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ENDA BENDER

This is a bit arcane for the non-gays, the straights, but let me try.

Trans HRC board member tells why she quit

Years ago, the gay rights movement got way inclusive and added bisexuals to the title of parades and meetings and all. GayLesbianBisexuals.

Some of us were miffed at that but it caught on. The bisexuals screamed loud enough and we didn't want trouble.

Not to put too fine a point on it but there are many gay men and lesbians who do not really believe bisexualism exists except as an extension of the closet.

This is too politically incorrect to even mention but there it is.

I was one of those miffed. Still am.

Then, along came the transexuals wanting to be part of GLB and, again, PC to the max, they got added to the signs; GLBT.

Some of us were way miffed about this one.

Here we have people who, rightfully, seek rights and affirmation but in quite a different way.

I won't go into the issues here but they are formidable.

Now, Barney Frank took the T out of the ENDA bill so he could get it passed.

Someone finally got real about how the T's don't fit here.

There has to be an end to it.

What next?

Tranvestites who are mostly straight?

So here we are. Cutting the tail of the kite a bit shorter.

It would not be an issue had it been kept short in the first place.

It was hard enough getting gay men and lesbians together and, truth be known there is still a lot of friction over that in the movement. Women and men. Different issues.

It is like all special interests. Separation causes trouble from the beginning.

I have no particular solution for it.

It was done. It is being done.

I would like to see a time when we didn't need any movement at all.

But we are not there yet.

In the meantime, we have to say that shoving cows and goats and sheep together into the same barn may not always have the best result.

I know. That image probably isn't PC either.

I am so fucking tired of PC.

Labels: gay politics, gay rights