Comments on: Gays in 2050

By: 2050 .. What Will It Be Like For LGBTs ? | Focus On The Rainbow

2050 .. What Will It Be Like For LGBTs ? | Focus On The Rainbow — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:01:51 +0000

[...] friends at The Washington Blade, and in particular today Erwin de Leon takes a look at the year 2050 and what being part of the [...]

By: Doctor Whom

Doctor Whom — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:02:22 +0000

Conservatives and Christians will do what they do best — namely, rewrite history — to say that they were always on our side. They will then say how outrageous it is to compare gay rights to rights for whatever people they hate then.

By: Brigid

Brigid — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:53 +0000

I agree that we will probably have full legal citizenship in 40 years (marriage equality, right to serve in the military openly) and there will probably be better hate crimes legislation, too. Who knows, maybe there will even be fairer laws about what is required of trans people to be recognized as their self-identified gender by the government – an important and *basic* trans rights issue that is often overlooked by cis queers.

But I can’t say I believe that we won’t fear being raped, beaten, or killed for who we are. Are you kidding? I’m a woman. Women gained legal citizenship a long time ago. But I, and many other women, still legitimately fear being raped just for being women. Men and women of color have full legal rights in this country, but institutional racism still exists and people of color are much more likely to be victims of violent crimes than white people are.

This is not to say that queer issues are the same as race issues or gender issues (except where queer issues ARE gender issues), but to point out that in other situations where socially and legally marginalized groups have attained full legal citizenship, social acceptance and safety has not necessarily followed. Will our lives be safer and freer in 40 years? Probably. But will America be queer heaven on earth? Most assuredly not. And as a middle-class white queer cis woman, I think it’s important that people like me remember that poorer queers, queers of color, and trans people do not automatically reap as many benefits of progressive legislation as we do.

By: The Morning After: “This Is Why I Hate Cunts” Edition - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:01:50 +0000

[...] The Washington Blade asks, where will the queer community be 40 years from now? My guess: Colonizing the Moon in an attempt to escape the evil robot overlords that threaten to [...]

By: DC John

DC John — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:04:54 +0000

Some immediate thoughts….
1-Those in their 20s will be in their 60s…if they take care of themselves.
2-More open LBGT people in elected office.
3-Adrian Fenty will have grown up.
4-The Washington Blade will still be around (in some format!)
5-The Nats will still be in last place
6-A press release from some agency will be released saying that we are THIS close to finding an HIV cure.
7-METRO Red Line will have been turned into a bicycle path.
8-Rehoboth Beach will be sold to the highest bidder after all the Lingos move out.
9-The Mall will extend to Annapolis.
10-People will still read lists!

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:31:55 +0000

Unless the Talibangelicalss take over and destroy America. the same people who gave us slavery, the kkk, and segregation.

And a very ignorant, biblical based group whose ideas got frozen hundreds of years ago.

Get out and vote. And damn it, no matter if you are repub, dem, independent,….

Realize that if the repubs take over big time, you can kiss america goodby.

It happened after the Civil war. We had black senators etc. But by 1900, the KKK and the criminals of the southern religious culture had done their job. And segregation was the law of the south.

Are you doing your part to stop the onslaught not just on gays, but on all the middle class and poor people in this nation by the republian/tea party talibangelicals.