christiannightmarestoo:

Anti-gay youth group leaders try to keep a girl from her gay dads

This incident still angers me for many reasons. My dads are gay, and when I was younger, someone at my school invited me to a youth group event. When I got there, they spent most of the time talking about how gay marriage is wrong, and it made me really uncomfortable. So I said, “I’m not feeling good, I’m going to call my dad to come and get me.” When the classmate that had invited me told everyone that I have two dads and they are gay, all hell broke loose. The youth group leaders freaked out and said that I wouldn’t be calling my dads. In fact, they did not want me to leave. They tried to get me to see that my dads were sinning, but I told them I wanted to leave and that I disagreed with what they were saying. I remember being in tears, scared and wanting to go home.

I went into the bathroom and called my dads. They were pissed and came to pick me up. My one dad called the police when they got there, as the youth group leaders would not let them get me. The police went into the church and brought me out. Charges were not pressed but I refused to go to any more of those youth group events. Thinking about it now still bothers me, I shake when I think about it. – Name withheld by request

lady88:

It still shocks (and mostly just disappoints) me how SHOCKED people are when I tell them that it is 100% legal to be fired simply for being gay.

They look at me like I’m lying and say things like “nooooo, that can’t be right?”.

I have been fired twice (in Ohio) for being openly gay.

I have been asked:

• to not wear my wedding ring
• Not acknowledge my wife’s existence
• To “just say you have a husband”
• To just not answer “yes” when people ask if I’m married because “you’re not REALLY married”
• To not bring my wife to the company FAMILY Christmas party
• Let people just assume we’re sisters
• Just make it easier on everyone and “just say you’re divorced”

These were not requests made from some Mom and Pop shop, I was a corporate executive for a large chain of high volume restaurants. My boss was the Director of Human Resources, and she would walk into my office and say the most ignorant things you can imagine.

People in America need to be educated on the reality that is life as a gay person in  this country.

It’s not all gay pride parades and appletinis. 

We need a leg to stand on.

We need people to wake up and educate themselves on the rights we are denied.

We need people…gay, straight, and in between, to open their eyes, stop ignoring what doesn’t directly effect them, and educate themselves.

Mary Coble. Untitled 3 (from Note to Self), 2005.

“Note to Self” was a twelve hour performance where the names of 438 gay, lesbian, bi and transgender individuals who were murdered due to hate crimes were tattooed onto the artist’s body using no ink.

(Rebloggable version of this reply, per request.)

Well, here’s the deal, anon. The Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian group, and they impose those beliefs on the people that they employ and the communities they serve. Here are a few examples:

They are so opposed to LGBT rights that they have lobbied multiple times for exemptions from Federal and Local anti-discrimination laws, and threatened to withdraw their services. 

They refused to provide shelter to a homeless gay couple, unless they broke up and renounced their homosexuality. 

They refused to provide a transgender woman with shelter that was congruent with her gender presentation, instead insisting she house with men. She chose instead to sleep on the sidewalk and died from the cold.  

Speaking of gender, there was also this charming incident where one of their hostels refused to open the door for a 17-year-old victim who had just been brutally raped (or even call the police for her) because that particular hostel had a strict “men only” policy.

Children who can’t prove their immigration status are turned away.

The organization also disposes of any Harry Potter or Twilight related donations (rather than giving them to other charities), because they claim the toys are “incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs”. 

During the Bush Administration (thanks to ‘faith-based initiatives’) they fired about 20 long-time employees (Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Gay), simply for refusing to sign the organization’s statement of Christian belief.  

So, that—in a nutshell—is what’s wrong with it.

Winter is coming… and so are their buckets. Remember this when they’re bothering you for change.

I understand that Christian values, depending on how deep you read into your verses, does not always agree with those of modern society, but these are awful and frankly give a bad name to your religion. From what I know, Christianity is about spreading good will to others, not just the word of the Lord, but show some compassion to even those you disagree with you. In my opinion this makes a organization, or a person for that matter, more likable. 

reblogging this because more people must know of their hypocrisy and hate. 

I don’t think I’ve seen a more homophobic thing in a while. Except of course three seconds ago on Grindr. This photo above disgusts me.

“Understands that there is a time and place for him to express his sexuality.” For real? Heterosexuality’s time and place is every time, every place. It expresses itself naturally in all mediums, without fear of censorship or repression. But “the homosexual” must pick and choose the appropriate moments. I don’t think so.

And how often do you see “faggots” wearing swimming gear and walking down the street? Once a year. At pride. And not all of them. Just a small tiny percentage. But of course, because they stand out, homophobes instantly inflate the image to ALL FAGGOTS WEAR UNDERWEAR AND WALK DOWN THE STREET EVERY DAY. THEY’RE EVERYWHERE. This is so fucking disgusting.

“Suffers from constant victimitus”. Yep. In the same vein lets just put all women, black people, Jews, disabled, transgendered, and anyone else who has ever been oppressed. All professional victims. Not a single one of them ever had a single justification for feeling victimised. Not a single member of their communities was ever murdered, raped, ostracised, brutalised, or humiliated on the basis of their groups characteristics. It was all in their minds.

“Defines himself as gay and revolves every facet of his life around it.” This one is tied in with the “victimitus” rubbish above, and also the “flaunting” comment. It’s a way to say “shut the fuck up and never mention that you are gay ever again.” It’s a way of saying “don’t ever let us see that gay shit. We don’t want you to have any equality and we don’t want to hear about how the oppression we are perpetuating against you makes your life suck. We’re white, hetero, privileged, and that’s all that matters. Now fuck off and die.”

FUCK ALL OF THIS SHIT.

“Like a mature man would”

ARE.

YOU.

JOKING.

LIKE IS THIS POST SATIRE OR A JOKE?!!?!

I’VE SEEN WHAT ~MATURE~ MEN DO WHEN IT COMES TO TREATING THEIR SEXUALITY…

AND IT’S NOT VERY FUCKING MATURE! 

And that time and place bullshit can get the fuck out. When hetero folks can literally flaunt and express their sexuality anywhere and everywhere and then turn around and tell us that we can only do it at certain times, we’re going to have some fucking problems and there’s going to be blood. 

The girl from Girls on guys with guys.

Lena Dunham shared this equally hilarious and depressing tweet after Clint Eastwood’s interesting (read: batshit crazy) speech at the Republican National Convention.