This 'Reign of Terror' Is Not O.KKK!
Terrorism : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.
Reign of Terror : : a state or a period of time marked by violence often committed by those in power that produces widespread terror
Terror : violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands
How many little children have taken their lives this year because of the relentless attacks and bullying of them because of their sexual orientation? I wish it were just one, but even one is too many. Let me throw another number out there for you. Two! That's how many degree's of separation violent and brutal gaybashing is away from me. I have several friends who personally know victims of hate inspired beatings! Brandon Patrick (pictured below) was attacked by three assailants who tried to saw his scalp from his body, for no reason other than being gay. Someone I know, knows him personally. Several of my friends know this young nursing school couple on the Oregon Coast for spring break earlier this year who were viciously beat unconscious because of their sexual orientation.
I've got one more number for you. Nine. That's how many guys jumped me in the alley outside of a gay club in Kentucky. Why? Because I was gay. Fortunately for me, gaybashers are often weak and scared people who prey upon those they perceive as weak. They were not expecting me to have been trained in and taught unarmed combat, they were not expecting the Tranny to come flying down the alley in my car ready to pick them off with her 9 inch blade pulled out of her purse, and with the trunk open for me to grab my bat. The two times I was attacked in drag, they were not expecting me to fight back. Even in the story of Brandon Patrick, his assailants who overpowered him three to one were deterred when he was determined to fight back. Others have not been so lucky. Just over a month after the passing of Proposition 8 in California last year I wrote of the 28-year-old lesbian attacked and gang raped by 4 men in New York. Story
I remember hearing about this kind of terrorist attacks; this reign of terror before. It was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Their purpose was to intimidate and terrorize in order to further the cause of a particular group of people at the detriment of another group. In 2009 are we so non evolved as a people that we still allow these attacks on innocent people by the state and federal backing of laws that are meant to keep one group inferior to another group?
Proposition 8, Referendum 71, the so called "defense of marriage act", Don't Ask Don't Tell and gaybashings are all lynchings of the GLBTQ community. They are meant to break us down. To coerce us to give them what they demand. That we disappear and go back into hiding. That we live our lives as lies and we withhold our love from those we are truly pulled to. Hiding behind white sheets of, "we're protecting the children", and "God made marriage" and "homosexuality is sin."
Finally, I'll leave you with the words of Malcolm X that still fit this day. "The time will come when that sheet will be ripped off. If the Federal government doesn't take it off, then we'll take it off!" I could not have said it better myself!
Posted by Justice Calo Reign at Monday, October 19, 2009 6:11 PM 
Categories: glbtq,Equality,Politics,Protests,LGBTQ
Tags: hate crimes GLBT gay bashing legalize gay marriage referendum 71 prop 8 discrimination
Categories: glbtq,Equality,Politics,Protests,LGBTQ
Tags: hate crimes GLBT gay bashing legalize gay marriage referendum 71 prop 8 discrimination
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