Fairness - The Commentary

The standard explanation is that Pride Month commemorates the date of the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, but with time and hard-won successes, its celebrations became more like LGBTQ+ expos or commercial fairs than Stonewall-commemorating fights for acceptance and liberation . The larger ones not only touted their big corporate sponsorships but started charging admission fees in order for everyday people like those at Stonewall to be proud. People who’d fought so hard for acceptance for generations began to take these as signs of activism’s success – we must have made it because look at all those corporations taking our side. And look how we can put on a party that gets us mainstream attention and, maybe, their love and respect. But something was different about these events this past month.   First , so many big corporations who loved waving rainbow flags showed us their true colors (not those rainbow ones). We learned that their affirming talk and sponsorships had little to do ...

Admit it. Loving LGBTQ relationships could be better.   It’s the cultural messages about ideal relationships that actually keep us from having relationships that are all we’d like them to be.   No matter how damaging these messages might be, society kas little incentive to change them soon even though some people try to ignore them. There are too many economic benefits in them for our consumerism. Maintaining these sick messages sells stuff . When LGBTQ people join the parade and fit in, they do look “straighter.” They look just like the ideal couple that our culture is selling us. Yet we may also wonder why something still seems to be missing in relationships we think should be more than they turn out to be. Here are seven false, unhelpful, but still popular, messages keeping LGBTQ+ people stuck. 1) Being homosexual , bisexual, or transgender hinders close, long-term relationships. This idea has been so universal and persistent, both blatantly and subtly, that LGBTQ people p...