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I don't like the Pride slogan "Love is love".

Some LGBTQ people are not in love. Some don't even want to be in love. I think it implies that LGBTQ lives are only acceptable if they are in or seeking a loving relationship.
New suggested Pride slogan: "Mind ya damn business."
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I don’t agree at all, baby. But I understand what you’re getting at. In my humble opinion, if I am in love (assuming I am,) then my love is no less valid a love simply because I am a woman that loves a woman. It’s not that any orientation has a lock on love but more so that my love is no less valid because it doesn’t assign to the orientation gender roles society has tried to make for me.
PoizonApple · 41-45, F
@DarkHeaven yes, of course. But you're an LGBTQ person even if you're not in love and your rights still count even then. That is my point.
@PoizonApple totally. And I knew that’s what you are getting at. I just feel that it all begins because, who we choose to love... is being told to us, that it’s not allowed. And love is love, regardless of some of societies misconceptions of how that should look.
@PoizonApple No one would even know that I am LGBTQ, until I decide to love, to date, to give myself to someone else. Only then, it’s a problem. So, although society has given me this label, my label only matters when I love.
@PoizonApple And love is love, regardless of orientation.
PoizonApple · 41-45, F
@DarkHeaven but how about for people who do present in a way that identifies them as LGBTQ?
@PoizonApple It’s hard question, because outside of gender assignment, only your sexual activity identifies you. What is acting gay? It’s nothing. We’ve had fem straight guys and butch straight gals, all through history. You’re only LGB... if you are attracted, want to have sex with, and are romantically in love with your same gender. It’s all about love, or the act of making love at least. Gender assignment is very different. The love is love, is less applicable. Their issues are very different and much more difficult in my opinion. There is less understanding and acceptance, even within the LGTBQ community. I have many friends here that are trans, and I’m known as a Cis Lesbian ally, because there aren’t that many. It really fucking sickens me. We should be better. We’ve had to fight for acceptance and we should know better. Love is love could, kind of apply, as in loving each other and then it fits for all. Love sees no birth assigned gender, no hetero assigned birth roles. We can just love each other... regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or assigned gender. Because love is love, baby. Period.

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