When Did Being Gay Become A Straight Issue?

September 10, 2009

By Meghan Chavalier

If only 10% of the population is gay that means 90% of heterosexuals vote on gay issues. There's something wrong with this picture.

I'm not sure when it happened, but when did being gay become a straight issue?

Let's take gay marriage for instance. I don't remember a time when gay people were asked to vote on heterosexual marriage so why are heterosexuals allowed to vote on ours? The majority of heterosexuals spend so much time worrying about what rights gay people should be allowed to have they forget to worry about their own inconsiderate, rude, poorly raised children and their own marriages, which according to statistics aren't doing so well.

A majority of heterosexuals need to keep their hands out of the gay community and start worrying about themselves, and let us worry about us. The only thing the gay community is asking for is to have the same civil rights as every other tax paying American citizen which is guaranteed to us under the Constitution of the United States Of America.

Why do we even care what straight people think about being gay? Why do we always ask straight people what their thoughts are on the gay community? What difference does it make? They're not gay, they don't understand what it means to be gay, so what's the point?

Whenever you watch the news and a gay issue comes up the first thing they do is find the most bigoted person they can and ask them what their thoughts are about the gay community. Maybe the media should come into the community and find out what it means to be gay, and show us in the light we should be shown in, which is a community that is filled with love for one another, one that doesn't ask you to be something you're not. A community that only wants you to be true to yourself.

How many times have you been out in public and heard someone say to someone else, "That's so gay." Obviously the person is heterosexual and would have no idea what gay even is. We are raising a nation of bigots and making it perfectly acceptable for people to discriminate against a whole community because they have no idea what we're about.

Gay issues are not straight issues. Being gay is not a straight issue and never will be.