I'm not the only one speaking out.
Not by a long shot.
First, http://www.gay.com/, then openly gay Village Voice columnist Michael Musto (I'm ashamed to admit that Musto & I attended the same high school in Brooklyn NY) publish "op-eds" which inform all bisexuals that what they are isn't "real".
Thousands, including many of us who aren't
bi, express our disgust at such blatant gay on gay bigotry.
Thousands more are expressing their disgust with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who called anti-Marriage Equality Miss California Carrie Prejean a "dumb bitch."
No one agrees with what Ms. Prejean had to say, but we're just as tired of Hilton's (real name Mario) ugly brand of bitchy mean spiritedness. Hilton/Mario has been inflicting
this same shit on other LGBTs for years under the guise of being a "gay activist."
"I don't care if you like me or not," he said this past week. "I only care if you visit my site. I'm going to be as big as Oprah."
More LGBTs than not are tired of that kind of self serving, community be damned arrogance.
More and more LGBTs are complaining that they were intentionally ignored & shut out of the No on Prop 8 campaign, which they had wanted to support~~this was first reported by no less than the Advocate.
More and more are complaining that our "advocacy" groups routinely ignore cries for help from the community.
More and more LGBTs are demanding a real community.
No, it's not just me.
Yesterday, I saw a truly inspiring site. Molly McKay, a fairly well known marriage equality activist, stood with a male friend in San Francisco's Union Square, an upscale shopping district.
It was just the two of them, holding up signs & chanting.
They were celebrating the marriage equality bills that had just passed in Maine, New Hampshire & Iowa, and the new national marrige equality law in Sweden.
I stopped to talk to them, and told them that the community's lack of unity & support for each other had become a major bone of contention for me.
They both listened, smiled, and were very supportive. They were not going to sit around waiting for others. They were out there, talking to people, changing minds, making it happen.
"Be the change you want to be," Molly told me.
She's absolutely right.
David Alex Nahmod
SF CA
May 2009
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On the other hand, one does have to admire how Perez gave NOM a taste of their own medicine.
Like him or not, he's still one of us; and at the end of the day, when you have the two Barbies going after him they way they are, Pat Robertson implying he's a pedophile, and people "praying for him" which actually is code for someone to kill him, then one can be selective in their quest to stop gay on gay hate.
Pat Robertson said/implied that Perez Hilton is a pedophile? That I hadn't heard~~but Pat Robertson says things like that about everyone~~no one takes him seriously other than the most hardcore extreme right wing.
Remember how well Pat did when he ran for Prez~~he got a whopping 4%!
Robertson's an idiot & everyone knows it!
As for Perez, I don't get any sense that he really believes in the cause: it feels like he's doing this for the attention because he's so desperate to be a celebrity.
And he's been inflicting his particular brand of nastiness on other LGBTs for years!
See The Boys in the Band for a good look at how that kind of behavior has harmed our collective psyche~~it's time to say no to the bitchy queen mentality, which has held us back for years!
The common line from the christian right "I will pray for you" is always uttered while their own Spiritual Arrogance is dripping from their fangs. The line also conveniently hides the arrogance, judgement, condescension, and need to establish religious tyranny - at the very least. And what NG said - "Pray for you" implies an urgency to "fix". I say go "fix" yourself, but by "fix" I really mean F....
(OK - I'm really TRYING to not be angry)
The fact that Pat Robertson appears REGULARLY on MSNBC is disturbing - SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, is taking him seriously enough to book him on TV.
It IS time to bury the bitchy queen mentality - and the need to attack the PERSON instead of engaging in a conversation about what the person is SAYING.
THERE IS SO MUCH ANGER ON SO MANY LEVELS, but unfortunately we often direct it towards each other instead of towards our oppressors, which is tantamount to directing our anger towards our OWN mind and
body.
PS - My "word verification" to post was "Hymen" - make your own joke.
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