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The LGBT community have won partial rights and their pursuit of rights is necessary and ongoing. I'll point to silly, counter-productive efforts in North Caroli
by endswapper 10y ago
The LGBT community have won partial rights and their pursuit of rights is necessary and ongoing. I'll point to silly, counter-productive efforts in North Carolina for an obvious example of why it is necessary and ongoing[0].
Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act[1] and granting rights for same sex marriage[2] has done more for the LGBT community than any riot, or act of violence, or demand, ever has, or ever will.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act#Repeal_proposals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act#Repeal...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Unite...
- kafkaesq 10y agoAgreed, riots aren't necessary anymore -- but that's only because you're fast-forwarding by nearly 50 years. The anti-DoMA movement, the bathroom bills and all the other modern wins are but the culmination of a decades-long process. The prevailing opinion on the LGBT community is that they never would have gotten anywhere near to where they are now (or at least never would have without an unacceptably long wait) without Stonewall (or some similarly cathartic moment). That is, without a moment when those affected came forward to not just demand, but to claim and assert their rights when the situation called for it.