Obsessed With “The Gay Agenda?”

If you say, “I don’t have a problem with gay people; I have a problem with them shoving it in my face,” you might be obsessed.

Martie Sirois
Gender From The Trenches

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The only “gay agenda” I’ve ever known is the one frequently invoked by people who tend to be of the ultra-conservative persuasion. I think —I could be wrong, but I think— it refers to what they seem to be utterly preoccupied with. Or, in other words, what I call “gay folks’ privacy.” I can’t imagine any reason (other than subconscious jealousy, intimidation, or fear) as to why these gay-agenda-obsessed people presume that another person’s sexual orientation is any of their business in the first place.

Likewise, these same people tend to be heavily invested in policing everyone else’s genitals — I mean, that’s really what they’re asking when they want to know whether someone is a boy or a girl, right? “What genitals do you have?” Which, also, is no one else’s business (unless if maybe the person in question is a prospective romantic partner?). Yet, these people are very interested in knowing what’s under there, just as they’re interested in gay peoples’ sex lives.

These are also the people who think there’s a political agenda attached to every LGBTQ person, ally, or advocate; that an LGBTQ label can be classified as a “lifestyle” or…

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Martie Sirois
Gender From The Trenches

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