You always felt different you could not place it. Your parents are same sex, every politician is in a same sex relationship. All of your peers that are around you are in same sex relationship. You realised some where along the way that you were attracted to the opposite sex. But, all you hear is those "breeders" are going to destroy the moral, societal, cultural, religious, fabrics that make GayLand great. These "breeders" are horrible amoral people who are psychotic and need to be locked up and medicated for their depravity. You go to church and the minister is behind the pulpit, "Heterosexuality" is wrong it is a sin, and heterosexuals got a very warm spot in hell waiting for them. Heterosexuals rape, murder, and abuse our children.
You do not have hate crimes against same sex couple you have hate crimes against opposite couples. An opposite sex couple is brutalised on the street corner and they hear and over "you go against nature", "you are dirty, nasty, breeders", "you are destroy GayLand".
You and others who are attracted to the opposite sex have to go to some seedy section of town to a bar to meet others like you. The homosexual norm finds out about this and they raid your bar and dehumanise you.
Your same sex parents find out you are nasty "breeders" and they send you to a reform school to reform your sickness. You can't marry, you can't adopt, you can't be seen together in public. You are breeders you are unnatural and not really human.
To you heterosexuals who are against gay marriage and gay rights how would you like to live in GayLand as I described it.
I came out of the closet a long time again. I had no role models, I had no heroes, I had no positive examples of what same sex relationships were. When people found out I was gay I did not have a name any more. I was just this little limp wristed pansy. There were days that I forgot my name. I thought for sure it was faggot. I have been beat down verbally, physically, emotionally, and why because I love a man rather than a woman.
How do you think it feels going through out your teens knowing that you cannot take your boyfriend to prom, homecoming, and so on. How do you think it feels to have to go to church and hear you are going to hell. How do you think it feels when you hear people equating you with rapist, murders, and child abusers.
How do you think it felt for the men who wore the pink triangles in the Nazi death camps when your liberators came, but they were thrown back into prison. The suffered horrific conditions in death camps and when the liberators came they were taken back to prison.
It is a really interesting read. I had never thought about this issue in the way that you have presented it.
I created this alternate reality to try to help facilitate the walking in the shoes that the average queer person has experienced in the course of their life time.
It is not a pretty picture is it. Those who are silent are as guilty as the person who goes out and bashes queers. Silence equals death.
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I should note that I tend to use the term queer because I do not have to use the alphabet soup that encompasses gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and so on. I use the word queer because gay has become to mean stupid in contemporary times.
Being gay I completely understand this point of view.
I think they have a movie like this, where they modeled a community as if the protagonist was an outcast because he was straight. Good movie.
And kudos for knowing about the gays during the Holocaust. My english teacher didn't even know about that and I had to explain to her the whole pink triangles, etc.
-HOPEOCEAN.
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Pink-Triangle-Life-Death/dp/1555830064
It is a wonderful read. it is heart wrenching, and it is a painful reminder of our not too distant ugly past.
It shocks me how few people actually know what the pink triangle means.