"Segregation" rant and lots of questions?

Question

Why is the LGBT group with the People with Disabilities and Senior Citizens groups? Does this offend anyone other than me? And why when you go to a book store they have separate areas for LGBT books and African American books. This makes no sense to me at all. They should be where they are categorized, Novel, Fiction etc Why is it that as people, LGBT and African Americans we want to be equal but we want our own section in book stores? And if we don't, if we want to be considered equal then why don't we complain and do something about it? Why when you turn on the TV you see black families and white families and all of them are heterosexual? When will we finally see interracial couples and g*y couples and transgender couples? This is what forms our kids minds. This is what they base their morals and their values on. What they see in Ad's and the dolls they play with. When is someone going to stand up to this government, and this corporations and do something? Why don't we do that today?

Sorry about that. I'm real heated today :P

Answer 1

I understand completely where you're coming from. But it's also the same reason why we celebrate certain days, occassions - to make sure we never forget of our struggles, and how much we have accomplished, and how long we still have to traverse on the road to equality.

From a marketing standpoint, I'm sure some pencil pusher will say that it's "easier" if we can categorize a book as "g*y" - ditto with films and music. And while they do tend to "segregate" us, think of the other side: It's widely available now. A few years back, there would not have been an aisle for any form of literature that was blatant/explicit about it being "catering" to "homosexual desires". (Of course, we've always had Proust and Wilde. Back off, English majors! I know what I'm talking about.)

The first step in our community overcoming prejudice is to make it plain for all to see - we need to identify ourselves and make the bashers see us straight in the eye. Having "our" books, films, music, etc., labeled and made known is an important step in that direction - it gives them perspective that we also suffer heartache, experience joy, and the whole gamut of human experiences and emotions - much like they do in "their" books, films, music, etc.

The day when we will no longer see people as g*y/straight/bi/trans is still a ways off, but we are making strides in closing that gap, even if that is just at glacial speed. What matters is that we do something about it.

Answer 2

Here's what I think has happened. Many in the black community and the g*y community have raised so much h**l to get attention and respect, that corporations and businesses are now seeing themselves as catering to them and no one has stopped them. I too agree that there should be no segregation, no setting aside. It singles those people out and many don't want that. We're all just humans and that's how we should be treated.  

Answer 3

a couple of years ago in my area on cinco de mayo all the latinos didn't go to work/school or spend any money as a protest. what we need to do is organize something like this nation wide but do it for an entire week idk it might work