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[Gay Rights] Wyoming: What Republicans SHOULD be.
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That doesn't even make sense.
For instance, I heard about one that strips away our rights as a protected class vs discrimination. Not sure where it was. Can we expand the breadth of the next thread to include trans issues along with LGB?
Make a separate thread.
I'm sure it will be equal.
Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
how I can wed a woman but never a man
Do-do-do-do-doooooma
I assume they mean, the sounds of the words if ran backwards, because the letters clearly don't spell it backwards. But I've never tried to listen to "Yes we can" in reverse.
Because, I mean, I "tolerate" Christians; I don't really "tolerate" gay people any more than I "tolerate" black people, or women, or short people; I don't really begrudge their existence in any way, so I don't think that that really counts as "tolerance."
I guess there's not really a word for "don't particularly care about that facet of your being, other than it being used as an easy descriptor."
What? Like you're never talking about someone with someone else, and they don't recognize the person, and you say "you know, Todd; the gay guy?" Or "the Arab guy who's always standing near the explosives; you know, whatsisname."
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Wouldn't that sound more like . . . "Nack ee-wuh seh-yee"?
On the televised gay kiss thing, I also thought the first male gay kiss was on Will & Grace. Though Will Riker fell in love with and kissed that gender-neutral alien, that seems like it should be a first SOMETHING.
I do recall hearing somewhere that Jonathan Frakes was pushing for the actor playing the Alien in that episode to be a man instead of a woman so the plot would have more resonance. And that he was upset when a woman was cast because he felt the message was being lost.
So for a first something... How about first instance of me hearing about an artist trying to stand up and defend his craft?
I'ma steal this.
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That's a true story as far as I know. Star Trek actors have been pushing for controversial content to be included since back when Shatner/Nichols pushed for their kiss to be shown full on in Plato's Stepchildren.
It's the producers who are conservative, not the actors.
Actually, that was TNG. It was Crusher, and she fell in love with a symbiont. One of the first introductions to the species.
slightly topical: He's 80 today.
The original Star Trek producers or all the Star Trek producers (DS9, TNG, etc)? Because that episode I mentioned with Riker and the genderless alien species was an obvious metaphor about accepting gays.
On the TNG episode "The Host" Dr. Crusher has the hots for a male Trill and when the Trill gets a female host, she does not pursue the romance. Apparently Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) was pretty upset about this and thought it came across as homophobic.
But yeah, either the writers, the producers or the studio big-wigs really have it out for any LGBT characters on any Trek show.
TNG and DS9. I mean like was said, Frakes wanted a male actor to play that alien but that was shot down.
She was upset about it, and she pushed for her character to have some sort of an intimate goodbye kiss with the (now female) trill instead of the extremely awkward goodbye that they ended up having.
I do recall one change that was made for the better. Didn't Whoopi Goldberg manage to change one of the lines on the show because she was upset about the way her character was defining love?
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Then maybe you should check out one of the threads dealing with politics?
EDIT: Here's something.
US demanding gay rights support at UN body
http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba38a9ef22/Article_2011-03-21-US-Gay%20Rights/id-f9507a9df47c479c8117484b8c42fb07
While I'm well aware that I do have it better in the United States than members of the LGBT community in other countries I still can't help but roll my eyes at this and think of it as a "Do as we say and not as we do." kind of scenario.
You don't say.
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Hey guys, I felt that Archie Bunker was really homophobic. This seems topical.
African and Arab countries have consistently blocked any resolutions supporting LGBT rights or condemning homophobia, occasionally with Republican help.
Today Obama has called for the UN to battle homophobic discrimination. It will likely be toothless, like practically everything the UN does but it's a nice gesture I guess...
Nothing quite like good old victim blaming. Trying to concede to the bigots doesn't work, and in fact plays into their argument and worldview.
yes, can we please talk more about trans issues next thread?
You might be thinking about ENDA, it was introduced in 110th Congress by Barney Frank but it couldn't get out of committee with the Transgender protections included so Frank was forced to strip them from the bill. ENDA still hasn't been made law yet.
e: Do hope that bill passes though.
How come it's always the Christian groups? And then when anyone says shit about Christianity it transforms into "OMG PERSECUTION!!!1"
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Surprise surprise.
I just went and read a little about the app but I'm still not sure what the hell it does. How does an app help "cure" someone in the LGBT community?
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