Then when I came out as trans and entered the world of LGBTQ+, one of the first person I met was in a 30 year relationship... POP! The lies bursts! Some laughed when marriage equality push started, the right wingers, said laughing that they don't want to have any long term so why marriage?
Since then I have met so many couples in long term relationships. On the tenth anniversary of marriage equality here in Connecticut there were an awful lot of 10 yo rug rats running around. So why did the conservatives portray as bed-hopping sleaze bag?
Back then people got arrested for being gay... so it was two old spinsters living together that just happen to share a bedroom. Wink, wink, nod. For trans people we had to have on at least three items of male clothing and socks did not count as two.
Society was dominated by Christian religious... it was against the law for two unmarried people to live together, it wasn't against the law for an unmarried woman to have a baby but society treated unwed mothers with intense stigma and shame. It was against the law for a store to be open on Sunday.
When it came to us, the conservatives portrayed homosexuality as a danger to traditional family values and as promiscuous and incapable of commitment helped paint them as deviant or immoral. To fit their fit their dogmatic propaganda against the LGBTQ+ community.
So you will be able to get married but all legal protection is stripped out of the laws so everyone can discriminate against them!
Project 2025 want to strip all of our legal protections, PolitiFact writes that Project 2025...
The document refers to heterosexual families as "ideal" and calls for the protection of faith-based federal grant recipients who do not support same-sex marriage.
Project 2025 also pushes the tried and true dogma of bed hopping gays and lesbians...
The document also says, without a citation, that nonheterosexual, intact marriages involve higher instability, financial stress, and poorer outcomes for children.
Looking at divorce rates between heterosexual and same-sex couples are about identical.
And their lies continue!
The truth was always out there. Do you remember the All in the Family episode about Edith’s cousin Liz? It aired in 1977. Liz had a long time “roommate “ Veronica. And Edith’s face when Veronica explained how she and Liz were “like married”. The world has certainly changed since then, hasn’t it?
ReplyDeleteI remember being told the same thing growing up—that queer people just “bed-hopped” and couldn’t do real relationships. Then one of the first LGBTQ+ people I met was SUPER picky. It took like 3 years in college before I ever saw him date. Totally shattered that lie for me. The propaganda runs deep.
ReplyDeleteMy partner Tim and I have been together for 47 years. Before that we were living in the same town growing up and I remember him in art class painting up in the back of the room and saying to myself that's the boy I am going to marry. We were close friends year after year after school and many things in life intervened, and then in 78 found ourselves living in Hartford together. Straying and bed hopping have never been on our agenda. As others, we know lots of couples who have been together for many years, who have been activists together and who are still going strong. Has it all been a bed of roses of course not. A few thorns along the way. OH, I remember a few straight clubs downtown where men and women lined up to get in and the big thing was finding someone for the night.
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