National coming out day

[firecat]

cross-posted from Facebook

It's National Coming Out Day! I'm queer and poly.

I think that adults should be legally supported in making relationships with any other adults they want to make relationships with. Adults who want to raise children should be legally supported in raising children. Society should treat hate crimes and bullying seriously.

All this stuff seems so obvious to me that it feels stupid saying it. But given what I hear about the recent suicides (due to bullying) of a number of queer young people, and growing harrassment of Muslims, and other criminally intolerant behavior that fails to be addressed, apparently it isn't obvious to everyone.

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[trouble]

♥

[axelrod]

Basically, what you said.

(I mean, we could argue the details of what relatioships the gvt should recognize and how that would work and I kinda think the gvt should only recognize parent/guardian-child relationships but I just don't give a fuck really so long as it's a) properly inclusive and b) actually fucking works. And I don't know enough about the legal and practical implications to really usefully discuss implementation of policies which are extremely unlikely any time soon.)

[laughingrat]

Lots of normalized oppression out there. It's ridiculous that we have to keep asserting basic human dignity, yet here we are. :(

Happy National Coming Out Day, tho. :)

[eggcrack]

What you said, million times. ♥

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[(Anonymous)]

I wonder, do I have to live in another world or something? What you said is quite obvious to me as well. But I feel more and more like a minority.- Ardys

[carpe-embreem.livejournal.com]

I am queer, and appreciate your words! I agree, your statements should be common sense.