Comments on: It Will Come http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:30:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Margo Moon http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Margo Moon Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:15:03 +0000 http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/?p=542#comment-66 Heh. The link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/opinion/07rich.html?em Heh. The link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/opinion/07rich.html?em

]]> By: Margo Moon http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Margo Moon Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:07:50 +0000 http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/?p=542#comment-65 Along these lines, let me recommend an excellent NYT op-ed column from Saturday. Along these lines, let me recommend an excellent NYT op-ed column from Saturday.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Chris Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:35:56 +0000 http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/?p=542#comment-59 Beautifully put, Margo. That's the case with any minority's struggle: a vocal enough part of the majority is needed to accomplish anything. Beautifully put, Margo. That’s the case with any minority’s struggle: a vocal enough part of the majority is needed to accomplish anything.

]]> By: gayborhood http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-58 gayborhood Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:14:12 +0000 http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/?p=542#comment-58 Margo stated that all eloquently, just as you did in your article. I'm very proud to have so many straight people in my life who not only believe we should equal rights, but stand up and tell others because they do think it's the right thing to do. Margo stated that all eloquently, just as you did in your article. I’m very proud to have so many straight people in my life who not only believe we should equal rights, but stand up and tell others because they do think it’s the right thing to do.

]]> By: Margo Moon http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/2010/02/it-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Margo Moon Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:22:26 +0000 http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/?p=542#comment-55 Stonewall as our "Bunker Hill," those of us engaged in the fight as "generals" and this final era in the quest for equality as the "Battle of the Bulge" (<em>ahem</em>). It <strong>has</strong> felt like war at times, hasn't it? Except the enemy in this one has been so very close - driving us to school when we were little, teaching us in those schools, making the queer jokes at lunch and in the locker room, dating us, marrying us, growing up in the homes we make for them...it goes on and on. The straight and gay worlds are so intricately enmeshed, it's a wonder to me that we've remained the last major group of Americans to have to fight for equal protection under the law. The echo of hope in this article is amazingly clear. I think part of the credit for that rightly goes to the amazing heterosexual friends we've all made through the course of this war, those strong family members, co-workers, and neighbors who have refused to sink into the comfort of acceptance and have stood beside us because it felt like the right thing to do. Stonewall as our “Bunker Hill,” those of us engaged in the fight as “generals” and this final era in the quest for equality as the “Battle of the Bulge” (ahem). It has felt like war at times, hasn’t it? Except the enemy in this one has been so very close – driving us to school when we were little, teaching us in those schools, making the queer jokes at lunch and in the locker room, dating us, marrying us, growing up in the homes we make for them…it goes on and on. The straight and gay worlds are so intricately enmeshed, it’s a wonder to me that we’ve remained the last major group of Americans to have to fight for equal protection under the law.

The echo of hope in this article is amazingly clear. I think part of the credit for that rightly goes to the amazing heterosexual friends we’ve all made through the course of this war, those strong family members, co-workers, and neighbors who have refused to sink into the comfort of acceptance and have stood beside us because it felt like the right thing to do.

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