You don't have to be Gay to support the LGBT Community.

[yewberry]

78. I agree with what you're saying.

First, I have to acknowledge that my sensibilities are shaped by being a child of a lesbian family. I completely submit to the fact that I am perhaps oversensitive to judgment of my family by outsiders. We've always, always been the anomaly, anecdotal.

I agree that I don't hear the term 'breeder' often, and frankly, I don't care if it's used to refer to me. I'm a straight married woman, so I don't find myself in the position of having to defend myself. I'm the norm. However, in the thread in question, some people actually championed using the term 'breeder' in reference to anyone who'd had kids. That was my problem in that discussion. Put simply, I don't think it is acceptable to refer to my brave lesbian moms as breeders.

No, no one is guilty by proxy. Only people who defend further fragmentation and stratification of the LGBTQQI community are guilty of hating. In my opinion, some members of the DU2 LGBT board specifically chose to categorize some members of the queer community as 'breeders'-- sometimes people feel the need to ally themselves with the more powerful players in a given dynamic... and LGBT parents are maybe not the power group.

We are in agreement on this issue, I think. Thanks for your post.