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I do. I think it's v. important. Like, v., v. important.

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In my opinion (just my opinion though) it is outrageous that gay people are denied the basic rights to marry whomever they love, which are rights extended to heterosexuals, in most situations. I respect it if you disagree though.
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Some people say that gay rights are a distraction from "real issues" but it's been demonstrated that without Gay support, Barack H. Obama would have lost the 2012 election. It's time for gay ppl (short for "people") to cash in their support, in my opinion.
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Gay equality must be won so that queerness can be destroyed.
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mongosteen posted:


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Its good.
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theres no such thing as gay rights
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it's ok but being uncritical isnt
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mongosteen posted:

Some people say that gay rights are a distraction from "real issues"


i actually agree with this, in the sense that removing capital interest from government should be the realest issue.

so many other issues would start to fix themselves after we fix that one.

i watched a cool ted talk about called lesterland, check it out

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html

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I think the thing that I like most about gay rights is how happy it makes gay people.
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LGBT as a movement may have been co-opted but that's no reason to set a low priority for gay rights.

would you set a low priority for the fight against anti-black racism because the NAACP and such have been taken over by Obamabots?
#13
things that gay people want to be able to do:

1. get married
2. join the Army
3. pay lower taxes
4. pass/receive inheritances without government confiscation
5. join the Boy Scouts
6. salute the flag
7. eat a sausage in public for once without hearing snide comments
8. Bravo
9. buy third world children, en masse, as pets
10. plague an entire generation of young women with eating disorders
11. play sport in nationalistic displays of American power
12. openly serve as members of US Congress
13. worship Christ
14. have healthy relationships with conservatives, aka parents
15. heil Hilter, at least in privacy of own home
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lol literally 100% of "gay rights" issues are just the openly homosexual community begging to be freed from leftist ideological obligations so that they can go join mainstream conservative society
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roseweird posted:

the movement is really badly degraded but at one point "gay rights" did actually mean like, "the right to not have your meeting places systematically stormed by cops who beat you and maybe rape you"



and the point where that became no longer true is called Class Victory

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the entire problem with identity politics under capitalism is that Victory is nothing more than a dividing line between pariah status, and unfettered access to Capital and the trappings of power, and thus no one is ever willing to declare that victory has occurred. its permanent capitalist revolution
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Sorry OP I only support divine rights.
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envy's a bitch
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Superabound posted:

things that gay people want to be able to do:

1. get married
2. join the Army
3. pay lower taxes
4. pass/receive inheritances without government confiscation
5. join the Boy Scouts
6. salute the flag
7. eat a sausage in public for once without hearing snide comments
8. Bravo
9. buy third world children, en masse, as pets
10. plague an entire generation of young women with eating disorders
11. play sport in nationalistic displays of American power
12. openly serve as members of US Congress
13. worship Christ
14. have healthy relationships with conservatives, aka parents
15. heil Hilter, at least in privacy of own home



Also instant access to high-definition downloads.

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roseweird posted:

yes, you are right about the movement as it exists now, i just want to keep the term in historical perspective, because it does stand for something



well you know what they say: if you dont stand for something, youll epic fail for anything

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roseweird posted:

also sometimes the police still do raid gay bars in new york



pure artefact of the War on Drugs

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they call it the "Stop & Frisky"
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roseweird posted:

yeah probably, gay guys have lots of drugs



god bless 'em

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one time i was on 4chan (idk) and this one guy kept posting these pictures



and talked about how gay people should have sex with 'straight' married rich people and then out them to ruin their lives, and to also to deliberately have sex with rich people if you have AIDS. i asked him if he used to post on lf and he said yes and immeditely started typing his posts without capitalization and used abbreviations like "b/c" and stuff.
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tentativelurkeraccount posted:

and talked about how gay people should have sex with 'straight' married rich people and then out them to ruin their lives, and to also to deliberately have sex with rich people if you have AIDS. i asked him if he used to post on lf and he said yes and immeditely started typing his posts without capitalization and used abbreviations like "b/c" and stuff.



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Angry. Extreme. Hostile. Savage. These are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe BIMBOX by those who fear it. And now those merely fearful will be horror-stricken to learn that BIMBOX has reorganized it's varied passions to exclusively concentrate on the absolute destruction of lesbian and gay culture.

For years we have been seething with resentment, and we falsely assumed that things would eventually change. We waited and tried to be patient. We attempted dialogue and we considered compromise. We even offered to negotiate, but all of our numerous proposals fell on deaf ears - bars are still segregated, women are still ignored, and men are still ostracized. We have been pushed to the absolute limit, and there is now only one option left -war.

Complete war. We will not tolerate any form of gay and lesbian philosophy. We will not tolerate their obsolete thought processes. We will not tolerate their segregated bars, books, bathhouses, magazines, music or films. We will not tolerate their voluntary assimilation into heterosexual culture. We will not tolerate their warped shallow twisted concept of feminism. We will not tolerate their appeasement of Christianity and the greedy white male corporate power structure. Furthermore, if we see lesbians or gays being assaulted on the street, we will not intervene - we will join in.
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So, um, I get this thing in the mail wanting "Fuh Cole" to place an ad in the 1994 Pride Guide and I just don't get it. I mean did these fools read the thing? It'd be like some bonehead asking the John Brown Committee to put an ad in the American Front newsletter. DUH!!! Little assholes. Look, whyncha just stick to what you know best: STDs, impersonal sex, child molestation, poppers and porn. Fuck you. xox dave
#39
So far I am pleased to see that everyone supports gay rights.
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