Heriosm, Endurance and Freedom

by Caillean McMahon Pennsylvania Gay and Lesbian Alliance. The City of Los Angeles has just renamed a street intersection after an outspoken opponent of gay marriage and gay rights. In mutliple state legislatures, St Paul and Leviticus are being cited as the legal authorities to pass anti-gay legislation. In scattered places all over the US anti-gay rhetoric that would not have been spoken twenty-five years ago because the author would have been seen as a reactionary bigot is given wide publicity through the media. The last major election was largely a referendum on our rights, using the Bible as a weapon against us. I arrived only lately in the Gay and Lesbian community. Coming from the comfortable and protected position of someone living as a straight professional the overt anger and hatred directed at us, the openess of it and the intensity of it, the insistence upon enacting it into

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