbian rights were achieved before the internet, overall we never blamed other identity groups like heterosexuals, we asked for our rights repeatedly, with reason& won people over. There was not much shouting at a dominant identity group & demonising
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Replying to @Samuelschmamuel @whitefeeIings and
Are you out of your goddamn mind? Or do you have absolutely no portion of a clue about the history of gay rights?
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Replying to @tessmissing @Samuelschmamuel and
The history of gay rights is told by activists and organizations whose entire existence revolves around needing a struggle. Early advances in gay rights were mostly due to the radical activists, but for the last decade they have doing more harm than good.
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Replying to @colorblindk1d @tessmissing and
I see the weirdos who think Andrew Sullivan actually gave gay marriage to an ungrateful nation (and did so veeeery slooooowly) are still around
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Replying to @arthur_affect @colorblindk1d and
Act Up changed the national mindset on AIDS funding by holding extremely loud demonstrations and chaining themselves to things for a decade. It took that to build things to where mainstream support could flip. To say that trans people have to suffer abuse with kindness is silly.
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Replying to @tessmissing @colorblindk1d and
I was literally right there on the ground when Prop 8 passed in California and there was MASSIVE consensus that the No on 8 campaign was a repulsive embarrassment The movie Milk slyly acknowledged it by having Harvey Milk make a comment about early ads against Prop 6
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tessmissing and
"How are you gonna run a gay rights campaign afraid to say the word 'gay'? How are you gonna fight the Anitas and say you're not here to fight anybody?" Mealy-mouthed nonsense ads about "Discrimination is always wrong, California supports openness and tolerance"
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The Prop 8 campaign was one of the most decisive and resounding defeats for your brand of politics in history, but far from the only one We only got from there to where we are today because after '08 activists said "Fuck this shit"
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