"Look, I have a black friend now! I can't be racist!"
It's 2016 and they just had one guy say he's proud to be gay.
This is progress. It's still a long way from good enough.
It's 2016 and they just had one guy say he's proud to be gay.
This is progress. It's still a long way from good enough.
If the Republican Party wants us to believe that they're pro-LGBT now, let them prove it with legislation, not just cheers. I'll believe it once I see the majority of Republican lawmakers actively promoting full equality under the law for gay and trans people, not before.
Therefore, this will naturally cease to be a problem as the old generations die out, and we're already seeing signs of it.
One would hope that we can thus move on and start discussing more interesting things (college republican/democrat debates, where you are automatically a monster if republican, I'm looking at you).
I want my rights now.
For example, gay marriage is not "equality under law", as there are still plenty of prohibitions to marriage - for example, incestuous or polygamous relationships are prohibited from marriages in many a state, which means supporting gay marriage does not support "equality under law", but extending the privilege of marriage to a wider group.