I FEEL FOR THE LGBTQ PEOPLE

[reymega life]

the hatred towards them now is like the hatred towards black people in the 50s and 60s and I have great faith GEN Z and GEN Z+ GENERATIONS will put a stop to this hate and what's your thoughts?

[vercetti2021]

1. They can fucking hate me I don't really give a shit to be honest

I'm living my best life now. I got a very supportive girlfriend, family, and friends. I'm happy as fuck with my new body. Conservatives can go drink fucking bleach and die I don't give a fucking shit about what they do or what they say about me.

Also if they ever try to hurt me in any way I have a gun on me at all times so they'll be fucking around and finding out if they try something with me.

The next couple Generations are going to be fine with us going forward

[reymega life]

2. good for you

we need to reach a critical mass point to overwhelm the red state dictators though that ill be easy.

[Oneironaut]

6. That's awesome Vercetti! 🥰

[yardwork]

10. Living well is the best revenge.

I'm glad that you're in a good place now.

[applegrove]

3. I was at a kiosk at a government office. The person behind the counter had put

a little note with her pronowns on it on the counter. I was touched she could do that. Never seen that before. My sister reminded me of the scapegoating of lgbtq people of late and that burst my happy bubble. Two steps forward, one step back.

[Skittles]

4. I remember Anita Bryant back in the day

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I remember thinking, gay folk don't bother me but SHE sure does....her hatred was utterly sickening. It is very disturbing decades later to see this kind of sentiment being openly expressed by one major political party and its hateful base, UGH

[marble falls]

18. Just an unhappy, angry person.

[Skittles]

21. I remember asking my bf at the time, what did gay people ever do to her

he shrugged and said, "they exist".....that seems to be the same issue DeSantis and other repukes have

[marble falls]

26. I never got it. She was surrounded by gay technical people her whole professional life, ...

... you'd think she'd have learned a little compassion and understanding.

There is no right that any group has ever asked for that ever interfered with my own rights.

[BlackSkimmer]

5. That is just not the case. As a gay woman who came out in the 70s, I can assure you it has been much

worse.

But I did well in my life, never suffered career setbacks because of my sexual orientation, if anything - it helped me a couple times. OF course, I was called names a few times, but names never bothered me. I was so happy to have realized who I was that I could handle that with a laugh. I met ignorant, prejudiced people along the way, but so do we all.

As the decades passed, we saw gay people appear on TV and were thrilled beyond measure. I was never a soap opera fan, but we appeared even there I've been told. Books and music about the gay experience were written and old ones rediscovered. Athletes began to come out.

Gay movies were made, many of which I'll bet most here have never heard of, but we went to them in droves! Rocky Horror Picture Show, though a campy spoof, was a delight for gays and straights alike I went to many midnight showings, the only gay person in my group and we all had a blast.

If someone had told me back then that we would be able to marry our own sometime in the next few decades, I never would have believed it. Many prominent people came out as gay. Many, many of my friends began adopting children.

So the generation to which I belong did a HELL of a lot of work, as did the one just before me. How do you think we've come this far?

Things are much, much better than they were, and anyone who lived it can tell you that.
There is ABSOLUTELY no way to compare the treatment of gay people in the 21st century with the treatment of blacks in the 50s and 60s, no way whatsoever.

Please don't diminish either struggle with that kind of comparison.

[werdna]

7. "I have great faith GEN Z and GEN Z+ GENERATIONS will put a stop to this hate"

They are aware and they care. All who care will work together to rectify this horrible situation.

[yardwork]

8. My thoughts, as a white middle aged lesbian cis woman.

I live in a blue bubble in North Carolina, and very rarely encounter prejudice against gay folks in my personal or professional life. My workplace is strongly and vocally "woke," so if others have negative opinions, they would certainly never say anything out loud.

I'm legally married to my wife - something that was inconceivable for gay folks not that long ago. Our children and entire extended family love and support us. We have a wide circle of gay and straight friends. "Happy Mother's Day" texts are coming in from all over this morning.

