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I Support Gay Rights

I want to be as respectful as I can, but I simply cannot anymore.

Dear people, who think straight pride month is a good idea. I’m not bashing your opinion, I’m now just going to explain my point of view.

Please read:

It is illegal to be gay in 73 countries.

It is illegal to be gay in 73 countries.

That is 37% of the world.

It is illegal to be ME, in 37% of the world.

And out of those 73 countries, in 11 of those countries, my life would be taken away from me, I would be killed, for simply being me.

In 5% of the world, I would be killed for being me. It might not seem like a lot, but it is.

This wouldn’t happen in any country for heterosexuals.

We have pride month to celebrate that just recently we got the rights that we deserve as basic human beings.
For the past centuries, we have been disowned, discriminated against, oppressed, beaten, and killed for being who we are. And in 2016 we finally got the right to marry.

We are proud for coming this far.

We deserve to be proud.

Now, I am not ever saying that white people or heterosexuals don’t struggle, because everyone struggles in their life. But I am simply pointing out that they have never struggled for being white or straight. And the point of pride month, or black history month it celebrate us, the minority.

You guys have never been the minority, and most likely never will be.

Stop trying to turn everything into something for you guys.
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IHateMyLife0MeDie · 41-45, M
@NicoleA
I have no problem with Gay Pride month. I have a complicated take on Straight Pride month. There's usually some sort of conservative agenda behind it, and is a backlash towards Gay Pride. If you can divorce it with conservatism then I actually would have no problem with it.

The only Straigh Pride I support for now is the one in Finland.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_pride
[quote]Helsinki, Finland (2011): Contrary to most straight prides, the Helsinki gay pride march organizers themselves arranged a group called "Ylpeät Heterot" ("Proud Heterosexuals") as a part of the gay pride march for those heterosexuals who want to show their support for the march.[33] [/quote]

I'll just say also a person can be white and experience racism and maybe this can constitute as struggle for being white?. He or she can live in a neighborhood predominantly non-white and feel some isolation. I saw a documentary in PBS about life Barrow, Alaska. A girl there did not feel accepted because she was white. I'm not even sure if she's purely white, but she was half caucasian atleast. She brought it up and she dreamed of leaving the place.

Anyway I agree with a lot of your other posts. And even here I suspect we agree for the most part. Peace to you.
IHateMyLife0MeDie · 41-45, M
The documentary with the girl feeling isolated and not welcomed is from America Reframed: Children of the Arctic, Episode 4, Season 10