Is it wrong that I wish gay marriage would be made legal just so we don’t have to fucking keep talking about it like it’s the end-all-be-all of queer politics? Hell, despite all the hoopla here in New York state about legalizing same-sex marriages last year, how many residents of this state know that just last week GENDA (Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act) was passed through the assembly yet again, sending it to the senate that has quashed it four years running? No matter how often I insist to other (non-queer) students around me that the marriage equality fight does indeed suck up all the money, manpower, and media exposure to the detriment of other issues of far greater concern to the less white, less cis, less wealthy segments of queer society, none of them ever want to believe me. Fuck you Bravo watching, HRC donating motherfuckers who care infinitely more that queer people can’t get married in North Carolina than the fact that those same queer people in that same state have no formal legal protections from being fired or evicted unscrupulously.
tl;dr - every queer who cares about marriage is white, wealthy and cis (all at once) and no one can focus on any other issues that affect our communities, what with marriage on the mind 24/7...and don't you forget it.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-14 12:03 am (UTC)(link)tl;dr - every queer who cares about marriage is white, wealthy and cis (all at once) and no one can focus on any other issues that affect our communities, what with marriage on the mind 24/7...and don't you forget it.
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