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Issues in the gay community
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David Hauslaib
Uploaded on 01/24/2008
Equality, HIV/AIDS, and moving beyond mere tolerance.
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Re: Issues in the gay community

We need to realize that the different communities within the LGBT communities are interwoven.  Rules and laws that effect transgender people also have an effect on gay males, lesbians, and any other community.  

If a city or state passes a law restricting discrimination in the workplace and housing based on sexual orientation - that can be limited to employer, landlords, and mortgage lenders cannot ask a person if they are gay, straight, or bisexual.  That does not mean that the prospective employer, landlord, or lender can make assumptions on how an individual talks, dresses, or behaves.  So, if an effeminate gay man applies for a job and doesn't get it, there is the potential that that person does not get the job because of the way this hypothetical man behaves, not because he is gay.

 

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Re: Issues in the gay community
I think that the laws against gays and lesbians are the most unintelligent and most unreasonable laws in the United States system. It's not like Lesbians and gays choose to be the way they are, just like as was stated before, heterosexuals do not have that choice, either. People can't help who they like or don't like. Just like how people can't choose the color of their skin. I bet if you asked any of the people that put those laws into the sytem they could not give any reasonable answers for it. Saying that homosexuals are not allowed to marry is like saying that people of a different race than everyone else are not allowed to marry, or that people who are of a different religion than everyone else are not allowed to marry. I thought we got rid those dumb laws against people who can't change themselves. If this is a free country, why can't people marry who they want?
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