Hi all,
I recently joined this site/community and am officially a Eunuch as of a week ago. I recently posted a suggestion for a Facebook group in the suggestion section that hasnt been posted yet by the admin. In addition to that, I was hoping to get additional ideas/thoughts for how we can raise further awareness of our community and the MTE Gender Identity. I feel there is a big unmet need for information and a greater understanding of who we are, even within the LGBTQ Movement.
Promoting/Raising Awareness of MTE
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Re: Promoting/Raising Awareness of MTE
You are 100pct correct.
Harvey Milk was a gay rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s. He lived in both New York and San Francisco. His answer as to how the gay community would become accepted and how accurate knowledge and awareness would be spread applies to your question as well.
Commissioner Milk said that gay rights and acceptance would not be won through regulations, laws or court battles.
He said that gay rights would be won at the dinner table.
At the time it was almost unheard of for a gay man or woman to "come out" to their family and friends. As it turned out, Harvey Milk was right. Far more was accomplished by people just being themselves and not hiding in the who they were to their family.
Sadly, Commissioner Milk was murdered on November 27, 1978 in his office in the San Francisco city hall. The gunman (whose name I will not mention) was upset that gay people were "taking over" the neighborhood he'd grown up in. He also killed Mayor George Mascone.
In 1978 anti-sodomy laws were still on the books and being enforced throughout the United States. In 1986 the US Supreme Court upheld anti-sodomy laws in the case Bowers v. Hardwick (it was a 5-4 decision in which SCOTUS ruled that since the constitution didn't give people the right to have butt sex, no such right existed)
It was not until 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, that SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that all anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
However, in many states, it is still legal to openly refuse to hire someone who is gay or to refuse to rent or sell to them.
Harvey Milk was correct, if someone knows a person is openly gay, they are less likely to care when they know an openly gay person who is in their family or who they work with.
I'm not opposed to the idea of a Facebook page or any other way of communicating MTE sexuality. I do think that the best way to make people aware is by being open about it. Get the biggest hammer you can find and knock down that closet door.
Harvey Milk was a gay rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s. He lived in both New York and San Francisco. His answer as to how the gay community would become accepted and how accurate knowledge and awareness would be spread applies to your question as well.
Commissioner Milk said that gay rights and acceptance would not be won through regulations, laws or court battles.
He said that gay rights would be won at the dinner table.
At the time it was almost unheard of for a gay man or woman to "come out" to their family and friends. As it turned out, Harvey Milk was right. Far more was accomplished by people just being themselves and not hiding in the who they were to their family.
Sadly, Commissioner Milk was murdered on November 27, 1978 in his office in the San Francisco city hall. The gunman (whose name I will not mention) was upset that gay people were "taking over" the neighborhood he'd grown up in. He also killed Mayor George Mascone.
In 1978 anti-sodomy laws were still on the books and being enforced throughout the United States. In 1986 the US Supreme Court upheld anti-sodomy laws in the case Bowers v. Hardwick (it was a 5-4 decision in which SCOTUS ruled that since the constitution didn't give people the right to have butt sex, no such right existed)
It was not until 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, that SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that all anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
However, in many states, it is still legal to openly refuse to hire someone who is gay or to refuse to rent or sell to them.
Harvey Milk was correct, if someone knows a person is openly gay, they are less likely to care when they know an openly gay person who is in their family or who they work with.
I'm not opposed to the idea of a Facebook page or any other way of communicating MTE sexuality. I do think that the best way to make people aware is by being open about it. Get the biggest hammer you can find and knock down that closet door.