via National Sexuality Resource Center, by Christopher White(thanks to
Trevor Hoppe for putting this fabulous rant on the LifeLube radar)
Excerpt:
But back to the issue of straight people in queer space. Some straight people have spent a great deal of time and energy hurting us. As young children, we were called names, bullied, assaulted and told that being queer was pretty much the absolute worst thing that a person could do or be. We fought to overcome feelings of shame and guilt about our sexuality and had to come to term with who we are and who we love and who we want to have sex, often at the cost of family, friends, financial resources, and much needed love and support for some. As we have gotten older and gay rights, issues regarding AIDS, and marriage equality debates have played out on the national scene, we have had to defend ourselves from bad science and lies that insinuate or just stated that we were disgusting, sinful, sick pedophiles who were to blame for the downfall of this country and society. And the expectation was that we would just keep fighting and fighting and fighting taking blow after blow. Never give up.
Read the whole item.
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