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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aaaabbbb

So here is my question why should it be imposed on others if a country has a law, it is their law, who are we to tell them how to live and govern their lives? If those countries choose not to. I am struggling to understand grade 4 and 5 kids are being told by school teachers for them to be gay is okay, and they can share everything with them. Why if a straight person does not want to participate or share this life style is being sugjected to harrasment that he or she is racisit?

NicoleA · 26-30, F

@aaaabbbb
But they aren’t. No one is forcing anyone to be gay, we’re just for once telling them that it will be okay if they are

aaaabbbb

@NicoleA but this is something they do not approve for various reasons so why do you want to tell them?
Also most gay prides i have seen are R rated...as often paricipents act in really trashy way. It leaves no class and decency...

DarkHeaven ·

@aaaabbbb Telling people that they can’t celebrate who they are is pure repression, flat out. You can try to dress it how you want but it’s simply repression of people.

aaaabbbb

@DarkHeaven well the opression, repression, economical colonialism or warmongering colonialism it's all the same.

DarkHeaven ·

@aaaabbbb Yeah. All of it’s fucking wrong. Glad we agree.

aaaabbbb

@DarkHeaven we agree but we go and tell others live the way we want you to live..or just keep selling you black oil to us and keep buying our weapons to kill each others.

DarkHeaven ·

@aaaabbbb I ain’t selling shit, dude. I’m good, thanks. ☮️

DarkHeaven ·

@aaaabbbb And also way off topic to this particular thread.

IHateMyLife0MeDie · 41-45, M

@aaaabbbb I can see how someone who is even supportive of gay pride would be upset at some of the costumes and "clothes" worn at the parade. Some are hardly wearing anything at all. There are decency laws and they should be fined if they break it. I think they should be stricter with the dress codes for these. People bring their children, some very young, to these events.

I heard the parades can be different at different places though. So in another forum someone said that in Israel the people are dressed very appropriately, noone showing anything vulgar.

So I do think you brought up a good point. I'll give you a link to another forum that handled it better. https://www.quora.com/Are-gay-pride-parades-inappropriate-for-children

I don't undertsand what the other thing is you're trying to say though. They can express themselves as long as it doesn't infringe on other people. Are you saying people are being harassed for being straight? I don't understand.

DarkHeaven ·

@IHateMyLife0MeDie The point I’ve heard many times is some people feel infringed on by being exposed to it at all, so people of a different orientation have a right to express themselves as long as they’re not visibly expressing it or have nothing to express. It’s not that they are being judged for being hetro but that they are so appalled by seeing different orientation that they feel that they are infringed on simply by being exposed to any of it all in the first place.

DarkHeaven ·

@IHateMyLife0MeDie Those that feel that way would prefer us back in the closet in society so they can pretend that we don’t even exist. It’s fine for them to hold hands or kiss on the lips... just not us.