And what exactly are we supposed to do in the meantime? Sit here quietly with our hands folded, go along with their assumptions and wait until they decide that the queers in the corner can come and be acknowledged with the rest of them?
In an ideal world, there wouldn't have to be. But in this country, in this world? We need to come out. We need to have GLBT history month, because otherwise we don't get history, or if we do, it's one paragraph in a nice purple-shaded box in the history books next to the green-shaded boxes for black history and the beige ones for women's history, while the rest of the book is filled with white, straight men. And we have a fucking right to be proud for even coming out of half the shit we go through alive.
If we don't set ourselves apart, that doesn't fix anything. People keep assuming, and we're still marginalized - just ignored at the same time.
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Date: 2007-10-11 08:21 pm (UTC)In an ideal world, there wouldn't have to be. But in this country, in this world? We need to come out. We need to have GLBT history month, because otherwise we don't get history, or if we do, it's one paragraph in a nice purple-shaded box in the history books next to the green-shaded boxes for black history and the beige ones for women's history, while the rest of the book is filled with white, straight men. And we have a fucking right to be proud for even coming out of half the shit we go through alive.
If we don't set ourselves apart, that doesn't fix anything. People keep assuming, and we're still marginalized - just ignored at the same time.