This is an interesting article from Newsweek.
Reporter, Ramin Setoodeh asks if Glee's Kurt, Adam Lambert and other gay reality stars are hurting our cause.
I will say that gays are slowly losing their originality in their looks, but I'm not sure if we are hurting our cause.
Here's a piece of the article:
The problem with the Glee club is that Kurt and the rest are loud and proud, but their generation has turned down the volume. All this at a time when standing apart seems particularly counterproductive. Marriage (and the military) are sacred institutions, so it's not surprising that some heterosexuals will defend them against what they see as a radical alteration. But if you want to be invited to someone else's party, sometimes you have to dress the part. Is that a form of appeasement? Maybe. It's not that gay men and women should pretend to be straight, or file down all their fabulously spiky edges. But even Rachel Maddow wears lipstick on TV. The key is balance.
I don't know about this one. Please read the article and let me know what you think.
Oh, blah. The writer is asking people to be who they're not to satisfy the ignorant. That doesn't sit well with me.
ReplyDeleteOkay, this is the first time I've ever wanted to have sex with Prince.
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We need to be who we are. If that makes people uncomfortable and makes our journey bumpy and longer, well so be it.
ReplyDeleteOur personalities and personas are across the board. There is no archetype for being gay or lesbian. From the butchest of us to the most FAB-ulous!! We're a Spectrum! That's why we have the rainbow symbol bitches! (Ok, well not really but hey, it works!)
ReplyDeleteIt took a long time to deal with my internal homophobia and embrace all that our community has to offer. If we can't do it, how can we expect them too? There's room on the television for all of us!
Well, it shows that LGBT spectrum is broad and wide, but I feel that some people see their sexuality as either a part of them rather than a definition of them.
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