Why do straights hate gays? - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?

LARRY KRAMER is the founr of the prott group ACT UP and the thor of "The Tragedy of Today's Gays. " DEAR STRAIGHT PEOPLE, Why do you hate gay people so much?

Gays are hated. Peter Pace, chairman of the Jot Chiefs, is charge of an timated 65, 000 gay and lbian troops, some fightg for our untry Iraq. Even Garrison Keillor, of all people, is makg really tacky jok about gay parents his lumn.

Hillary Rodham Clton and Barack Obama tried to duck the qutns that Pace’s bigotry raised, nfirmg what gay people know: that there is not one ndidate nng for public office anywhere who dar to e right out, unequivolly, and say cent, supportive thgs about should not vote for any of them. There is not a ndidate or major public figure who would not sell gays down the river. We have seen this time after time, even om supposedly progrsive policians such as Print Clton wh his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays the ary and his support of the hio Defense of Marriage Act.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Of urse, ’s possible that beg shunned by gays will make policians more popular, but at least we will have our self-rpect. To vote for them is to llu wh them their utter disda for ’t any of you wonr why heterosexuals treat gays so btally year after year after year, as your people take away our manhood, our womanhood, our personhood?

Gay people have paid all the tax you have. So, even wh the most tolerant of new prints, gays will be unable to break ee om this yoke of hate.

Courts le agast gays wh hateful regulary. Our feeble gay movement nf most of s mands to marriage. My lover and I don’t want to get married jt yet, but we sure want to be mt know that gays get beaten up all the time, all over the world.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

But most stat, gays are not clud hate crime measur, and Congrs has refed to clu a feral act.

Homosexualy is a punishable crime a zilln untri, as is any activism on behalf of . Ernment refed our requts that prott after gay teenagers were hanged Iran, but protts many other foreign celti. Are jog wh the Nigerian archbishop, who believ gays should be put prison.

A young gay man was jt killed Florida bee of his sexual orientatn. I get reports of gays sla our untry every week. Do you nsir acceptable that 20, 000 Christian youths make an annual pilgrimage to San Francis to pray for gay souls?