Ok, I'm pissed off again. Did you read this? http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061109/D8L9NREO1.html
I was appalled. Totally sickened. Being bisexual and living in the bible belt, I am discreet about my orientation. I don't want to deal with harassment or gay bashing. But in reading this article, I felt ashamed. For some reason, I feel like the gay community should be better than this. The reaction to threats of sodomy against the couple and their children is sick. I fully understand and condone the actions of the gay couple in this article who were taken aback by the notification that the business wouldn't meet with them because they won't work for homosexuals. If it happened to me I would do the same thing, e-mail everyone I know and tell them not to patronize the business. But for other people who heard about the incident and began with threats against the couple and their kids, that's just wrong. The gay community has called themselves "family" for a long time. Your gay friends sometimes become your only family when you come out because of the intolerance of straight people. Once I came out I've never denied what I was. Sometimes I don't announce it but I have never denied it. I have always felt that the gay community was always more tolerant of differences because of what it's members have had to endure on a personally level. So imagine how shocked and horrified I was to read about this response by some of the members of the community. Kind of leaves me with the feeling that maybe there's too many of us who are no better than the straights.