Acceptance
Friday, August 05, 2005
Nothing pisses me off more than a queer who thinks the way to acceptance is for the flamboyant among us to be neither heard nor seen! I'm sorry, do they realize how incredibly, incredibly WRONG they are? Probably not.
Seriously, maybe I could site studies about how the more queers a straight person meets, the more likely their perception of queers is to be favorable? Maybe I could point out that were it not for some Drag Queens and Big Butch Lesbians at a bar in NYC in 1969 we wouldn't have the current Queer Rights Movement? Who knows, but in my humble opinion, we aren't going to get anywhere as a group unless WE QUEERS can accept each other for WHO WE ARE and not WHO WE WANT ONE ANOTHER TO BE.
This piggy backs on something we talk about her at this University in Safe Zone sessions. "If you want me to think that you are not ok with heterosexism, don't be afraid to be not ok with some other 'ism' like racism, sexism, or classism." The more accepting we can be as a society the better we are all going to be.
Bottom line, I am by no means a flaming queen and I work for acceptance and rights for GLBT persons both on campus and in my daily life. Therefore, you won't have to be a flaming queen to input your two cents either. I want to see you there fighting, speaking out, and being yourself just as much as I enjoy seeing the more flamboyant of our fellow activists doing the same.
posted by ZEUS @ 8:13 AM,
