What small steps can we take towards equality?

Question

If true equality is our goal what small steps can we take to get there?

Answer 1

Just being nice to other people is a good mode of being when it comes to inter-personal relationships, but not politics.

So in your relationships with individuals, be tolerant and kind. In your pursuit of equal rights, be calculating, persistent, respectful and effective.

A small step toward equality is over-coming your fears, and coming out to people in your life.

Studies show that people are less likely to discriminate against gay people, if they have an openly gay friend, family member, or employer / employee.

So by coming out to your neighbor or family, you take a small step to create a world of tolerance for everyone.

If you can't come out right now, then pamper yourself, by having some gay friends who know the REAL you, and who support, you, and make a donation to a charity which fights suicide among teenage gays.

Answer 2

I think a small step would be coming out the closet to those who are family and friends. I think by doing so it would make a huge difference towards equality.

Answer 3

"True equality" can only come about if everyone's the same. People who are different are treated differently. That's a fact of life. Live with it.

Answer 4

I believe the first step to equality must start from within ourselves. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people often believe the untruth that they are inferior, sick and sinful, unloved by God. Real freedom begins not in the courts or the Congress. Real freedom begins in your head when you believe the truth about yourself. For many of us it means seeing ourselves in a whole new way.


Here are are Soulforce Beliefs that helped my in my belief that I am equal. (Not that I'm religious, I just happen to believe in God, some of these believes can help others regardless of their spiritaul beliefs)

I am a child of a loving Creator, a daughter or a son of the Soulforce at the center of the universe.

I am loved by my Creator exactly as I am. My sexual orientation is not a sickness to be healed nor a sin to be forgiven.

My sexual orientation is a gift from my Creator to be accepted, celebrated, and lived with integrity.

I am not an accident. I have a purpose. I was shaped by my Creator to love God and to assist in God's eternal struggle to win justice for all Her children who suffer injustice.

I will not discover my purpose nor realize my power (my own soulforce) until I join my Creator in doing justice (making things fair for all.)

When I join my Creator in doing justice, my own life will be renewed, empowered, and made more meaningful.
In serving others, it is as much my moral obligation to refuse to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.

Answer 5

You're already equal. The lifestyle you've chosen does not make you a third gender. You are really trying to be more equal than heterosexuals.

Answer 6

I'd say begin with your immediate circle, if you can help change their perception, they will help others change theirs. That's how it has worked for me, though I am yet to see a large scale impact of it, there has been a change, however small it is, i hope it has affected someone else's life positively.

Answer 7

Act as an equal and some as someone better than the rst of us.

Answer 8

Tolerance.

Answer 9

being able to express who we are ,and having just the respect that everyone else has without judgement of are sexuality.

Answer 10

stop treating heterosexuals as second class citizens