Relational Rights

Per Shakes, today is National Coming Out Day. Shakes posted a list of reasons why she, a straight woman, is so fierce an advocate for gay rights. I want to add my own.

Gay rights are my rights. Yours too.

If gay rights aren’t a reality, we’re voting “yes” on standardized sexuality; on forcing all of us to goosestep to a sexual norm. And I may not be gay, but I ain’t normal.

Is anyone? (Actually, yes, some people are.) Most of us like a little kink, or have strolled into the forbidden zone. Few of us want to be confined by a bunch of heterosexual rules that expand like housework to fill the space allotted them.

Gay rights are human rights. They are relational rights. They are our rights no matter who we are.

4 comments

  1. sari0009 says:

    Well put. True to incredible depths.

  2. deblipp says:

    Thanks, Sari.

  3. While it might not accuately reflect the status quo of pagan belief what I tell Gay Marriage Ban Prononets is this:

    It’s NOT about Gay Rights, it’s about Monogamy.
    Are you for it or against it??

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