Showing posts with label Harvey Fierstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvey Fierstein. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Today's Quote, and something to think about

If they can so easy pass laws to ban us from Marriage, none of our rights can be taken for granted.

If community standards are, reason enough to Legislate anti-anytype discrimination, the backside of our freedom as begun

I beg you to take a good look at the election result from around the country, get in touch with your anger, and put it to work.

If we do not, I promise our community will be attack by the fascist right in the name of decency and family values with unprecedented vigor, better to find your anger now then to wait for the next election and ask where are my rights.
by Harvey Fierstein

Friday, December 26, 2008

Found this over at Joe My God Blog, very interesteing

"A couple of boys were calling my best friend a faggot one unhappy day at summer camp. Courses of action seemed slim to my adolescent mind. I could stand up for Jack branding myself a fag as well and insuring myself a miserable summer, or I could join in with the name callers, lose my closest friend, but assure my standing with the majority. I sacrificed my friend on the altar of popularity. I don’t think I need to tell you that political expediency was a terrific short-term solution but a long-term nightmare. My summer concluded uneventfully but none of those boys became my friend or did me any favors. And forty years later I still feel the loss of Jack along with a piece of my self respect that I can never win back. Mine was an act of cowardice and betrayal.

"It seems Obama is now maneuvering through the summer camp of his political adolescence and is about to make the same bad choice as I. He can call the placing of a hate monger like Rick Warren on the world dais political healing or inclusiveness or any other nicety he’d like, but I call it pandering to the lowest instinct of the worst kind of politics.

"President Elect Obama, your victory was made possible in no small part to the votes and wallets of the gay and lesbian community along with our supporters. Turning your back on us does not make you more mainstream American. It just makes you a coward." - Harvey Fierstein,

Children should't be subject to life long medical choices

Very interesting statement, which I'm sure the #transinc community will claim to be Transphobic.. in natural. There is nothing bias ...