What I mean is this:
When first coming out of the closet, a GLBT person may feel sensitive and vulnerable when confronted with the harassment of straight people and right winged fundamentalists.
Then, as time goes on, that feeling changes to one possibly of anger, defensiveness, and "gung-ho" involvement in political activities and GLBT aweareness, becuase the GLBT person has gotten comfortable in their identity, but still wants to stop the harassment for their newly out GLBT community, becuase THEY have been there themselves.
Then, over time, as we get older and wiser, listening to the harassment and the homophobia, we just stop caring, because we don't want to feed the craved attention by the homophobes and harassers. Yet, when we get to this point, and stop "feeding" the behavior, then we get accused of having an 'attitude" if we just choose to ignore these people.
2007-08-15
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender