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Barney's avatar

Good article Boomer! You should be.....proud!

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HistoryBoomer's avatar

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Martin Black's avatar

Sensible stuff

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Michael Haley's avatar

I wonder when the T got added, my recollection is that it is much more recent. In any case, I think that is why there is an upswing in hostility to Pride now. Also, it seems like they have tried to inundate children with things that should be adult. Finally, we seem to be talking about this all the time, one gets tired of hearing about it. I have always been an automatic supporter of gay rights, never gave it a second thought, some of my best friends forever are gay. Now I find myself unsympathetic somehow. I think they are taking this movement backwards.

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Benjamin, J's avatar

Quick Typo: Lawrence v. Texas was 2003 not 2013

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HistoryBoomer's avatar

Thanks! My buddy just corrected me on that one too! Typos!

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Benjamin, J's avatar

Wonderful article

One thing I try to make clear to people: the US is actually a quite welcoming place to gay people (in particular). I live in Cleveland, Ohio. I came out less than a decade ago, but I have never (once) in my life been called a slur. Only three people in my life have reacted negatively to my sexuality; the one I will mention was an Evangelical Christian who, I might add, never had the courage to say what he felt to my face (we work in the same industry and he will not speak to me).

That is NOT to say that homophobia/transphobia doesn't exist. Of course it does: but there are few places in the world 'better' to be gay than here, and I am grateful to live in the US happily married trying to have kids. I don't really go to Pride events much, but I fully support Pride. I find the disgust from conservatives baffling.

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HistoryBoomer's avatar

Glad you liked it! And glad that America has been mostly welcoming to you and your family!

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NonLinear's avatar

Indeed, it was Ronald Reagan who forced all those young mustachioed men to have anonymous fisting orgies and glory hole sessions with multiple different partners night after night after night at places like "The Mineshaft."

Back in the real world, when the SF government attempted to shut down the bathhouses in 1984, gay activist and lefty organizations prevented it, claiming the bathhouses would be useful places to distribute safe sex pamphlets . . . :-(. Luckily most of those gay activists are dead now, so they aren't around to kill anyone else with their libidinous foolishness.

By 1985, federal funding for AIDS research had reached $100M from a base of nothing, and continued to skyrocket during Reagan's second term, reaching a billion dollars by FY1988. To this day, at the behest of wealthy and well-connected gay activists, the Federal government continues to fund AIDS research at roughly an order of magnitude more dollars per victim in the U.S., thereby depriving straight cancer and diabetes victims of potential cures.

I mean, yeah, be nice to gay people, but it's often useful to know real history, as distinct from "The Narrative."

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