Time for Stonewall Part II

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

:mad:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Kick.

[Rosie1223]

2. Link for Stonewall Part I

please?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Stonewall riots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

[LeftyMom]

5. please tell me you're not serious

[Bertha Venation]

7. It's possible not to know about Stonewall.

I didn't until I was nearly 30.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. 30?

[Bertha Venation]

12. Yes. I plead ignorance.

I didn't come out until age 24, and never had a sense of community until I'd joined a gay/friendly chorus in 1993, age 30.

[Rosie1223]

14. Forgive me for being ignorant

of glbt history. I thought I asked politely.

[DarkTirade]

36. Don't feel bad, I've been out since I was 19

and I didn't know what they were until I started posting over in GLBT.

I never really joined up with the GLBT community at all until I started coming to DU, so there were a lot of things that I didn't even know that I didn't know. :)

[KitchenWitch]

20. are you kidding?

[Bertha Venation]

4. Those fabulous people started something that I couldn't live without.

I'm eternally grateful.

I don't know if I could take part in something like the Stonewall Riots.

[Kali]

6. I could.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. I could

I've already been arrested protesting for gay rights once.

[Bertha Venation]

13. I could protest, and be arrested. No problem there.

It is the fighting and rioting that I'm not sure of.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Meh -- I like to fight

[Bertha Venation]

16. Well, the rest of my opinion won't be popular, Haruka

I think Stonewall II is the last thing we need. Stonewall woke the country up when most of it was sleeping. The country isn't asleep anymore.

I don't think this country would react kindly to rioting in this issue. I can't say what would happen, but I think it would set us back.

Humbly submitted.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. I don't see how playing Nice Gay has worked out real well for CA

Considering that Prop 8 passed AND California went for Obama, it stands to show that there's a bunch of people who need to wake the fuck up.

[Bertha Venation]

18. I didn't say "playing Nice Gay."

I don't think rioting would help. There are a helluva lot of ways to get down & dirty without causing bloodshed and damage.

Besides, the last thing I want to see happen in my home state is MORE rioting. Apparently we hadn't had enough after Watts; we had to go for it again after the King verdict.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Well, the way both Stonewall and the White Night Riots started is because of the cops

I would imagine if rioting was to happen again, it'd be because of cops.

I've seen how eager cops can be to escalate peaceful protests into violence.

[flvegan]

9. Personally, I think

it's high time to break out the masks and monkeywrenches. The GLBT movement needs to find her dark side.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I agree

[Parche]

21. Harrrrrrrrrrrrrrr uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuka

I am with you when and where?
:hi: :hug: :loveya:

But do you have to bring that Lost one? :rofl::rofl::rofl: :rofl::rofl: :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Yes, Lost would definitely be coming

[mentalsolstice]

22. Definitely! Just tell me when and where!

I'm pissed, I'm angry! Even though I'm an attorney, I can't wrap my brain around CA's decision...the majority can vote against inalienable rights for the minority, yet those who got in on the calendar are granted those inalienable rights. :wtf:? I was never a great, smart attorney, 2nd-3rd tier law school, C-average grades...and even I see so many holes in this decision.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. Exactly -- this decision is lame as hell

BTW, are you on facebook?

[mentalsolstice]

27. Lame is the word of the day!

TrophyWife to another loving trophy wife, no I'm not on Facebook, but maybe I need to be. Right now, my only social networking site is GoodReads.

But seriously, the CA decision is so much bullshit...okay so gay marriage is illegal, unless you got married between such-and-such date, and then we love you.

Feckin' bullshit!

ETA: Yes Stonewall, I know my history.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. I'm on GoodReads, but I hardly ever post on it

Facebook is the place to be. LostinVA and I are Facebook junkies.

[mainegreen]

23. I had to wiki 'stonewall'

:blush:

Interesting history. This is why I like DU. I learn something new every day.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Yep, that's what kicked everything off

[sasquatch]

29. Start burning Mormon temples

:sarcasm:
Start attacking the Prop 8 douchebags though and don't stop.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

30. I wouldn't know where to find one

[Ptah]

31. Look for steeples without crosses

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. Heh, I just looked it up for the hell of it

Apparently, there are only Hispanic Mormons near me.

[DarkTirade]

33. ... how does that work?

I thought it was only just a decade or so ago that the Mormons finally admitted that perhaps dark-skinned people weren't the spawn of Cain and therefore subhuman or somesuch nonsense?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. According to their website, teh one by me is a "Spanish" congregation

I guess they figured Central American immigrants were a good target.

[Ptah]

35. Mormons do not worship the cross

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

37. Umm...I don't think anybody actually worships the cross

I just looked it up because I've never seen a Mormon temple around here. Apparently, the only one nearby is Hispanic, and basically located in a store front.

[Ptah]

38. I think Catholics worship the cross

But, that's just my perception.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. Yeah, Catholics don't worship the cross

Born, raised Catholic. Know more about Catholicism than could ever possibly be useful.

[Ptah]

40. Well, my mistake then.

Sorry