gbaji wrote:
Dyadem of Future Fabulous! wrote:
Lady Bardalicious wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Gay couples didn't want or care about marriage until they were told by their political leaders that it was important that they did. Talk about manipulation!
Oh, please point out when this happened on a timeline
Do it, I @#%^ing dare you.
Yes please. I would like to know the exact date and time that the government told me that I should fight for my rights. I was under the impression that the day I came out and told everyone I was gay, before any state had same sex marriage, and started fighting for gay rights... I had no clue that the government told me to do it.
Most states didn't have any actual codified prohibition against gay couples marrying until the 1980s. Did you know that? The first case in the US of a gay person *attempting* to get a marriage license was in 1970. The laws didn't expressly prohibit it, but everyone simply assumed that state defined marriage was specific to heterosexuals and almost no gay people ever tried to get married "legally" for most of US history.
It's only been in the last 30 years or so that it's become an issue. And even today, if you ask most gay people if *they* want or ever plan or even vaguely desire to get married, a vast majority of them will not only say "no", but "hell no". It's a fabricated issue. Always has been.
Sodomy Laws weren't repealed until the 1970's at the earliest. Some states still had them until 2003. It's kind of hard to ask for marriage equality when a part of what defines your relationship is illegal.
The gay community was a largely underground one prior to the 1980s because people had a tendency to hate us and judge us without knowing us. The 50's and 60's did a great job of branding us the "gay public menace"
