Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

[Ken Burch]

142. I shouldn't have said "and you know it" my major bad there.

I never meant to say that money stops social injustice. Just that it made coming out itself easier in some ways(though of course not all.

I know that even a lot of wealthy and famous people who are gay remain closeted, and what gay men(and lesbians, and the transgendered) are often called. No one should have to face that, or the far worse things you also face.

Sorry for even making it sound as though I thought gays as a group are privileged, or that your struggles against oppression are done. I never believed either of those things.

And I would be a delusional idiot to claim to understand what it is to be LGBTQ. Some days I have trouble understanding what it's like being a 54-year old straight white leftist with thick glasses and a lot of dental work to get done...inn other words, what it's like to be myself.

As to my last remark...I was angry when I wrote it, and lashed out. That was inappropriate. Your posts do tend to read, though, as though you keep wanting people to prove they are on your side, and, since I generally think i am(other than our differences in the I/P group) it's difficult to avoid feeling defensive at times in response to them. Not sure howto deal with that at this point.