The Equality Act of 2015...What do you think?

The Equality Act of 2015 is a bill in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate that if passed would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, credit, and the jury system.

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Do you think this has a chance or will it go the way of the ERA back in the day and wither and die on the vine?

Do you agree with the idea of it?-is there anything that is missing?

Do you think this will be the 'next big thing' that the Gay Elite push for (gays are in the military, we have gay marriage, what now?)

Will gays get too introspective and caught up in microscopic diversions like adding 135 new gender definitions and splinter apart and disperse any source of collective force or power?

Is this necessary to counter the increasing number of 'Religious Freedom' bills that states are passing which are often (IMO) just shields for anti-gay discrimination?

Should this be a new focus, or would gays(and lesbians, and trans, and queers, .....Ad infinitum ) be better off focusing on something else?
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I think that this is something to fight for. We have all kind of gone our own ways a bit(which is good) as smaller groups push for recognition (like this site even), but I think we need something to unite us in a greater battle. This battle would benefit us all and could be something that every one of us could get behind, and maybe it could help bring us together a bit to work on some of the other issues in our LGBT(..etc.)world together(racism, classism, etc.). Too optimistic?

How often have you even heard anyone talk about this? Not much on my end.

 

I kind of wanted to post it because this is a black site, and I wanted to see in a way how black gay men sort of deal with the duel issues of being gay and being black, and just how much time and effort goes into dealing with, or can go into dealing with, both, and in what degree. I don't have that duality. I would expect that fighting racism would come first.

And you kind of got into that-you have a life, work, etc. so how much can you put into something like this vs putting effort into fighting the things that have more of an effect on blacks in general. Thanks for the response-it kind of gets right at what I was thinking.

I honestly haven't been that up on it myself. There is classism, racism, the political situation. That post about the denial of the haircut got me thinking about it and how it might be the next 'big issue' because of these 'Religious Freedom' bills....but I can only ask about how this will play out among gay black men you know, when you are being discriminated against daily and face getting shot and stopped by the police, plus dealing with black homophobia(which again I am ignorant of). I just was curious about thoughts on this issue.

My view on it is of course biased because I don't have the double discrimination. I did not want to explicitly state anything about race, but it is there, and it would be an amendment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

And I am commenting on this now because you may be the only responder as this thread seems to be a flop lol. Saturday nights are not the best time to post new threads.

 

I called and tried to volunteer for our local Stonewall Union and was treated rudely as hell, and then told I would get a call back-which I did not. I had called them before to ask about STI testing and was treated rudely as well. I don't know what the problem is with these organizations. Sometimes they act snobbier than a country club is seems. smh.

What is the 'voyeuristic stuff'? how many and who..what??? lol???

 

Well damn..sometimes I look at posts without commenting..lol..I don't want people thinking I am a troll. Sometimes I just don't have anything to say, or am not sure what I think so I don't comment. I check out all kinds of new threads without commenting-sometimes the thread turns out to not be up your alley, so to speak. Oh well.