I'm tired of everything.... [View All]

For many generations, we as gay Americans have supported the democrats over the republicans. They told us that if we'd work with them and vote for them, that they'd do everything they could to make our lives easier and to push our relationships to a place where they'd be virtually indistinguishable from husband and wife.

We voted for clinton because he called for an end to the ban on openly gay individuals serving in the military. We sat back and silently watched when he broke this promise and issued his "don't ask, don't tell" proclamation, and when he signed the DOMA into law.

Under his presidency the democrats could have passed ENDA (they had two branches of government and more than enough power in that instance), but they didn't.

Even with a republican presidency, in the last four years we've seen the number of people that support the goals of ENDA increase exponentially. Today, it has over 60% of the public's support. Still, the democrats sit on their hands and let the waters of public opinion pass them by.

Even with all the time, all of the money, all of the effort we as gay and lesbian Americans put into them, they can't find the courage and stand up for us in one instance. It's been 11 years since democrats had control of both houses of congress, and not a damn thing has changed.

Between the party that hates us openly the party that can't stand to talk about us, where does it leave us?

We can blame the voting machines and we can blame the republicans for our misfortunes, but some of the blame has to go to ourselves at the party that we've chosen to represent our interests.

As a fraction in the democratic party, gays and lesbians should hold significant sway, but we don't. Some of us would rather sit at home and fuck our boyfriend/girlfriend and carry on with our little lives. Others would rather fuck anything that walks in the room. Neither group really cares.

So I'm using my 1000th post to ask a simple question. If the democrats don't care to work for us and some of us don't care to rally them, why should I care--why should any of us care?