Why do homosexuals compare their discrimination with what black people had to endure?! It is so not the same!!

Question

Homosexuals can hide their sexuality......plus it's a behavior. You do not choose to be black.

Answer 1

Prejudice is prejudice, my child. when one is persecuted; you can't start comparing apples to oranges and saying well you don't deserve rights because you're not born this way. I could say that many blacks are born light enough to pass as white so they could be considered Caucasian and therefore don't deserve special treatment because of the colour of their skin.
Do you see how silly that sounds? If Humans are being denied equal rights that other Humans are enjoying it's wrong. It doesn't matter the colour of your skin or the sex of whom one is sleeping with.
If you encourage this prejudice it simply makes you as guilty as the black and white traders who enslaved your people to begin with. Hard truth? Live with it if you want to encourage prejudice because that's all you're going to become -- as guilty as everyone else who denies equal rights to their fellow Human.

Answer 2

What the hell are you talking about?! Maybe you should read up on the history of how homosexuality was treated in the past. You do realise that in many, many countries around the world homosexuality is still punishable by imprisonment or death right? You know the phrase "coming out"? Yeah, it's a term used to describe homosexuals who pretend to be heterosexual because they're afraid of what people will think/do if they knew they were gay. Gay bashings don't just happen on "rare occasions", they happen all the time all over the place. Why do you think there are clubs and bars specifically for gay people to meet? Maybe because it's safe to hit on somebody there without getting punched out. Never heard the phrase "those damn homosexuals are taking all the good jobs" but i have heard "you're an embarrassment to the country", "dykes are so disgusting, it's unnatural and sick, they should all just die", "i hate dykes", and, an oldie but a goodie "i'm sorry but we don't want you here, please leave". I've also been spat on and assaulted and phone videoed because i had the audacity to hold my girlfriend's hand in public. Just so you know, in the past homosexuality has been met with complete social exclusion, death, imprisonment and beatings. Comparing homosexual discrimination to black discrimination is not "over reaching for the sympathy vote", it's justified.

Answer 3

Yes, it's different, but it's still discrimination. Leaving aside that you are perpetuating the horrible skin color versus sexual orientation choice that so many black LGBTs--and there are many--have to deal with, there are a few differences that straight black people don't have to deal with.

You can hide it. Do you know what that means? No calling your parents to say you've met somebody. No picture on the desk or in your wallet. No telling who you went to the movie with. No kissing or holding hands on the street. And worst of all, feeling totally alone 'cause other people are scared and hiding too.

Most black people have black parents, at least one. Most LGBT people have straight parents. Think about that. If you are hassled for being black, your parents can tell you how they dealt with being called certain names. Whereas there are also certain names for LGBT people, and your parents may not only not help, but call you those names themselves!

So hiding it doesn't feel good. It's not chosen, either, any more than your straightness is. I'm sure you didn't decide to be straight--it chose *you*. Same with us. We feel it from the time we're little, for the most part. I remember telling my first grade teacher, "I don't care if I marry a boy or a girl, as long as they're cute, smart, and rich." (I got a cute, smart woman. :-) My teacher looked horrified, too.

Please think about what you read when you check for answers.

Answer 4

Being homosexual is not a behavior. It's a sexual orientation. I love the color blue. I always have loved it and always will. My room is blue and a large portion of my clothes are blue. I didn't wake up one day and say "I think I'll like blue for the rest of my existence." it just seems to appeal to me more so than any other color. That is the way it is when you love someone. You love them because they appeal to you, not because you say "I think I'll love....that person!" If you don't understand this, you need to meditate on passion. I hope this cleared your misunderstanding up. :)

Now, onto answering your question. The reason why homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people identify with the African-American discrimination is because it's something that was fought with for a long time. It's still being argued today. Personally, I don't think society believes it's socially-acceptable to be in an interracial marriage. (I think it's fine, my sister is in one and I fully support her). The main thing they share is the fact that people seem to think they're below the general public. 'They're a scum and they chose to belong in that part of society.' During the discrimination, both groups are ridiculed because of who they are. Neither group choose to be in this position. Another large reason the GLBT group relates with the African-American group is because when you find another person who has been through the same thing as you and has survived, it gives you hope. It's a form of comfort, which is what we all want in life.

