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[skull_bearer]

So there's all this wanking on about this gay rights meme going around, I'm not sure what the fuss is about (retarded as usual), I get that kind of shit all the time of Yahoo, and I just ignore it.
Anyway, in that vein of thought, here are some of my favourtie gay rights quotes:

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?  ~Author Unknown

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.  The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.  ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982

When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys. ~ Andrew G. Dehel

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work:  "Hello.  Can't work today, still queer."  ~Robin Tyler

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity.  All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.  ~Rita Mae Brown

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.  ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.   ~Susan B. Anthony on Selective Bible Quoting

"Don't let the people who live on fear and hate govern how you live."--Melissa Etheridge

Comments

[analia-the-1st.livejournal.com]

I love those, espcially the Robin Tyler quote. I don't get the meme things either.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

That one was hysterical. I also like the Rita Brown ones. Have you read any of her books? She's brilliant.

[halokitty69.livejournal.com]

Interesting quotes, but a lot of them seem to be based on an assumption of love.

What happens when someone doesn't believe in love?

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Umm... I have no idea. I guess it assumes that most people do believe in love. Most people I've met do.

[halokitty69.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm just a cynic ^_^

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Me too... Love is not very much a real-life thing. But even if it's just about sex, everyone has the right to have it with whomever they want, at least in my opinion.

[halokitty69.livejournal.com]

Yes, thats true.

I have a problem with the whole love thing. I am, shall we say, both ways inclined and I once said to a friend 'how am I supposed to know who to date' and she said 'whoever you fall in love with'...but I don't believe in love lol.

I am jealous of SkullBearer's Raistlin and Dalamar though...I wish people really *felt* like that IRL.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you... *deeeeep sigh* It's pretty much the same with me.
And reality never matches books (or perhaps I don't like the kind of book that is too much like reality).

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

The worst thing about this meme/chainletter/whatever-thing is, that it shows that something is quite wrong with our society (hah, as if we didn't know). If a thing that should be quite natural and a matter of course is discussed so fiercely, there is /always/ something wrong. No sane person would admit to be against (for instance) women's rights, either. You wouldn't need to post some five lines written by anyone else there to prove that women's rights are something you firmly believe in. People would be surprised (at least) to see you saying something against it.
I tend to ignore these chainletters anyway, beacause I have no idea what people who so busily try to talk a guilty conscience into you to make you pass their mails on without gaining anything (at first sight) get out of all this. There must be any gain, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Things like that wake my suspicion.

[halokitty69.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this meme or chainletter or whatever it is, but it does really bug me that people feel the need to shout about the whole thing. As long as people make a big deal about being different they will be seen as different. Its not something that should be shoved in people's faces, its something that should just *be*.

I feel kinda strongly about this cos I used to be in the LGBT society at uni and the way they shout about the whole gay rights thing really bugs me. Also they tend to ignore the confused people who join their society because they are scared and want someone to understand.

Plus LGBT societies claim not to stand for discrimination, yet I have seen plenty of evidence of them discriminating against other people. It's just no one is allowed to discriminate against them. I was once told that I could 'snap out of depression if I really wanted to', and that seems pretty fucking discriminatory against people with mental problems. No one expects them to 'snap out of' being gay. Grrrr.....angry now....

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

It's annoying to see people who have been discriminated themselves do the same to others. They, most of all, should know better.
I mean, look at all those gay racists and Jewish homophobes out there. I'm not the most tolerant person at all times myself, but at least I try, because I've bitterly learnt what it feels like to be looked down upon.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

was once told that I could 'snap out of depression if I really wanted to', and that seems pretty fucking discriminatory against people with mental problems.

The problem is that people who haven't experienced depression don't know what it's like. Someone I know used to be pretty suicidely depressed, and I never quite knew what to say because deep inside I couldn't help but wonder if they were just too weak to face up to reality. Which is comeplete bullshit, I know, and I would never say it out loud, but nevertheless...