I never spat on holding my wife’s hand as I walked down the street.
I have never been called a servant for kissing her in a public place.
I have never enjoyed a cocktail in my local watering hole with my wife and our friends when the police embark on and arrest us all, shaking us with his night fists and throwing us to prison.
I was never afraid of putting a picture of me and my wife on my desk, fearing that someone could hate me, call me names under their breath, or discriminate against me.
I was never afraid to talk about my wife in an interview with work, fearing that the interviewer would not hire me.
When my grandfather died, my family was not said that he could not be buried in a plot to my grandmother.
When my wife and I went to receive our marriage license, we were not responded or said we couldn’t get married.
These are the reasons not to need a holiday of heterosexuality. We are not discriminated against, we are not directed, we are not beaten or killed, just for whom we are attracted.
But these are the reasons we need gay festivities.
Gay and transsexual men and women have historically been discriminated, marginalized, harassed, punished, arrested, closed, beaten, even killed.
And this discrimination continues today.
As the recently listed editorial board of the civil servant, Idaho’s legislation has adopted a resolution calling for the US Supreme Court to annul the Obergefell decision, which legalizes the same -sex marriage, and the legislature has continued to add the words “sexual or identity” Protects protection against firearms or “human rights Law”, refusing to offer gay protection from Evika or Fire to refuse to offer gay protection against being sagged or fierce to respond. The legislature refuses to eliminate the language in a constitutional amendment, which makes gay marriages illegal, and they do not eliminate the unconstitutional law, which makes a crime to be gay three years ago.
But the people who organize the so -called Hetero Great Festival in Boyz in June somehow think they are attacking.
“We are a merciless tribe of seeking the truth that is difficult to sway to protect, honor and strengthen traditional family values against a world that has disappeared,” according to the group’s website. “With fearless grit and unshakable determination, we expose the clowns that are torn apart at the heart of the family, arming the masses with clarity and combining the bold to stand tall. Our combat lines are placed-the family is not negotiated-and we are here to fight for it, without a retreat.
Fighting lines? No retreat? No excuses? Bets are everything? My kindness, such doom and darkness, such fear and anger.
It always seems strange to me that some people feel as attacked, threatened in some way, that it is a zero -sum game, to them, that if you protect the rights of a particular group of people who somehow give up your own rights.
I never felt that my marriage was under attack; I have never felt threatened. Keeping the right of my gay friends, neighbors and family members to marry whom they want in any way to violate my values or the way I live my life.
What are these people so afraid of?
“This is not your limited waking festival,” the organizers said.
This type of homophobic perpetuation of stereotypes shows exactly why we should have festivals of pride.
Honestly, I feel sad for the organizers. They are simply ignorant of the struggles of others and they are completely lacking in empathy for their neighbors.
“This festival is more than an event – it is a declaration that faith, family and freedom are worth defending themselves,” according to the organizers.
But only certain families and only certain freedoms for certain people.
Of course, I do not intend to jump into the back of a van with U-Haul with a bunch of masked marauders or fly flags of pride from my F-150, bump my horns and try to break their small celebration.
This group has the freedom to do what he wants.
But just don’t hold a festival in the name of my sexual orientation.
I don’t need it.
Scott Makintosh is an editor of the opinion of Idaho’s state man. You can send him an email at smcintosh@idahostatesman.com or call him on 208-377-6202. Sign up for the free weekly newsletter by email on Idaho.