discrimination is still rampant!!!

[rayosytruenos]

I’m more than shocked how two-faced people can be… I’ve seen it in a lot of places, proclaiming they don’t discriminate for your sexual orientation, but the truth is that still discrimination is rampant, sometimes on your own face (even if later they denied it, if you don’t have any proof), other times on your back… What can we do to change this? Do you think this ever will change?

On the following link you can read another disappointing story of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the U.S. military service:

http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10181

On this link, another married MP (Member of the Parliament in England) who resigns after a newspaper revealed his affair with a male prostitute. The MP blames his affair on his dramatic loss of hair!!!:

http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10178

U.S. politician says that Sir Elton John should be killed (and also Mary Cheney, U.S. Vice-president Dick Cheney’s daughter):

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-838.html

Gay star may be banned from U.S. Is it really for being caught in possession of class C drugs or because he is gay? What about all the other artists being caught with drugs?:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-991.html

Maybe I’m wrong, although it’s no excuse, but for what I’ve read in several places, George Michael seems to have been stalked by the police wanting to catch him, till they eventually did it in that Beverly Hills lavatory in 1998 by an undercover police agent posing himself as gay.

After all the scandal and media cover, his fame has never been the same. Many groups promoted banning him for concerts and pushed their adepts not to buy his songs anymore. Wouldn’t you turn into drugs after such persecution and hatred?:

http://marksimpson.com/blog/

It seems that we are not even safe in sites like this. Check what has happened to a few celebrities in the U.K. in the gaydar site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1097627,00.html

Check on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, if you want to know more about whom and what George Michael did on Hampstead Heath, when he was stalked by a photographer:

http://enjoyeverysandwich.blogspot.com/

Well, I was trying to find another link about another married politician who was forced to resign after he also was found to be cruising in Hampstead Heath Park, but I couldn’t find it. I think it was last year and he was, I'm not sure, the speaker or the secretary for Northern Ireland?

[jedinudist]

It pains me to say this, but I believe it is the truth:

As long as there are at least 3 people left on earth, there will be some level and form of discrimination.

We must do what we can to suppress it.

[ophelia_in_red]

We must do what we can to suppress it.

Better to eliminate it by elightening people and changing attitudes, surely! ;)

[Azrael]

That's screwed up, but sadly the reality we're stuck with. Enlightening people sounds like a good idea, but how does one go about this, aside from setting an example? It's a touchy subject for most.

[Reprob8]

The word the politicly correct throw around is tolerance, the natural assumption is that we have done something taht requires tolerance. Acceptance is the word I am looking for but if that is too much I prefer indifference to tolerance.

[ophelia_in_red]

I dunno.. Perhaps we could educate some religious people about their own holy texts? :rolleyes: Ah, it's probably an impossible fantasy.

[Azrael]

I dunno.. Perhaps we could educate some religious people about their own holy texts?
Now here's an idea.

[Herbwoman39]

I dunno.. Perhaps we could educate some religious people about their own holy texts? :rolleyes: Ah, it's probably an impossible fantasy.

Having been a practicing Pagan for 20+ years, I've TRIED that. Those poor souls don't want to be confused by the facts. :( Heck, my half-sister thinks I'm doing Satan's work because I'm a hypnotherapist and she doesn't even *know* I'm pagan.

Ya know, it's not freedom OF religeon, it's freedom FROM religeon. You'd think they'd know this.

[Herbwoman39]

Here's one for ya. I was just over on Out In Orlando and I stumbled across their phone book section. In the listings was an ad for a support group called "Over the River" that meets twice a month.

They say that everyone is welcome including (wait for it) all lesbians, gays, transgender people and straight supporters.

Now, can anyone tell me what's missing here?

AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <beats head against wall repeatedly cos she doesn't have the icon to do it for her>

[Driver 8]

In the listings was an ad for a support group called "Over the River" that meets twice a month.

They say that everyone is welcome including (wait for it) all lesbians, gays, transgender people and straight supporters.

Now, can anyone tell me what's missing here?
Sometimes (not always) the organizers of these things are just innocently clueless, and if you call them or write them, they'll change. PFLAG was very good about this in the 90s, as were some smaller groups.

If they give you blowback about "some people think there's no such thing" or other such nonsense, you can either try to educate them, or pass the contact info along and let someone else do it; sometimes it seems like there are bi activists who do very little besides make the case for inclusive language.

[qiangqiang]

The world advocates equality for all and no discrimination. But this is actually impossible. As jedinudist said: As long as there are at least three people left on the earth, there will be a certain degree and form of discrimination.


So we should try our best to suppress it. Let the world no longer discriminate! Suppress discrimination, start here (https://acmejoy.com/)!