In the end, I don't think it matters to anyone what anyone else wants in life. Who I want to be with, and share the journey of life with in no way affects my neighbors any more than anyone else would!

Answer 5

Did you get what you came here for? Raise a little hate and discontent? Or just to stir the pot a little?

I really feel sorry for people who do not take the time to do their research and think things through. All the points made by the other people who have answered as to there orientation being part of who they are is true. They can't change anymore than a rock can become a bird by its own will.

I wish I could put you into my shoes or better yet into the shoes of a black gay person in Jamaca. Then you would see true hate in the most vile and evil form ever taken. Gay people do not live long there.

Hiding our sexuality?? I have to laugh. That would be like asking every single black, chinese, Irish, German, Polish immagrant to the US to go back 200 years and live in that era.

No it is not behavior. Behavior can be modified. Being gay cannot. As a kid 7-8 years old I knew I like boys. I didn't know any better. As I grew older I found out what it was all about and when I told my parents I was thrown out of the house.

I didn't choose to be white or black or yellow or any color. I didn't choose to be German or Dutch or English or Irish by nationality.

I certainly didn't choose to be gay vs hetro or bi or transgendered.

Every day I see people come here ranting about how they don't see how people can choose to be gay. Yet not a one so far has come back to appologize after being asked to really look at the hate and intolerence affects their daily lives.

You really need to look into your heart and see where these feelings of intolerence are coming from and change YOUR BEHAVIOR to one of love and tolerence for your fellow man.

Answer 6

Discrimination is discrimination....It doesn't matter if it is manifested as an attitude about race or an attitude about a lifestyle. Every person has the right to live life without bias. Gay people are denied mortgages, jobs, homes, insurance, and any number of things that straight people take for granted. We face hatred every day just as black people did during the civil rights movements in the 60's. We are trying to face down those people who would reduce us to second class citizens just as the students did to Gov. George Wallace on the steps of the University of Alabama for the right to attend the same university as their white peers. Gay people are not asking for special treatment, just for the right to live their lives as their neighbors. We strive to build a life, raise a family, and pursue happiness. We can't and shouldn't have to hide who are no more than a black person should have to deny who they are or expect less from life than their white counterparts!

Answer 7

Yep, we can stay in the closet and deny who we are so that bigots don't have to deal with us, all right. And people of the "wrong" religious beliefs can worship in secret so that they don't offend those in the religious majority.

Discrimination is discrimination. And bigots will always find a justification.

And homosexuality is not a "behavior". It's an orientation, not something we do, but something we are.

Answer 8

Even though I'm straight they don't chose to be gay either and a hate crime is a hate crime no matter if is because if race or sexual orientation and they are still fighting for equal justice under the law and it's going on 30+ years now and the fight not even CLOSE to being over, as I remember it took African Americans between 20 and 30 years to realize equality too bad the LGBT community can't say the same!

Answer 9

So are you saying it's homosexuals' fault that we are discriminated against, because we can just pretend to be straight? Or that we chose to be gay so we get what we have coming?

I'm not going to pretend to be anything whether that sits well with you or not, and I didn't choose to be gay (you're really going to have to take my word for it), and I take it by your little rant that you're only opposed to discrimination as long as it's directed at you. Which is why you are a nitwit.

Answer 10

Because they want more power, specifically in government, so they try to get under people's skin to try and get their point across, even though their discrimination is completely incomparable. I don't know about you, but I've been to a lot of different places, and not once have I seen separate, humiliating facilities for gays, or seen gays hosed down with fire hoses for protesting for equal rights. It's completely different and they have no room to complain in comparison to blacks. I'm not even black and I'm offended by that. It's not that they just want equal treatment, they want people to think that their lifestyle is alright, and refuse to let people have different standpoints on the issue, even if those people do treat gays the same as other people.

Answer 11

Black people got their rights sooner than gay people have. Gay people were probably fighting discrimination against homophobes before "black people" came to the americas and we still haven't won anything yet.

Why should we have to hide our sexuality? Black people don't hide what they are they're proud to be black and we're proud to be gay. "PLUS" we didnt choose to be gay!

So

Learn about more **** before you go off the deep end and not think before you ask questions.