Straight vs LGBT(Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transexual)

#1

Ok We’ve seen penis vs vagina, now I have to wonder, would you guys prefer everyone in the world was straight? or do you guys have an open mind to allow the LGBT community to survive and thrive with out the threat of homophobes. ^^ Please sit and discuss your thoughts.

As for me, I’m open minded, and want the LGBT community to survive with out fear of being harmed. They are people too. and their sign, the Rainbow, is actually a sign of Diversity, multiple colors coming together to make something beautiful. There are more reasons for why the rainbow sign exists, but thats the original and my favorite reason. :stuck_out_tongue:

So feel free to hate me for supporting the LGBT community, but I know some good people in that community, and I can’t help but love em like family. =D

#2

I’m happy being straight, but I think (or hope :fffuuu :slight_smile: that I’d be equally happy if I was gay. It really doesn’t matter that much to be quite honest.
[color=’#212121’]Although my place of residence probably has a lot to do with my views…

#3

I have no problems with gay people if that’s what you are asking.

#4

Your place of residence?

Well I, for one, don’t mind too if people are gay, lesbian, bisexual or straight. After all, they’re not very different from us, are they?

#5

Massachusetts is arguably the most liberal state in the union and the first one to permit gay marriage.

#6

Thats pretty much what I was asking Mr. Someguy, but I was also asking for reasons too. I’ve heard classic reasons ‘it’s sick and wrong’ and ‘it’s genetic! you can’t change us!’, but I have a feeling theres more to it than that. Theres always a reason people choose to hate or support the LGBT community. I want to know who supports/hates that community, and why. like my reason is well, the friends I have, they’re still who I know them as, just different skin, and likes different people.

#7

I support LGBT rights because I support human rights and I’m for equal rights. I have straight friends. I have gay friends. I have bi friends. I have trans friends. I treat them all exactly the same.

Why?

Because they’re all human beings.

Now, just because you’re a member of the LGBT community doesn’t mean that you are white as freshly fallen snow and nothing you do could be considered bad.

That would not be treating everyone equally. :slight_smile:

#8

I don’t support lesbians, gays, bisexuals or transsexuals, just like I don’t support straight people. I don’t see them as any different.

My sister is bi, and she’s been in a gay relationship for over a year now. I know several gay dudes. My godfather and my sister’s godfather are both gay. You know, whatever. I don’t care.

#9

My ex fiance is bi, and left me last year to start a relationship with a transsexual girl still trapped in a male body. I’d have several reasons to hate her for this, but I simply don’t. It’s what she wants and what makes her happy, so I want her to do it.

I have also slightly bisexual tendencies sometimes (certain types of men awake certain desires in me), but that’s not happened for more than a year.

My ex fiance worked in a coming-out-youth-center, employed by the gay community around here, and so I got to know several gay, bisexual and transsexual persons first hand, as I got to know the hardships that they have to go through when dealing with ignorant people.

So yes, I would say I totally support the community, cause they can use all the support they can get. The majority of people still thinks gay people are unnatural and disgusting. Tolerance towards gay people is not taught in schools around here, nor is it part of the raising of most children. Anti-gay humor is on the rise again, as is racial and sexist humor, and I fear the next generation will be much more intolerant than us now.

LGBT people are NOT people like us, because usually, they have had or are still having to suffer much more hardships than we do. They are more sensitive about many things, often unsure about themselves and sometimes even full of self hatred. The number of LGBTs committing suicide because of their “abnormality” is huge.
Most gay people never come out and try to live a normal life instead. They get married, they have children, all against their very own nature! They grow to hate themselves, their husbands/wifes, their children, their job, their parents and all their friends for not recognizing and not helping them to overcome their fear of being different. And sometimes, after a couple of years, they massacre their family and kill themselves afterwards. And end up in the news, where people are wondering what went wrong in their heads.

So yeah… I think LGBT people could use a little support.

#10

Seems to be a lot different here. It’s way more accepted where I live, at least by the people I know.
Which is kind of natural, I guess. I’m less likely to befriend people who think that differently from me.

#11

Around here, it’s a bit confusing. Well where I live, my parents are in tolerant, but my sister and her husband are completely ok with the LGBT community. I don’t understand my parents as they spout to be religious but they don’t go to church, they don’t have a bible, they don’t pray… but half the people I knew growing up, had no problems and was open about it, but the other half just ignored the first half and went on with their lives pretending every thing was well…straight…So it’s about 50-50 I suppose. I can’t tell anymore because I’m pretty much a loner in real life now. I go to college, I come home. I go to work, I come home.

#12

If they’re not up in my face having sex saying “We’re gay and you have to accept and support our decision!” then I am fine with it.

#13

That’s a weird thing to say…I lived in Los Angeles for a while, and can’t recall seeing much in the way of public homosexual intercourse on my daily commute, much less sex interrupted to solicit my explicit support of said coupling. What kind of mecca of public fornication do you live in, good sir, where such things occupy your mind with such vigor?

Do you refer instead to gay people kissing or holding hands in public? Or to efforts on behalf of the gay community to gain equal rights in marriage and adoption? Because if so, that’s messed up. I doubt it bothers you much when straight folk do that. The kissy/hand holdy part, not those other things.

#14

No its just there is some fucked up people where I live (which I’m not gonna share). Kissing and holding hands and sharing information about how they are gay in a civic and non disgusting manner is fine with me.

#15

If gay people can keep their penis in their pants, I’m fine with it. I can tolerate people who are gay. In fact, I have several bi friends.

If they want me to join in, however, they have another thing coming.

#16

You are a positive addition to this forum.

Also, at ^

Why do people so often have the feeling that gay men want to get in their pants. I mean, you don’t think every woman wants to, do you?

#17

then why we were created male ,female ?

in my opinion , LGBT is wrong and it really hit the laws of nature

#18

I, myself, don’t mind if someone is gay. It’s their preference and it doesn’t hurt my daily life any.

#19

Each to their own.

#20

I know exactly what you mean. I’m a firm advocate for gay rights. I believe that each person should be able to make their own choices with respect to love. I’m straight, and I personally made out with at least one man on New Year’s Eve this year. Homophobia isn’t healthy.

But, when gay people adopt an attitude along the lines of “I’m gay and you’re not so you’re intolerant and I’m better than you,” which what I think Rossman was trying to get at, then I have a problem with them. It’s the same thing as me having no problem with black people, but having a huge problem with “buh-LACK PEOPUL.”

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