RE: You can't be gay in the US
September 9, 2014 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2014 at 6:31 pm by Keri.)
(September 9, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Diablo Wrote: I don't care if the term is an urban legend or anything else. The fact is that faggots were used to burn people at the stake and that included gay men and women, and is a term of abuse used against gays much like 'nigger' is used against black men, and equally unacceptable.
I agree that it's unacceptable. I already said that I don't like that term.
(September 9, 2014 at 6:24 pm)Diablo Wrote:(September 9, 2014 at 6:18 pm)Losty Wrote: Wtf really? Now you're being a bit ridiculous.
All I see are are jokes about burning gays at the stake. That's not funny. I thought this site was reasonable, but with stuff like this going on I'm not sure now. There's certainly a lot of homophobia here.
I'm not aware of where people were joking (other than the video).
And I don't see where there is homophobia being promoted...
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871