But here's another one for those still not getting the reality here. My friend sent me this in response to one of the threads I sent her. One of the posters attempted to dismiss the importance of LBGT concerns by saying that this wasn't the holocaust.
In order for people to see it as a tragedy it must take on the scales and proportions of the holocaust because its easier and more convenient to do so then face the truth that everyday the lgbtqi community is persecuted, harassed, oppressed, and labeled a social deviant. My family no longer speaks to me because I'm a gay rights activist, my job harasses me regularly because I will not submit, and I face the real possibility of being homeless with two children because I won't attach myself to a "man." but because there are no visible ovens, but plenty of metaphorically one, I should shut up and stop crying myself to sleep at night.
How bad do things have to get before we've decided they've "suffered enough" to "deserve equality"? How many people like Matthew Shepard have to die needlessly before the LBGT community is seen as having "paid their dues"?
And something even darker occurred to me- if things did indeed become as bad as the holocaust, what would the excuse be then? Would people still claim that "It isn't that bad"?
