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>You all continue to offend me by saying this.
Tough. You're right that it's not about skin color. You're wrong that gays haven't suffered serious discrimination.
>The ONLY right that gays do not have is to marry. It's not like they can't
>go into restaraunts, go to certain schools, ride the bus, they don't have to
>witness their partners being raped in the middle of the night, have their
>children taken from them and sold, get denied promotions, get denied
>apartments, home loans, get denied an interview and job because of the sound
>of their name or their skin color etc. etc.
Gays have been legally denied immigration to the US, specifically targeted and imprisoned by the Commission on Un-American Activities, denied education at certain schools, dragged behind trucks until dead, lynched, refused employment by a Supreme Court ruling, put into Nazi concentration camps and gassed to death and when Allied forces liberated the others from the camps they freed everyone except the gays who were made to stay and serve out their term, they were forceably dismissed from teaching positions, they are still denied the right to serve in the US military openly, beaten until hospitalized by their own parents, they are denied relative privledges when their partners are hospitalized, they are not recognized as the spouse to recieve their partner's estate. They are denied jobs, housing, loans, etc.
Just because they don't have black skin doesn't mean they haven't been discriminated against. Yes, some may be able to "pass" for straight. But "passing" was something a lot of light skinned black people used to do as well. And some gays just can't hide it. You look at them and say, "Oh yeah, he's gay." My partner's brother for instance.
-Kevin
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