Pride Month: The Fight for LGBTQIA+ Rights in the U.S.

I just don’t approve. I’ll address each branch because they are literal opposites. The LGB has my full support. This is America, and you are free to like who you wish. Trans people, on the other hand, exist in pure opposition with the feminist movement. The fem movement argues that men and women are akin in abilities and options, but trans people purely argue that their decisions and preferences are based on biological differences. How can liberals support both? Are men and women the same? Or are they biologically predictable? You CANNOT support trans rights while also supporting feminism

Everyone is equal before the law, greetngs from Costa Rica and ID Foundation

While I’m so proud of all of the work that the LGBTQ+ community, especially Black transwomen in the community, have done toward creating progress and improving the social attitude toward Pride, it’s not enough to change our society. Straight and cis allies like myself and politicians need to stand for equality every month of the year and need to go beyond performative activism by truly standing with the LGBTQ+ community and fighting for the passing of progressive legislation like the Equality Act.

Why isn't Marsha P. Johnson mentioned at all here?

This is crazy. People should get a life.

I will accept a national pride day but do have a few concerns. I have no faith that LGBTQ individuals will ever accept equality. Even once everything is fair and even this will not end because we have granted them a special space as a country and they have become entitled. There are thousands of scholarships open to LGBT that far outweigh those based on merit. I am white. I am a male. But this does not mean I am my ancestors. I accept everyone and have zero problems with this until they ask for special treatment. Equality is the goal, or at least it used to be, and every movement that singles out a faction is inherently objective to that goal.

The complaining of those on the right about "what do they want?" are obviously ignorant of reality. This is just like the "post-racial" lie we heard after President Obama was elected. Just because there has been progress doesn't mean we're all being treated equally. LGBT+ people can still be discriminated against in housing, healthcare, the justice system, and the workplace in dozens of US states that do not have non-discrimination protections. Until those protections are put in place, we are not all equal and do not have the same rights as straight, white, cis people who need to wake up and think about the feelings and needs of others.

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There have been a lot of victories for the LGBT+ community in the past decade, despite the attempt to erode rights by those in the Republican Party. All Americans deserve the right to love, to work, to receive healthcare, to find housing, and to visit attractions and businesses with their money. These rights don't have to conflict with religious values, but religion can never be more important than human rights, or we live in the same kind of oppressive society we see in the Middle East. As Pride Month comes to an end, I call on Congress to tell us why the Equality Act has still not been introduced in the Senate. We need to see every Senator on record as whether they support full equality for all Americans, no matter their orientation or gender identity. Until we're all equal, we are still not living up to the ideals of the Constitution.

LGBTQ+ rights are human rights, and we must do all we can to support LGBTQ+ rights. This is especially true for Trans people, who are at higher risk of being on the receiving end of bigotry and discrimination. We must protect trans people and trans rights.

I look forward to the day when we no longer have to protect the rights of any group of people or person who can be tagged as some kind of ‘other’. Every person should be treated the same way as any other person no matter their sexual preference, gender preference, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, skin color, age, or anything else that allows some people to tag any other person as some kind of ‘other’. Our country has a way to go to fully evolve to where we only see fellow people and no longer see ‘others’. Until then, we must collectively work to assure that the rights of LBGTQ+ individuals are protected in the same way that we demand that the rights of any ‘other’ group are protected. Blatant discrimination is easier to spot and to mandate corrective actions. Systemic discrimination is harder to correct because it is based on largely subconscious biases. Systemic discrimination is not limited to people of color. … … … I have been a little uncomfortable with some aspects of the LBGTQ+ community, but that is all on me. My logical thinking self is working to overcome unfounded, unwarranted biases and I like to think that I have made progress in this regard. There is great value in maintaining statistics of how otherwise comparable people are treated by society in order to spot systemic discrimination in the denial of anyone’s rights to be treated equally and with the same regard or disregard as anyone else.

Every person on the planet are of the SAME race... there are no “others”. Otherness is taught, but it shouldn’t be. Anyone teaching children otherness of any kind should be treated as mentally ill criminals, including their own families. This is a disease of the human community. I never had an opinion of LGBTQ people until I was 14 and spending a great deal of time with someone who(for whatever reason) didn’t like people of this persuasion. I became involved in a bullying scene that was not how I felt. I felt bad and embarrassed that I had become a follower of hateful ideas. I never spent time with that “friend” again. Strangely, not 2 months later we gave room & board to a man, that for all intents & purposes was a carpenter. As a teenager I figured out he was different by watching him, but he had already become a part of our family as well as my protector. I came to see a soul that wanted all the same things we all want. People that easily believe “otherness” is bad, less, or evil are people that need to put some people beneath themselves in order to feel accomplished. Well I say: if you really were accomplished you wouldn’t need to belittle anyone to improve your self worth.

I have no opinion. I never had an issue with gays until they started shoving it in my face and telling me I had to like it. Really?

we are still far from equal...and it 2021.

My Grandmother used to say, "It takes all kinds to make up our world. Sometimes we look different than they do. Sometimes they enjoy different foods than we do. There are people that like different music than we do as well. They are all people just like us". That is my golden rule when it comes to sexual preference as well.

In Bangor Maine.and I’m loving all the LGBQT pride flags!!!! Wishing you all equality & acceptance.

I don't care if you are a man who likes men or a woman who likes women, just don't try to make me join in. If you're a man who identifies as a woman or a woman who identifies as a man that's also OK. I don't even care which bathroom you use, just as long as it's a private stall. If you've got a penis don't go into a locker room or shower intended for women and do NOT try to pick up a guy unless he knows what sexual equipment you have. Similar rules apply for women who identify as men.

We are all equal regardless of race, religion and sexual preference.

This is the assault against Science, and Biology. Each person is born male, or female. Medical Science, and Society must return to helping confused people in living as they were born.

This is a mental health problem and it should be treated that way. This is a mental disease and deformation. God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.