So what do you call what happened to that gay student in Laramie
Wyoming a couple of years ago, where he was tied to a barbed wire
fencepost and beated until he died. Or to the ten of thousands
homosexuals who died in the Nazi concentration camps during and before
the second world war? How many lynchings of blacks were there last
year? How many murders of gay people happened that were strictly
because of their being gay? According to the DOJ annual hate crimes
reports considerably more.
While gays have not suffered slavery and all of its attendant horrors,
gays have been jailed for being gay, castrated, executed (over 100
alone last year in Iran according to Amnesty International) for being
homosexual, and beaten. And it still goes on each day every day.
No what gays experience is not what blacks in the US have experienced.
Slavery stopped 140 years ago and discrimination based on race
officially stopped in the early 60's. What I mentioned happening to
gays is occuring NOW. If you are gay you can be fired from your job
for that reason alone, kicked out of your apartments, in many cases
being gay alone is reason enough to lose custody.
So you're right in some ways the experience is not comparible, in many
ways its worse.
larry
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:12:15 -0400, Monique Boea
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're wrong that gays haven't suffered serious discrimination.
>
> I didn't say they haven't.
>
> As a group of people tho, I don't think it can compare to what blacks went
> thru
>
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