Music Plays when Gays are Murdered
Sometimes, comments aren’t “stupid” in the realm of homophobia, but outright hateful and unfathomable. What reaction should a gay man have to comments such as this one?
oh and by the way another couple of gays killed in my neighbourhood [sic] for being gay, that is music to my ears. from a proud homophobic. —k.ltwills.r495@googlemail.com
Outrage? Fear? Anxiety? Hate?
Oddly, I read that comment and had this momentary inner peace. My insides went silent. I closed my eyes, laid my head back against my shoulders and breathed deeply. I realized that because of the hate that I have dealt with in my life and because of the hate that those I know have dealt with, that I am ready to do anything it takes to stop that hate. But how do you stop a freight train with tax shelters [the church] funding their every move? Do we sit back and become martyrs or do we “bash back“? Well, by posting the email address to my blog, I’m excited to know that numerous spam bot engines will sweep it up and start sending all those wonderful “enlarge your manhood” emails to k.ltwills.r495@googlemail.com. That is my bashing back for the time being as I continue my internal debate about the philosophy of bashing back.
Statistically speaking, hate crimes dropped last year to 7,726 hate crimes overall; however, hatecrimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender persons increased by 5 1/2 %. Due to the current political environment, that number is expected to rise markedly this year.
But what about hate crimes committed by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons against other classes of persons? Bash Back is a group of persons devoted to the theory of “gays bash back”. They have received a lot of criticism from all categories, including other gays and lesbians. Most of their antics/protests have been demonstrative rather than truly violent. I consider the group to be radical members of the gay community, a Malcolm X type of initiative. For decades the gay community has had it’s share of “Martin Luther King, Jr.’s”, perhaps it is time for us to become “Malcolm X”. But then we would be committing the very crimes we worked so hard to enter into the legislature. We would be committing “hate crimes” and although the result may be that we achieve the ultimate goal of civil equality, we risk loosing our own dignity.
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Please don't use terms like martyrs and names like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X when it comes to gays, you are defaming and taking away dignity and respect from these words and names.
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