Just a little bit ago I was going through the favorites I had saved on my YouTube channel and came across this one. It’s one of my favorites by Sean Chapin. Take a couple of minutes to watch it. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Every time I watch this video I tear up though today I teared up for a different reason. I started to reflect back to this time last year when there was so much passion within the LGBT community and there REALLY was a sense of community. As horrible as Prop 8 was, it brought us together. We had a common cause we were fighting for. We were pissed & we were letting people know about it! There were marches, there were rallys, and people were in the streets.
Fast forward not even a year. It seems as though the community has once again disbanded. Sure, we have this group doing their thing, and that group doing something else, and then we have the groups that no longer exist. For the most part we have lost the fire that was ignited by Prop 8. Again, we have grown complacent, comfortable, busy and retreated back in to our gay ghettos, our bars, our clubs and our own little cliques.
What is going to have to be taken from us next before we come together again? And how long until we slip back in to the same complacency that we’re currently in? Why aren’t there more groups like GetEQUAL and Queer Rising causing a rukus? What would happen if the government started targeting the gay bars and shutting them down? I bet that would get some pissed off queers in to the streets. Just sayin’.
Anyway, this post is probably all over the place because that is where my head is right now. I just had to get this out in some form.
I hope someone will read this and decide that they need to be involved in some way instead of just trying to go about their daily lives.
