What are disabled peoples opinions on LGBT?

Question

I know this might be a tad innapropriate question.. but since it is in the same category and since both groups essentially want equality what are your opinions? Are you on par for/against LGBT people? Do you feel that you have things in common because of the need for equality and respect and to be treated like everyone else?

Yes of course it ranges, but i see that there is a connection.. so I am personally asking specifically to disabled people what their opinions are and if they notice that both disabled people and LGBT are essentailly asking for the same thing -- equality.

Go sherryn! I agree with your OPINION =)

Isotope I didnt mean to insult you.. but you obviosuly havent undertood my oint of view. I fyou have personal issues and are personally against LGBT people then fine thats up to you and your prejudice. But the connection is that BOTH disabled people and LGBT people expererience prejudice, inequality, are looked down upon in most instances and are not treated in the same way other people are. There is a VERY clear connection, if you cant see that then im sorry that you have been blind-sighted or have misinterpreted what is being said.

Answer 1

I do see a lot of similarities between the way disabled people are treated and the way LGBT people are treated. Both groups fall outside the parameters of what is generally considered 'normal', and some people think of that as being sub-human and therefore not deserving of all the rights accorded to the non-disabled or straight.

It is my hope that all peoples regardless of race, sex, degree of 'ableness', sexual orientation/preference, and whatever are recognized as fully human beings and are treated as such.

Answer 2

I haven't changed my feelings toward that community since my disability. I don't have hardware to prove my disability, only the low income and careful lifestyle. I've accepted that I got to live instead of die, so the necessary results still beat six feet under.

About ten years before my disability occurred, a gay friend offered his second bedroom while I looked for an apartment, leaving a bad marriage. The five years we remained friends taught me what gay people go through seeking housing and keeping a stiff upper lip in face of insults. Joined StraightButNotNarrow and remain a supporter.

And I'm not sure your presumption that there's a community for the disabled here, grouped with Seniors and LGBT, for a reason of commonality. I come here to see whether I know anything that will help anybody else, and to see answers to something I wondered. I don't come for equality and respect, but I don't have hardware to prove a disability. Since the laws have changed so, that ramps are everywhere and it's illegal to deny employment anyway, I wonder whether anybody with a disability is here for equality and respect. I kind of suspect that we all come for the reasons I come.

Answer 3

Most of us here are disabled, but we consider ourselves or are always wanting to be considered equal to the so called normal people all the time.

A lot of 'normal' people come under the LGBT category and a lot of disable people come under the same category too.

Normal people exhibit various shades of feeling for LGBT so you should expect the same from the disabled...various opinions. Ofcourse the disabled may see LGBT as their kins who are treated just as badly as them, but this way arent we unknowing creating two different groups, namely-normal and ABNORMAL(disabled, lgbt..blah blah)

I mean keeping aside the jargon of how these groups are always looked down upon theres not much we can do really.

I think the forums are a good place to vent out frustrations and seek support but they rarely do anything for the upliftment of this particular strata. Again, the question is: Do we need an upliftment? whats wrong with us anyway? Vicious circle.....

PS: my answer might not be what you are looking for but this is how I feel about the whole groupie thing.

Answer 4

Good question...

I support equality for everyone, otherwise it would not be equality. Homosexuals and Persons with disabilities do tend to get the short end of the stick in society. I refuse to turn a blind eye to anyone in need and see us all as equals. Unfortunately the world seems to be consumed by fear.

Answer 5

In my experience if they are straight disabled people they usually go by the general consensus that it's wrong. I personally don't have a problem with gay people, or MTF transsexuals however I've had some issues with the bicurious/lesbian/bisexual female community so it's hard for me to be open to the idea that a woman would want to be a man. And also I'm proud to be a woman, so it runs deep. Ask the GLBTs what they think of disabled people.

Answer 6

Well, since many of my best girlfriends happen to be men, & some of them are also disabled (mentally & physically), then I suppose to me there is nothing different or strange in this category, in my OPINION. Give me an open minded person any day of the week over a closed minded church biggot!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Having mild autism and being L,G,B,orT is very similar. I suffer discrimination for who I am and it has made me have more empathy for other groups who are likewise discriminated against just for being who they are as well. It boggles my mind how some people feel it is OK to deny civil rights to groups they don't care for or understand.

Answer 9

I'm both permanently disabled and a lesbian. I'm pretty much for any hard working & productive individual. I could care less who you sleep with or how you are disabled. You're a person, and if you contribute to society, then quite frankly I don't much care what you do.

Answer 10

I see the connection

lol, your question made me think of a friend of mine that I met at a blind convention who happens to be both blind and gay. I bet he'd see the connection too :)