It is amazing to me the amount of opposition members of the GLBT community face even after the supreme Court has ruled that we are allowed equal rights in our sexuality. Being unable to marry though, I have to say is just the tip of the ice burg here. Now we can get married but we still have a harder time finding jobs. We can get married but we still fear holding hands in public. We can get married....but we are still far from equal. Members of the community are often faced with things like discrimination for employment. A bitch wan is going to be far less likely to get an office job than the young girl in a skirt, regardless that the butch lesbian is far more qualified for the position . Bi-sexual people are osticized by most of the community unless they are currently in a same-sex relationship. We even discriminate against ourselfs!

Love it! Texas judge ruled the Texas ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional! Hahahaha! Lifting the ban is still being delayed though, that's the shitty part about it. I would like to see it be struck down and a ban lighten immediately upon decision of the court. How long is going to take for Oklahoma to stop fighting it and make it legal also? Instead of being the last state to approve of things the rest of the country has long embraced, Oklahoma stagnates because of the narrow minded bigoted hypocrites this state is governed by (I mean you Mary Fallon).

U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern stuck down Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage yesterday. Mary Fallon is probably mad as hell. Now, just give me the ability to get a job where I am not discriminated against because its against some backwoods businesses owner's relinion and I'll be happier than a rainbow-eating unicorn!

I'm often told that I can't find a job because I'm doing something wrong. I present the question to them each time. I ask the same question and no one, no even former employers, can answer it without finally drawing the inevitable conclusions. Am I qualified for the jobs that I apply for? Check! Do I have good references? Check! Do I have a positive can-do attitude? Check! So, when I find these questions answered, I ask what am I doing wrong? They have no responds, sometimes a shoulder shrug and a quick change of subject. Let me explain. I do not walk into a room and introduce myself as "Hi, I'm Amanda, I'm a Lesbians." But I may as well do just that. It just sort of doesn't have to be said. Even at my girliest, the first real conversations are always - are you a lesbian..? And I always answer honestly. Yes, I am. This is always the problem I have found. Even if I were to try - and trust me, try I have - I can't hide who I am. In small towns full of people who read the Bible and interpret it as real life with no other alternative, its hard to find genuine acceptance. This brings me to my point. Someone asked me, well, why don't you just move somewhere that's friendlier to gays. Well, fuck that. No. I will not move to be accepted but I will move that acceptance be created where I am. I do not disagree with people having faith, having religion, having opinions. I do tho have a problem when that faith, that religion, and those opinions prevent me from having basic human rights that even criminals are insured, I have a proem. And if I move, the bigoted ass monkeys who think that bullying someone into changing or running the person out of town are ok ways to treat any human beings, its letting them win. Its been said that one can not change a situation from the outside, one must be on the inside to make a difference. Acceptance and equality among EVERYone is all the change that I want to encite.

The only way the state of Oklahoma is ever going to become a progressive forward thinking state is if they get a forward thinking politician (if one of those exists) in office. I don't care if its a democrat or republican, we need to get that hag Mary Fallon out of office. She has tried rewriting birth-control laws, tax laws, same sex rights laws, as well as writing her own laws that make our prison systems more profitable to keep inmates incarcerated. this bitch gotta go!

You know, if I can't find employment because of the fact that I "look" like a lesbian, (but if you'd just put on some makeup you wouldn't look like a boy) then fuck em, I don't need their job oppertunities, I will just find a way to create my own job oppertunities.

Call me crazy but its amazing that even open minded people openly insult lesbians and gays on a daily basis and it seems to just be acceptable. Not spossed to get into an argument over such things and turn mountains into mole hills. But if we don't get pissed off and tell people their words are often harsh or double edged, even if unintentionally so. GLBT community faces hard enough obstacles, living in rural towns full of narrow minded people makes it very hard to live a normal life. Shoving us into forcing us to change to suit their own definitions of normal is so wrong that it is sort of rediculouse.