A shorter version for those who won’t read the longer one I posted. Hugs. Scottie
January 10, 2024
The Birmingham News reports:
History in Alabama is under attack again. A handful of state lawmakers are on a mission to erase it, to cancel those who would mention it and punish those who would protect it. No less than a revered state institution is on the line — the Alabama Department of Archives and History — and the stories it exists to preserve.
It’s LGBTQ history in lawmakers’ crosshairs. Founded in Birmingham in 2015, the Invisible Histories Project collects stories and material regarding LGBTQ history in the South — the things, it seems, many would like to pretend never happened.
In June, the Alabama Department of Archives and History invited one of the Invisible Histories Project founders, Maigen Sullivan, to speak in Montgomery about the group’s work, as part of a lunchtime lecture series. And that’s where all hell broke loose — this time.
Read the full article. As you can see in the June 2023 video below, state Sen. Chris Elliot [photo above] tried to defund the Archives shortly after the one-hour lecture took place. That bill failed. His new bill would fire the entire board.
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if I roll my eyes at these maroons monstrous stupidity any harder, they will fall out of my face.
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Hello Suze. Oh, by my dogs that love gravy don’t do that. They would steal them and run off trying to ransom them back to you for less food for poor kids.
Don’t you find it crazy how hard they hate on LGBTQIA kids and people? I do, and I can not think of a real reason other than politics or religion, which shouldn’t ever mix. Hugs. Scottie
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it is all fear. They fear those things that they think about in the dark of night, get a boner and then cry out to their “Lord” to save them. The “men” that hate LGBTQIA are those who can not stand the thought that they might be the same. I am convinced that every single human who has ever existed has had thoughts about someone of the same sex. Some of us can have a thought and accept that. Some have to beat it out of others to make themselves feel more normal.
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Well said Suze. For far too many years during the times some people have grown up in they have been indoctrinated that “those people” are all evil, bad, they cause all your problems. We had moved beyond that in schools from about the 2000s on. But now the right is on a burn the earth crusade to end any acceptance of LGBTQIA, to stop anti-bulling programs, to stop school safe places for children targeted for abuse, to return society to the 1950s. It is incredible how much money / effort they are sinking to this.
If only I had had someone to go to, some place I felt I could tell the people.
You say it is fear. But I ask, fear of what. I remember when I was a school kid and Anita Bryant was telling everyone how people like me molested kids, were evil … so on. Even as the people who repeated what she pushed were abusing me. I remember going into the military and finally being accepted even when it was acknowledged I was gay and my command welcoming me and my boyfriend. We were a signal intel unit. But that ended when a new infantry officer became our company commander. No matter what my command tried to do to protect me or promote me, he hated the gays. After saving my sat site from a prolonged outage the day I left, I did. It was that or get a dishonorable discharge.
Suze I wrote the above to explain why I don’t understand the fear of the LGBTQIA by some. Being LGBTQIA can not be forced on anyone, that is a fact. Seeing, reading, hearing that two men kiss and are in love can not make a straight kid gay, no more than all the straight kisses in movies / TV shows made gay kids straight. Reading about two male penguins raising a chick only promotes tolerance, not forced turning a kid to turn gay. I remember the recent outrage by the Florida right maga because a teacher showed an approved film that had a side plot of a gay kid, that was handled very nicely and with no sex or such action. It just had the kids and the parents being accepting of same sex attraction between boys. The teacher was crucified for showing it. I think she lost her job.
Your idea that everyone might have feelings, well sure it happens as kids grow up and develop through the years. Touching the body feels good. If you’re not told something is wrong, and it feels good, you will do it, including as you become a teenager. But as kids are born with their sexual orientation already, that won’t be changed by childhood experimentation or touching themselves. It just feels good. I know a lot of straight guys molested as kids who still grew up straight. Heck when I was in the military I had a lot of sex with “straight” guys. They were young, horny, fit, and happy to have sex even with a guy. And yes I mean both ways in all things. It was not one way.
As for your last part of some having to beat it out of others to feel normal. That is something I can attest first hand and I hear from other abuse survivors. While not all of those using my body to satisfy their desires / sexual needs did so, because some treated me very nicely, a lot of them would insult me, calling me names, calling me fagot along with stuff I had no clue what they meant. Those raping me / forcing me to give them a blow job sometimes delighted in telling me how bad I was because they either claimed I was enjoying it or that I was making them do it. Something my young mind couldn’t understand. Once when being raped the man thrust so hard I gasped and couldn’t breathe, and he said see I knew you loved it, and then made me ask him to do it again and again. Each time I struggled to breathe and then sobbed. After he finished he told me I made him be that rough.
But I remember when I was 6 or 7 years old serving / making drinks at my adoptive parent’s home for one of their card game parties, my adoptive father said to another guy “I can not understand why any man would have sex with a kid, what could a young girl have to offer”. I froze as I knew he was raping me, my butt still hurt from a few hours before, and he had bragged to others he had gotten his wife pregnant at 14. I knew better than to say anything, but I was so confused. Often I would trade my body for nice treatment from them, to not being hit, to being allowed in a soft bed rather than sleep on the floor. Yet they said all these bad things to and about me. I just couldn’t understand. Now I do of course. But maybe if there was not such a stigma and forced hate of the LGBTQIA during those times they wouldn’t have felt the need to degrade me so much. Hugs. Scottie
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fear of what they themselves feel. and stuffing things really is not healthy. talking about it (abuse) is healthy so long as the person listening has a compassionate heart.
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