I have a life that Lauren Boebert would envy. I look at her and other mean people and I feel sorry for them. Their lives seem bitter and empty to me.

I realize that not all gay folks are fortunate enough to live in supportive communities, with accepting employees and loving friends and family. Transgender people, in particular, are under attack.

The laws being passed against trans people and gender-affirming care are atrocious. So are the laws being passed against life-giving abortion care for women and children. The Republicans are hateful and I have no doubt will try to roll back civil rights.

I believe that the treatment of Black people in this country is horrible. There is significant racism, institutionalized racism. It's the single biggest problem facing our country imo. Until we acknowledge and address the foundational racism at the core of this nation, we won't be able to address anything else.

[Shermann]

9. Hey let's not sell Generations X and Y short

I think the black heart of old thinking from those is positions of authority still beats mostly with the boomers.

[yardwork]

11. Hey, this gay boomer says let's not judge people based on media inventions.

The idea that everybody in the same age group can be defined by certain characteristics is kind of silly. Sure, I recognize some of myself in Boomer definitions, but I also recognize myself in the definitions of all the other so-called generations.

[Shermann]

12. Fair enough

But the aging out of prejudiced thinking in America is a real and necessary component of progress. The OP didn't call out the boomers, but it is what it is.

[reymega life]

13. I think it ill be easy to defeat the anti trans anti lgbtq people like trump and de-santis

[BlackSkimmer]

15. "It is what it is".

We boomers fought for the right for women to play sports on their own teams, to be able to serve in all capacities in the military, to be allowed to love and marry who we want.

Who do you think did all that fighting for women's rights and gay rights? People who were not even born yet? Seriously?

Ever heard of Stonewall?


Ever heard of Billie Jean King? Kate Millet? Gloria Steinem? Bill and Hillary Clinton? John Lewis? Elizabeth Warren? Shirley Chisholm? Ever hear of the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves"? I doubt it.

[Shermann]

16. Well I'm a Gen X-er and I COULD list all the good things we have done

Instead, I accept the fact that in general, Gen Y is more progressive. And Gen Z is more progressive than them.

It's about the big picture. So, ease up on those triggers.

[BlackSkimmer]

17. Lol.

[Withywindle]

23. Unfortunately there are a lot of bigots who are young

As old fascists die out, there are younger ones stepping up to take their place. Waiting for the bad ideas to die out with generations has never really worked.

I'm Gen X, and I'm aware there is plenty of hate coming from people younger than me, and they've got the energy (and the gerrymandering and the guns) to roll back a lot of the progress that has been made if we let them.

[BlackSkimmer]

14. A lot of us boomers were out fighting for our rights before you were even aware we didn't have them.

Please.

[marble falls]

19. Still fighting. We never sold out, we never gave up and we were/are in it for the long haul.

[Demsrule86]

20. Don't kid youself...it is not just LBBTQ that will suffer and no the hatred is not the same as in th

50's and 60's. Things are better and we will stop the GOP Jihadists. Like Hitler, Trump/DeSantis will come for us all...even some who today support them. The story...they came for the Jews but I was silent, They came for the Black family but I was silent, they came for women but I was silent thus when they came for me there was no one left to stop them...fear for yourself...you and every one of us have a target on our backs...fight like your life depends upon it because it does. But I am confident, we will stop them.

[ecstatic]

22. Today I had an epiphany that it's all part of the rightwing's long game

to reset the USA back to the 50s and 60s. Women will be stuck in marriages with 5+ kids, men the sole breadwinner and leader of the household, and gay people forced back into the closet. At least, that's the plan for white people. I'm not fully clear what their plan is for everyone else.

[reymega life]

24. I doubt that

because I have great faith in gen z that they will vote out the villainy.

[roamer65]

25. Meanwhile in Michigan...

https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-elliott-larsen-michigan-whitmer-discrimination-6dab85a296020e9612ed417028b6cf09

I luv our guv and new Democratic legislature.