As you may have seen in a previous "snark" diary here, we gay people have been working to subvert the paradigm of heterosexuality in the United States.
The recent posting from droogie6655321 is clear evidence that LBGT outreach is working. If you're reading this, you're next.
Read further at your own peril.
At least, that's what someone somewhere probably wants you to believe.
There are people on both sides of the fight for civil rights for LGBT folks who want us to believe that the only people who would really be interested in fighting for our rights are actually lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered themselves. In other conversations with people last week, I learned from one person that the only reason we non-opposite-marriage folks finally have an ally in the White House is because (whispered), "President Obama is actually bisexual!"
Hoo boy. Wait'll Fox News gets a whiff of that one! Glenn Beck might have the most disgusting orgasm ever recorded on film.
On the other side are the folks who shame people who would otherwise stand up and speak out for what's right. When I was in school, if you stood up and told people to stop calling someone a faggot, the immediate presumption -- stated and not -- was, "Oh, so you're gay." I experienced that -- and was too scared to say, "Yeah? So what?"
And that schoolchild mentality is part of what works for the hate organizations. The National Organizations for Marriage and the Focuses on the friggin' Family and the you're-not-a-real-Family Research Council all count on everyday people and politicians alike not to stand up for fairness, justice, and equality because they fear being tarred and feathered by the high-dollar hate machines.
This is why families hurt so badly when one of their own comes out. Sometimes a parent's first concern, sadly, is more about what the neighbors will think of them than of protecting their child from the awful things this world wants to do to their newly minted baby queer. That was my experience. I came out of the closet: my family went into it. And they still haven't recovered.
When my family discovered that there was publicly available information online that made it unequivocally clear that This Arrow Don't Shoot Straight, you can only imagine the brouhaha that followed. Actually, you can't. But at least it forced them to decide to come out to a few other people...who, fortunately for me, looked back at them and said, "So?" It was probably the best thing that could ever have happened to my relationship with my family. It brought them partway into the light, but they still fear being seen with my husband and I acting like we're married people, and fear us being around children, too much to actually have a normal, healthy, loving, respectful relationship.
And so the child bit brings me back to our dear, formerly straight friend droogie. You're exhibit #1, pal -- Teh Gay is contagious! (By the way, you're just gay -- you can't be bi, but you already pointed that out. There's just no such thing -- Dr. Ruth says so!) While I and other notable fabulous folk here would like to take credit for the conversion (Cheers & Jeers is particularly obvious frontpage evangayism), you now have to defend yourself and charges that you're raising a gaylet. I don't know how you're gonna make it up there in Oklahoma. You need to move to, like, San Francisco. Or one of those other non-family-values-places, like Massachusetts or Canada. Stat.
Thanks for comin' out, droog. Welcome to the family. We're glad you're proud and it's my fondest desire that we each stand up for what's right for ourselves and others. I hope someday that our communities, online and off, welcome the reality of the myriad healthy sexualities that exist so that people can love each other and themselves with respect and equality.
Until then, I guess I'll let the haters presume I'm still workin' on that pink Cadillac.