Happy Birthday Harvey Milk

[malakijr]

It's Harvey Milk's birthday ("O my GOD shut the fuck up about Harvey Milk, dammit," said Lillian's entire friends list in unison) so in honor of that, please enjoy some quotes I stole from someone who stole them from someone else. :-p

“Let me tell you right now. I’ve got a real surprise for the gay community. A real surprise.”- Dan White speaking

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[nabba]

There are some good ones there and then just some that make me want to cry :(

[malakijr]

ICON LOVE.

Yeah, I was crying the whole time, too. That whole thread is full of things that make me go "blub."

[nabba]

Thank you, I made it so feel free to snag as long as you credit me ;)

What's even more sad that SO many people feel this way still (the negative stuff)

[malakijr]

What's even more sad that SO many people feel this way still (the negative stuff)I know. I think people think that homophobia doesn't affect them. I went to a conference in February, and at one of the workshops, the speaker asked the audience to play a game with him. He said he was going to read from a list of names, and at the first name we recognized as something we'd been called, we were supposed to raise our right hands. The second name we'd been called, raise our left hands. By the third name, we were supposed to stand up. So he starts reading from this list, and he starts spitting out these names: "Faggot, sissy, freak, queer, freak, fag, dyke, lesbo" etc. and by the time he got four names into the list, I was standing with both hands raised, and by the end, almost everyone in the room was standing with both their hands raised. Then the speaker told us to look around at everyone else in the room and realize that a lot of us had been hit with verbal assaults that probably hurt, but we were standing together. That was a big

[peskipiksi]

The one about realizing gay people are everywhere made me remember to post you this link about former Army Ranger Brian Hughes, who is pushing to repeal DADT. The part that stuck out to me most was where he explains that, when he was in active service, his unit lived in very close quarters - showered together, slept together for warmth, everything - and his buddies knew he was gay but did not give a shit, because they knew they could count on him to, y'know, save their lives. Or die trying. Just like any other Army Ranger

[malakijr]

Thanks for that link. Courage Campaign emailed me with that guy's story and asked me to send legislators a letter about DADT. I love sending out letters (and calling people...my name is likely on some warning list on a sticky note in Dave Camp's office, given the number of times I've called his office about various issues). I just love being politically active. :-p

Even in my deepest, darkest, most fundamentalist moments, I never really got why people were so afraid of gay people. Seriously, what the fuck?