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i'd like to think we've gotten past this kind of shit, but my senses tell me we've yet a ways to go. RIP AT. everthing i've read suggests he was a really nice
by enlore 13y ago
i'd like to think we've gotten past this kind of shit, but my senses tell me we've yet a ways to go.
RIP AT. everthing i've read suggests he was a really nice man.
- paul_f 13y agoThis was 70 years ago, I think we're past it
- jimhefferon 13y agoIt will come back, given half a chance. Sadly, progress must be defended as vigorously as it is won.
- graue 13y agoHomosexuality is no longer persecuted as a crime in the industrialized Western world. However, if by "past it" you mean homophobia no longer exists or is not significant enough to worry about — absolutely not. This story of horrific treatment of gay teens in Anoka, Minnesota, near where I used to live, comes to mind: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-g...
- ecopoesis 13y ago41 US states don't allow same sex marriage. In 2012, we had a serious presidential candidate (Michelle Bachmann) who runs a "gay conversion therapy" business. We are not past this at all.