As they Stand on the Tipping-Point, Gay Couples' Advocacy Having Ever-Growing Impact
It seems like every day, there's a new online database of people who are publicly opposed to gays -- but each time it happens,...
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Ben in oakland said:
May 1, 2009 12:40 PM
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You gotta love the anti-gay people. I’m glad they think it is important to keep stirring the pot. i have long maintained that they are not the enemy. The enemy is the closet and the ocnspiracy of silence that supports it.
The more they talk, the more other people talk.
The reason we lost on Prop. 8 was neither money nor faith. No on 8, while loudly proclaiming that Gay Is Good, the official strategy came from the dark recesses of the closet, where hypocrisy is queen, and Gay Is Not So Good. Thus, in a campaign about gay marriage, we gay people, our lives, our families, and yes, our kids and our faiths, were completely invisible-- by design, lest we scare some undecided voter. We could not discuss anti-gay prejudice, either, because by calling attention to a reality in our lives, we might offend the very people who call us a threat to family, faith, and country.
Matt Baume said:
May 4, 2009 4:59 PM
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I do agree with Ben that the official campaign lacked focus on gay couples. But I also don't lay ALL of the blame on the campaign, because a lot of the gay community was at best insular, and at worst disengaged.
How many of us went out of our way to have those difficult conversations about our own personal reasons for wanting the freedom to marry? Those conversations are like little victory-machines; you wind them up and they fly off into the world, spreading sympathy for our cause.
The campaign let us down by not highlighting our stories; but we too were not as forthcoming with conversations as we could have been.