This Just Hurts My Brain and My Soul

[elrhiarhodan]

I found this by way of Erastes' blog this morning.

Apparently GLBT people do not exist.

Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist and lobbyist on behalf of Mission America, has announced that “there is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian, or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen, or human.”

“There are no such humans,” she added.

Following this quote through the various news sites and blogs that have picked it up, a lot of the comments say things like "she's never be on the internet, she's never been to [name of big city], etc."

I think what she's really saying that there is not there there is no such thing as GLBT people. She's saying that they aren't human.

It's 2011, why does this shit still happen?

And why am I not surprised that it does happen, either. Earlier this week, 14 year old Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide after being bullied for over a year with taunts about his sexuality. The young man had even posted to the "I Gets Better Project" on YouTube.

You can listen to Harvey's appalling statement on Right Wing Watch.

Comments

[coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com]

It's hard not to just give in to hatred. Like you said, especially with Harvey and the teen suicides combined, and we know -- all the compassionate people of this world know -- that the hateful one begets the tragic other. It's hard not to scream (and sometimes screaming is what is necessary) when the religious right is the most hateful thing there is and in the name of "love" insights violence against fragile, beautiful people. So. Fucking. Hard.

But I believe they're all sign posts for us, not to become full of hate ourselves (and of course rage and pain are a natural, essential part of this human process) but to really show who we are in response to it. And I think Who We Are is going to be what changes everything -- what is already changing it.

Okay, on to something to really celebrate:

DADT fic!!!!!!!!!!! You RULE! I cannot WAIT!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!