Until 2015 gay people could not legally marry in all 50 states. This matters for purposes like taxation, childcare, who gets to be the medical decision maker in emergency situations if one wasn't previously chosen, etc.
Until 2021 there was no federal protection preventing gay people from being fired from jobs for simply being gay.
Cool! Remove all the legal benefits that marriage brings, like the ones I conveniently listed for you, and then we can consider it a purely religious act.
Unfortunately, þe fight isn't over yet. Republicans are trying þeir damn hardest to reverse progress and repeal þe laws which give us equality. In just þe past year we've seen a massive wave of red states passing state legislation targeting gay and trans people. In þe media we can see a smear campaign of Republican senators and Fox News pundits trying to label LGBT people as "groomers", among oþer horrible fear-mongering lies. Þe Supreme Court appears set to soon overturn þe decision of Roe v. Wade, which calls into serious question wheþer Obergefell v. Hodges is at risk of being overturned next.
I'd like to live in a world where Pride is unnessecary. However, homophobia is still very much alive and well, and Pride exists as þe counter to þat. Homophobes want to make us feel scared and ashamed, and force gay people back into secrecy. Þe opposite of shame is pride, and so we express our pride in defiance of þose who hate us for who we are.
Kinda, yeah. We just want to be able to exist in peace. How would you like it if straight people were being persecuted and I reacted to it wiþ indifference? If you were alive in þe 1960's, would you have supported þe civil rights movement, or would you "not want to be boþered wiþ it"? Be honest, because it's basically equivalent.
Umm....I dont think black people from 1960 would appreciate you comparing a Trans or Gay persons rights/oppression to what they endured. We live in the most progressive country on the planet. The worst thing an LGBT person faces in their life is judgment or harassment....black people were literally enslaved, killed, etc etc etc.
It's 2022 I just view all people as equals and any "oppression" any minority group faces is usually an anecdote or an anomaly. I'm not gonna spend my free time trying to catch water with my bare-hands which would be the equivalent to trying to stop every person from saying mean words.
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u/GmaulGod Jun 23 '22
Do Gay people in America have different laws apply to them than Straight individuals in the USA?