All Men Created Equal?

by Antonese

Gay. Lesbian. Bisexual. These loaded words build lots of emotion and at times controversy. Lot's of time history try's to exclude these groups(also known as LBGT). Today's society substitutes bad with the word "gay" giving "gay" a negative meaning. What we may or may not believe doesn't change and shouldn't change cover some truth of history. Such as the Gay Rights Movement.

During the year of 1951 the first Gay Rights Organization was created, The Mattachine Society. Harry Hay formed the organization and is known as the "founder" of Gay Rights Movement. This organization had 4 primary goals:

1-Unify homosexuals isolated from their own kind.
2-Educate homosexuals and heterosexuals toward an ethical homosexual culture paralleling the cultures of the Negro,Mexican and Jewish peoples.
3-Lead the more socially conscious homosexual to provide leadership to the whole mass of social deviates.
4-Assist gays who are victimized daily as a result of oppression.

The Mattachine Society later went above ground organization that reached out to a lesbian organization called "Daughters of Bilitis" in the year of 1980. Before that, on June 8th of 1969, the Gays fought back against police,who did a daily raid against them, called the Stonewall Riots. The Stonewall Inn was a bar owned by the Mafia in New York City. Many transvestites, Lesbians, Gay men, and homeless youth were among the sense of the bar. On June they decided to get together and fight against the police. A year after the Stonewall Riot the first Gay Pride Parade was taken place in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

During the Civil Rights Movement African-Americans were fighting against those who were refusing service based on the skin color and nationality. Most see that and say that is completely wrong. It doesn't matter what color you are, we are all equal. That same person will then hear, During the Gay Rights Movement store owners refused service based on some one's sexual orientation. For some reason that is beyond my understanding, that same person will go, "oh" and leaver it at that. What makes it suddenly okay for someone to refuse service based on sexual orientation yet it is wrong to discriminate against the color of one's skin? Discrimination is wrong. On all levels. The refusal of service for anything is wrong whether it be because or gender, race, sexual orientation, or disabilities!

Whether are not people like it , there was a Gay Rights Movement. Whether or not you agree with there sexual choices, no one should isolate them. Whether or not you like them, they are still human. Whether or not it's right to discriminate? Well, we know the answer to that! "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.". All men are created equal!

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