Gay Rights

[johnny9fingers]

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Okay, that's me agreed. But I would have thought most folk know my opinion on such things anyway.
 

Comments

[tripinthehead33.livejournal.com]

I'm of the belief that I shouldn't have to wave a flag stating that I am OK with gay people in order to be that way. I'm OK with them, always have been, and just like I don't go wearing straight pride stuff, I don't do the same with gay pride stuff.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

If someone on LJ wants a headcount they can rely on me in this case. I don't do straight pride stuff either, but I do memes....and this seems sort of similar. I saw it on my flist and I will no doubt see it again in the same place.
Each to their own: I'm just in a stand-up-and-be-counted mood.

[darkblood777.livejournal.com]

With gay pride we have to express our gay pride for recognition. If we don't then we are doomed to be hidden and forgotten.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we're all getting beyond that excepting in certain backwaters. Folk are folk: damme that some should be ignorant. I reckon them's my prejudices.
But as of now, I'm much more into standing up and being counted than being part of the silent majority, many of whom will agree with the statement, but would prefer it not to be spoken of at all. Many folk with gay relatives adopt a 'don't ask don't tell' policy. Though they want the relative in question to be happy they are still uncomfortable with the 'social' implications of being gay.
Most folk ain't brave, in the sense of having the moral courage to go up against their peers when they know them to be either wrong or unjust. The man that can be more heroic in battle than it is possible to imagine may still be afraid of social censure, or even eternal damnation.
When lines are drawn (though they shouldn't be excepting in particular cases) I have a need to know which side I'm on. Never mind other people's positions.