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UNITED
WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL . . .
GLBT PEOPLE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER NOW!
My name is Tracey Stevens, and I am the owner of Amazing
Dreams Publishing and Design, which is located in Asheville,
NC.
After reading your article, "What do Lesbians Really Think
About Gay Men?" I had a very long conversation with the
man who is managing Alamo Square Book Distributors. Alamo
Square is one of the few GLBT book distributors left in
the US, and they are having huge financial issues because
so many of our bookstores are closing around the country.
During the conversation it came up about how the GLBT community
is just not unified in any way, shape, or form, and how
this thing of judging people because they are gay men or
lesbians, or transgendered lesbians, or transgendered gay
men, or not butch enough, or too fem, or whatever we as
GLBT are supposed to be on a given day, is what gives the
government and the crazy fundamentalists power over us.
Until we are able to not judge each other and stand together
and fight for our rights as human beings, why would we ever
expect anyone outside of our own culture to to do anything
any different?
If we spend our time being negative with comments like "Lipstick
lez is so out." "He's such a queen!" "She's a big dyke!"
we will never get the equal rights we deserve as tax paying
citizens of this country.
Keeping our culture separate is the way to our own demise
as far as our own rights and anything else goes. If we do
not come together and fight for what is ours as human beings,
then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
I have been an out lesbian since the 1970s, and I have seen
our community slowly deteriorating because deep inside some
of us are actually buying what is being shoved down our
throats in the media and from society. As a whole, gay people
are not supporting each other, and our businesses are folding
up and closing their doors. It is happening right before
our eyes--our own extinction--our own being shoved back
into a closet that was recently starting to open--and we
are just standing here and letting it happen!
I don't want to be an alarmist here, but it was less than
a lifetime ago when a very well known German man almost
annihilated an entire race of people, along with thousands
of GLBT people, because of very similar thinking. No one
back then thought that anything so horrible could ever happen,
but I sit here and watch the apathy of our community, and
I think how we are just a few short steps to what happened
just a few decades ago. The scary part is that more and
more people are coming to the conclusion that this German
man was a closet homosexual, and his own rage at himself
is what caused the tragedy of the Holocaust to happen in
the first place.
Terrified straight people talk about us having a Gay Agenda?
What the heck is that, and where are these meetings? We
can't even get together enough to have a pot luck, much
less overturn the government and the sanctity of marriage!
WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER NOW! Until we do, there will be
little change.
Sincerely,
Tracey Stevens
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