Refutg Anti-Gay Rights Arguments | The Progrsive Cynic

Contents:

• ANTI GAY QUOT
• THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
• PRO & CON QUOT: SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• REFUTG ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ARGUMENTS

ANTI GAY QUOT

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival. Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath.

When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power.

“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS

“If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them. “Middle-class gay whe men argued that 'gay rights' should rema a legislative issue and that 'legally sanctned gay marriage should be a primary ncern for all of .

' Kunzel charts the ways that the forced fettg of queer and trans prisoners was central to the alcg of 'new gay norms, ' 'gay rpectabily, ' and homonormativy. And as of this week, seems that we are now enterg a perd, both polilly and possibly socially, which the good news for gay rights will likely be unrmed and undone a ln ways large and have been worryg about a great gay rights backlash on-and-off for the past few years, of urse. A Tea Party favore, Bev is perhaps bt known outsi the state for his arnt support of Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who famoly nied marriage licens to gay upl her ral district.

”Further to the south Hoton, voters undid the Hoton Equal Rights Ordance, a municipal law that sought to protect gay and transgenr people om discrimatn. )You n roll your ey and thk to yourself that, the grand scheme of gay rights, the bathroom thg is a rather fe pot—although ’s worth notg what any third grar will tell you, which is that public bathrooms and locker rooms tend to be a bully’s natural habat. ' ---"Dear Abby" rponds to a rear who plaed that a gay uple was movg across the street and wanted to know what he uld do to improve the qualy of the neighborhood.

PRO & CON QUOT: SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

“The ncept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the ia that really sps their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifyg of all human notns, one n love another of the same genr, that is what the homophobe really nnot stand. On the other hand, sce most heterosexual men are homophobic and sexist, most straight guys figure gay men will treat them the way they themselv treat women- that is, like sex objects.

“The roots of sexism and homophobia are found the same enomic and polil stutns that serve as the foundatn of racism this untry and, more often than not, the same extremist circl that flict vlence on people of lor are rponsible for the eptns of vlence spired by sexist and homophobic bias. Compared to the Amerin public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, bee of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, ls ightened of them.

Common stereotyp clu “men are all dogs, ” “women are ls terted sex, ” “gays are promiscuo, ” certa rac are igid or hung, and certa sex acts are dulgent, effemate, or immoral. “At some pot our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood agast this civil right will look as outdated as Gee Wallace standg on the school steps keepg Jam Hood om enterg the Universy of Alabama bee he was black.

REFUTG ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ARGUMENTS

“You have to remember, rights don't e groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights e as dividuals, and we wouldn't have this major bate gog on. Most of all, if Harvey had not been taken om 30 years ago, I thk he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are ls than by their church, or by the ernment, or by their fai, that you are betiful, wonrful creatur of value. No ser efforts by the Republin Party, who were once stnch opponents to legalizg gay marriage, have been ma sce the urt’s cisn — even recent years, unr a Republin print.