Here's the repost. I've lost all the original comments, because one commenter used their real name and they're afraid it will negatively affect his job search.
Newsflash: Banks failing and high unemployment rates accompanied by lay-offs will affect your job search more than being homo. Grow balls.
Warning for everyone else: Don't use your real name unless you are totally open and brave and out and don't care what people think about you and enjoy using run-on sentences for dramatic effect.
I've been kind of railing about this for a while, so I decided that I would break up my thoughts on The Gay Agenda and what I believe it should be into topic areas:
Career: Make lots of money, so that we can afford spray-on tans, Louis wallets, jettas, a weho apt., and getting drinks at The Abby. Career goals typically consist of some kind of talking w/ little sincerity, cuz we're good at that. Public Relations, real estate, and retail top the list of careers.
Areas I'd like to see more gay voices: Television and film, education, politics and parenting.Politics and Identity: Appear as un-gay as we can. Whether we like it or not, the U.S. is based on the majority opinion. This doesn't mean the majority can not be swayed - see Canada, Spain and Switzerland. Instead, we watch as our rights are trampled on every day - state by state. Instead of swaying people, we sit back and blend. We thank people for not beating us, for not calling us fags to our faces and for laughing
with us. There's pride in calling ourselves "straight acting".
Why in the hell would you want to act straight? I don't have a huge problem with describing one's self as "masculine", though it's not my goal, some homos really are. The majority, though, aren't. I only ask that you be honest about whether or not you really are masculine. In my experience, you tend to be gayer than designer leather sandals. You know, the Italian ones that have a hoop for the big toe. Yuck. If you get facials, wear Abercrombie, dab a little gloss on your lips, use more than one product in your hair, and, oh, SUCK DICK, you are failing miserably at acting straight. On top of that, you're not fooling anyone.
Here's the thing: We're blessed to be gay. It gives us a point of view not enjoyed by the majority of humans. It gives us the right to be different, break the rules and share our unique perception with others. It also gives us the duty of defending our American rights for each other and those poor scarf-wearing, highly fashionable, precocious youths who are just absolutely unaware of how freakish they're gonna feel when puberty hits. So, give up the "straight acting" shit and accept the intense responsibility that we were given, bitches.
It's going to be very hard, because we are outnumbered and once homo-legislation of marriage, finances, and discrimination against homos hits the ballots, all the old bittys come out of their shacks in the woods and are picked up from the convalescent homes in buses to vote for the first time in 30 years, so they can protect "family values". No one said change would be easy.
Family: Okay, so we all had issues with our family. Some are resolved, others are ongoing. That doesn't mean that you aren't worthy of partnering up and raising kids of your own. Studies have shown that children of gay parents show the same amount of social and educational aptitude as children of straight parents. I feel the more we can teach young people acceptance of others who are different, the better the future lies for homo Americans. As with anything that involves change, this has to start at home. You're afraid? Fear is only your mind telling you that something is new and you probably need to do it. And all kids think their parents have ruined their lives at some point. They'll come around. Now, with anyone gay or straight, there are those that don't feel the paternal/maternal feelings or know they are too selfish to give what raising kids needs from them - you shouldn't have kids. No judgments: send me pictures from Aspen. Everyone else, please consider raising an awesome, open-minded, culturally rich family.
Read about APA FindingsVolunteerism: Work, the gym, a social life. Pretty much what most gay people consider being "busy". Now I believe that in most cases "busy" is a state of mind and we've convinced ourselves that there's no space for anything else. Every American should volunteer for something, but homos need to include themself even more in the community around them. I believe you should have at least 2 major things that you do: work and one other thing that gives to others. Organizations are in desperate need of free help due to shrinking budgets. One nite a week, a couple hours on a weekend. Just do something w/o asking for compensation except the joy that you are helping someone out there - somehow. Your time is money, a lot of money for some homos, so just think of how much you are giving to these organizations by giving them just a bit of your time?
If you want to look into volunteer opportunities.Do I practice what I preach? I definitely try. I currently work full-time producing television and I attend grad school full-time getting a masters in writing. Before I returned to school, I volunteered as a literacy tutor for children and adults. Now, I participate in one-day volunteer events whenever I hear of one. I write primarily gay fiction and gay screenplays with the goal of putting quality, 3-d images of homo main characters into the world. Having a partner and children is one of my major goals.
Okay, stepping down from soap box. Whew, I'm exhausted.
Today I watched:
Everyone
Then had MTV on in the background - Date My Mom (A gay edition, it was kinda embarrassing, but I watched anyway.), Room Raiders, Real World.
I detest him. I find him absolutely fake - musical theater dressed up as rock. A Hot Topic dream. An outdated asymmetrical coif. The ideal picture of cool sold to housewives, Urban Outfitters at Mall of America, the Skechers-wearing types - basically middle-America.
