baraqasherstein
Baraq Asher Stein
baraqasherstein

I'm agreeing with Zeldamina on this one and am getting a strong sense that you just want us to shut the fuck up.
So to highlight Z's points:
-no one called Obama a bigot.
-no one said Obama is Homophobic.
-If you were even remotely familiar with the Equality movement you would realize that we work hand in hand with the

You are right, it does take many years for advances to be made as a community. But this movement hasn't been around for only 6 years, we didn't just show up when Obama became president. We have been petitioning for these rights since the beginning of the gay rights movement (1969) and even before then.
Are we

Happy Holiday.

I forgot that part. That is her name: Happy Holiday.

It used to be Merry Christmas, it was then changed to Happy Holiday



OMG. I know who submitted that email, it's this crazy woman who used to drop letters to a local restaurant in Milwaukee called Beans and Barley.

Well right. My point is the effort of doing outreach and seeking those community hotspots, and community leaders, is the logistical work that needs to be done. Not standing idly in some clinic at the door hoping they will just walk in and request condoms.

Yeah, but a lot of the time sex workers who came into the resource center we were at would just take boxes upon boxes and bring them to their workplace.

religious communities, like all communities, evolve. Regardless of interpretations of scripture, some is followed, some isn't. As a community, we decide the shape and face of what it means to be who we are. Being religious/spiritual is the same as being a literalist.

Been a subject of debate before, for example the reality that if hormone exposure in the womb really DOES predict homosexuality, can you abort a gay baby?

This is a tad alarmist. As someone who worked with sex workers in Thailand, most sex workers do freelance or untether themselves from a house. The fact is they still congregate in red-light areas for at least a little while to attract new clients. Non-profits don't like to do the legwork of actually walking out into

Actually that was exactly what I was thinking too. I can understand fury over feeling culturally exploited, but I'm not quite sure the argument of "Don't look or touch at anything of my culture because it's mine," is necessarily what is wanted either. I haven't really seen this regalia exclusivity argument made with a