Posted by:
MJ
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Date: March 18, 2011 11:12PM
I can't tell you how much time I've seen waisted over power squabbles between lesbians and gay men. It is so maddening and wasteful that we can't just fight our common enemy we also have to fight each other.
I think the way the Bi community has been treated by gays has made it difficult to motivate Bisexuals to work with us toward common goals. But hopefully that is improving:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50808681/2011-SF-HRC-Bi-Iinvisibility-ReportI felt ostracized by the gay community much of the time I have been out. I think lots of masculine gay men stayed away from the gay rights movement because they felt unwelcome, as I did. Few stayed around to fight for their place at the table.
In my opinion, the issues I have raised have almost all had a negative impact on the gay rights movement. To me it is a amazing that we have gotten where we are with all the petty crap that goes on between us.
But the gay rights idea is still very new. The whole movement really only got started in 1969. We have had a lot of growing pains and we have had lots of family squabbles, but we are growing into a community and culture that has a lot of positive attributes.
I just wish Harry Hay hadn't done so much to make the gay community all about flamboyance at the very start. It would have been easier for me if he hadn't
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2011 11:12PM by MJ.