05-31-2012, 07:26 AM
(05-30-2012, 10:10 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: People who are members of the gay community pay taxes to your government. They have a say on how the laws and how your government is run. They vote, they have a voice, so they should be represented and they should be allowed to be part of your social structure, of course.
I think a lot of progress has been made in that area. It wasn't too long ago that gays had to hide their true selves and if they met for a drink in a club they were subject to police busts and paraded out on the street and put into police vans and shamed. Stonewall was a turning point and it's never been the same since. Gays didn't look back, they moved center stage and in your face and it's what American society hated but needed all the same for healing.