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The struggle for gay rights is not over.

Hatred and bigotry still exist.

The Orlando gunman took his warped idea of the law into his own hands because he "saw two men kissing". He was with his son. Outrage ensued.

This is a kind of insanity of course but it is also the product of a homophobic culture.

Why We Should Politicize the Orlando Massacre

...it is only the most privileged among us who have the luxury of divorcing politics from everyday life. Those of us in the L.G.B.T. community know better. Politics is how we won the right to be free from discrimination in government jobs, to have sex without fear of criminal prosecution, to serve in the military, to get married and adopt children. In about 28 states, we are still fighting to outlaw discrimination in employment. And transgender Americans are still fighting for the right to pee in peace.

To think that a mass shooting at a gay nightclub filled with Latinos and committed by a Muslim-American sympathetic to religious extremists is beyond the scope of politics is absurd on its face — you couldn’t dream up a scenario more rife with political implications. But it is especially absurd to those of us in the L.G.B.T. community, whose very existence has been politicized for decades.

Religious extremists are all the same. Christers and Mohammedans alike. The deep conviction that they are right and others are not only wrong but worse, are sinners to be smitten down. Punished.

Beware of the church and its children.

For those who might wonder about the "gay bar", as an institution, read this.

Finding ‘My Most Authentic Self’: What L.G.B.T. Spaces Mean to You

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