Ha.
That’s for slamming Obama and your view on gay marriage.
The Best Thing That God Ever Created is A New Day
So woke up to the news of Obama supporting gay marriage.
And seeing support from your favorite artists is awesome!
On Gay Marriage
I remember the time when someone I follow here on tumblr posted about the futility of marriage for the lgbt. I went anon and messaged him my rebuttal. I didn’t have the confidence before hence the hiding behind a gray icon. I was right and still is that’s why I’m posting it here and because of the Tom Bridegroom video.
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Someone I follow: IF YOU WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE, JUST FUCKING BE WITH SOMEONE.
Sometimes, I really don’t understand why marriage is such a big deal. We go out of our way to detest the church and doctrines and all that for condemning the LGBT community, and yet we clamor for their very ACCEPTANCE when it comes to marriage equality? It’s like saying FUCK YOU, BUT PLEASE LOVE ME.
I say FUCK marriage in general. I don’t see why someone can’t just COMMIT to another person without some guy/girl in a robe reciting a speech from an old book.
I was raised a Catholic, and I’ve attended Catholic schools all my life, but I still don’t see the point of marriage. Don’t burn me at the stake for it. I’m really just ticked off about blah this and blah that about LGBT marriage when it shouldn’t even matter if you really love someone.
What’s marriage nowadays but a wedding anyway?
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I: Your view on gay marriage is fucked up. The thing that you don’t realize is that being married entails your partner with health insurance and other benefits just like the straight cohorts. I’d say, it is not a matter of Church’s acceptance but rather of practicality and most of all equality. Marriage is not just a commitment to the church. It’s also commitment to your partner and the law that you will be there with each other, especially if one is in need of help.
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SIF: I didn’t know health insurance was a big deal, either. People in this country don’t talk about it.
Like I said, I don’t see why one can’t just commit without some piece of paper or whatever for proof. Why do we, whether under the law or the eyes of God, have to prove our commitment?
I stand by my opinion that marriage in general should just be dissolved. If it’s creating so much inequality, then just abolish it. Reduce it to what it really is nowadays - a pretty little ceremony.
Why are you anonymous? If your goal is to educate me on my skewed notions, you should do so personally.
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I: A plethora of things is not talked in this country yet it does not mean they are not important. Maybe to you who seems well off in life, it is easy to dismiss that health insurance and other related things are not relevant. Anyway,if you think marriage is shitty in general, then you should just have said it so. Don’t put into context that gay marriage is about the LGBT community trying to gain acceptance from fuck ups. If you detest marriage so much, hate the church for establishing it but not the ones who believe that gay marriage and equality are important.
I made my case and stood up for what I think is right. They are a lot of ignorant and misinformed persons about the LGBT community, even within the community. It is essential that we exchange ideas. Talk about issues and find a way to settle any misunderstanding. Everyday we are learning and that what matters here.
The reason of doing this is that I find a handful of people who are fighting for LGBT rights here in Philippines. Most LGBT issues, if not all, are still taboo. The big pink elephant must be noticed. It is the only way to have equality.
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He, later, deleted all the posts related to this conversation.
Right now, I’m leaning on the side where I’m losing hope that Philippines will never give equal rights for its lgbt citizens.
Gay Man Honors Boyfriend’s Death
With Poignant Video Noting Lack Of Rights Offered To Unwed Same-Sex CouplesA California-based gay man is marking the one-year anniversary of his boyfriend’s untimely death with a new video that’s both a poignant memorial and a testimony to the lack of rights provided to same-sex couples barred from getting married under current laws.
Titled “It Could Happen To You,” the clip contains heartwarming anecdotes about the relationship between Shane Bitney Crone and Tom Bridegroom, who were committed to one another for six years. “We started a business, owned a home and traveled the world together,” Crone, a Montana native, recalls in the video.
But after the pair decided to come out to their families, Crone says Bridegroom’s parents were outraged. “When Tom returned to Indiana to visit his parents for Christmas, his father threatened him with a gun and physically attacked him.”
After Bridegroom’s untimely death on May 7, 2011, Crone was barred from attending the funeral and wake, and wasn’t mentioned in the obituary. His experience trying to obtain information from the hospital was similarly unsuccessful. “To Tom’s family, I no longer existed, and to the government, Tom and I were mere roommates,” Crone notes.
Crone concludes: “I need to fight for what’s right. I need to fight for what I believe in and I can’t just stand back anymore. Maybe that’s why this all happened, maybe this is part of the reason…is to open my eyes and to inspire me to want to make a change and to want to fight for equality.”
A memorial page in honor of Bridegroom has been launched on Facebook. Click here for the page.
Watch it.
This is the reality of not having equal rights. Everyone should see this.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
End marriage discrimination.
Share and sign the petition here: http://www.c4em.org.uk/
UP Babaylan president Pat Bringas on transgenders in Miss Universe
“Just going where you are happy is brave thing.”
“Being a woman(or imo, gender) is not about the organ between your legs. It’s between your ears and what’s in your heart.”
thingsthataregay.biz
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University Student Council Election Result
YESSSSS! Things are changing over here in my university.
Heart Dino wins as Chairperson. She is the first ever transgendered(male to female) elected chairperson! She won against 3 other candidates.
For the Vice-Chairperson, Alex Castro is a lesbian.
Both are LGBT rights activists and members of UP Babaylan, the only LGBT uni/school org in the Philippines.
Maan, how rare it is to see LGBT people elected in positions like these. Good job fellow iskolar ng bayan! Changing minds little by little.
~ Rep. Maureen Walsh (R-Walla Walla) defends gay marriage before the historic Washington state vote.
I defy you not to tear up.
What an amazing woman.
THIS!
The event I attended last night
is a reaffirmation of the things I really want and the principles I believed are truly mine. There are personal realizations that came to fruition.
- Being gay doesn’t mean you have to have a group of gay friends. A circle or what we call gay barkada is not necessary.
- Most of the gay men I met yesterday don’t believe in gay rights, specially in gay marriage. I raised that question and asked the opinion of the members of the small group I was part of. According to them, marriage is what the straights do and since we are gay we should not imitate them. 0.o I don’t wanna judge them but that is just idiotic. At least I got to defend my position on gay rights and marriage and prolly taught them a lesson or two.
- Many gay men are still after casual sex. I know from an academic pov that sex can be for pleasure and/or attached to emotion/love. Personally, I don’t want to waste time pursing casual sex that leads to nothing. Emotions and love will be reasons why I would have sex with one person. I’m not saying that I’ll hold out my virginity after I get gay married. LOL. Love should be a dimension of sex.
- I’m disappointed really with the mentality of our fellow Filipino gay men. At least the ones I’ve met.
