Marking the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing this year seems odd. In many regards, it seems as if the sentiments that led Timothy McVeigh to his act of domestic terrorism are similar to the rationalizations employed today by the tea baggers and other extremists.
The attack is equating being gay itself as a disease, not with AIDS specifically, and making an insinuation about how gays invade and take over. This positions the conservative/ family values types as the victims and the invasive infection homosexuals as the perpetrators.
DAY of SILENCE : April 16, 2010.
Do some straight men hate gays because gay men seem more free to fit whatever mold of masculine they choose? Some guys are more rugged and butch, others more flamboyant, and many somewhere in between.
On the one hand, there is little connection to Beaver Falls. Where everyone just knows that you can’t hold hands. And yet, on the other hand, it is the exact same hate at work in both places. There in the big city, someone decided to remind the queers that their visibility isn’t OK with everyone.
Joe Hoeffel’s postions are clearly very progressive and he is clearly a real friend the the LGBT community, but what has he actually done for LGBT rights? What can he list as his accomplishments? Where are the examples/accomplishments of his leadership on these issues?
The PFOX agenda is to tell a lie about what gay/straight alliances do and accomplish, and to perpetuate the lie that gay people recruit. And it is real youth, like CJ who are harmed by this malicious message.
I received a request to add the video clip of Lynn Griffen who spoke on behalf of Jack Wagner at the Steel City Stonewall Democrats endorsement meeting, to my previous post that included videos of Dan Onorato and Joe Hoeffel. So, I did just that. Here the link: https://thomascwaters.com/3838
If we fail to help and protect our growing families and our children, we also set our overall movement back.
We do not need to talk about homosexuality, but rather talk about being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transexual.