Fight For Your Rights
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Equal Rights
OK, I know I haven't been active with my blogging, but that's about to change today. I plan to get on and write something at least once a week from now on.

Now I will step up on my soapbox.

Today I was going through some news topics and I found on that really caught my attention. I may not be well versed on current event, but I do know about some of the events that have occurred over the past few years and I watch allot of gay topic movies when I can find them.

The story I am referring to is the speech that Judy Shepard (mother of slain 21-year-old son Matthew Wayne Shepard) gave at "Ascent: The Winter Party at Lake Tahoe" on Wednesday March 2, 2005. (Read the story here)

Mrs. Shepard called for the GLBT Community to get together and stand up for our rights and fight against discrimination. "Hate is not a gay thing. It's everywhere. We need to take care of each other."

I am behind her 1000%. If we do not fight to end discrimination, then it will only get worse. There are allot of "family" I have talked to who want to have the rights that the straight community already has, but they aren't registered to vote and don't work with any groups or organizations working towards that goal. They say that they don't want to get involved or that they don't have the time to do anything.

The more we just sit back and wait for things to go our way, the less of a chance we have for it to happen. If you want to have the rights, as Americans, that you are supposed to be entitled to, you need to get off your duff and make some time to get involved. Even if you collect emails about equal rights issues and places on the web to go to add your signature to a document and forward them to everyone in your address books. You need to do something. If you really feel that you deserve to have these rights, then you need to help in the fight to get them.

The way I see it I.M.P.O. is, if you aren't doing anything to change it, you really don't care about it and you don't even need to whine about it. You want it, you fight for it, and we need all the help we can get right now.

Remember the old saying this country seams to use quite often: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall". In the case of our rights it's "Divided We FAIL!"

As a community, do we want to be WINNER's or LOSER's? I know I want our community to be WINNER's how about you?