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Just an admirer, follower, and supporter of the many amazing people in this word making a difference in their own ways.
Stephen Colbert breaks character to deliver an It Gets Better message to LGBT youth.
“If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore.”
Ok,
I will admit that I do love Stephen Colbert and it is great that he is attempting to do something to show his support for the LGBTQ community, I do not support the It gets better campaign.
Really.. All I can say is.. It gets better for WHO?
For those privileged people who have the ability and access to go to whatever hipster or progressive college someday where they can feel more accepted
For those who have the ability to move to other states someday because of financial means or other opportunities.
For those who are the ones sending the message… those famous, wealthy, and majority white individuals who are already living the good life…
What about those LGBTQ people who do not have the choice or option to ever leave their hometown, community, or family that tears them down or provides no support.
What about those who care more about their family ties and other multiple identities that they can not just run away and find some magical gay/queer community that will assumingly welcome them with open arms.
And what are we assuming… that once all the little lonely queers in small conservative towns get a chance to get out to big cities like New York City, San Francisco, or even the Twin Cities that they will find this amazing gay community that they will automatically fit right into and be so accepted by….
Are you kidding me… Sometimes our community (the LGBTQ community) is the worst… We tear each other down, make gross stereotypes, assumptions, and set ridiculous expectations of what we think we should look, act and think like. We are the ones that tell each other your not trans enough, your not butch enough, you look to straight, you do not party enough. etc… So who is to say that even when you find this community that it is even one that you will feel accepted in or that it will be any better.
What we need to be is realistic… honest… and to start creating spaces across and in every part of the world for all identities. We should not be sending this message that you just have to hold on.. wait it out.. get to those liberal big cities… and do not let words hurt you.. you must be stronger.. but the reality is.. how do you get stronger with no support… with no recognition of who you are as a whole person.. your other identies.. with no real representation of the LGBTQ .. and when there is it is all white, wealthy, and usually gay males… We need to send a new messsage…
A message that says… Fuck yea it sucks.. but you are not alone.. there are other people in your same or similar situations across the world… there are others fighting your similar battles… and we need to start pulling together and making our worlds better places for ourselves and create our communities that accept not just our one identity but all of them…
Okay… sorry I am ranting… but we need to realize that it goes so much deeper then this.. and that even our own community the LGBTQ community still needs a lot of work. In fact really I should be saying our LGBTQIAPD community.. and even then I am sure I may have left some letters out.. because we are complex and beautiful community and we need to start realizing, embracing and educating ourselves.
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These “it gets better” vids are so awesome! They make me all mushy and hopeful. Thank
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ohmygod, he was already my favorite comedian. ;3; now i have all
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