I have nothing against liberals, but tell me why ...

[foreigncorrespondent]

...they have to claim to be gay friendly, all the while they truly aren't?

Yes this thread is because of all the damned anti gay threads around here lately. More in particular this one. While the thread is locked (something I appreciate), perhaps it would have been nicer for the thread to be removed completely, so the queer community at DU didn't have to stumble across the hatred remarks.

That is the problem with the world. All the anti gay shit we see is nothing more than government sanctioned discrimination on a major level. I say that because, all the anti gay shit is allowed to remain. We see it all over the Interent including here at DU, in newspapers, on the television, on the radio, in magazines, on billboards, in churches, from the Vatican, from the Oval office. How do you think it makes a queer feel, to have to see it time and time again?

I used to look forward to coming to DU first thing in the morning and catching up on all the latest news and stuff. I don't look forward to it anymore. In fact I usually read a lot of other things before I even think about venturing over here. And DU has no one to blame about the bad repuation it is getting with in the queer community but itself.

I used to tell any queer person looking for a comfortable accepting political forum to come visit DU. I don't do that anymore. I can't do that anymore. I would feel so bad if I sent a queer friend here and all they got was homophobic abuse for their troubles.

I used to link to DU from my blog, but given my blog will attract people from with in the queer political community, I thought it best to remove the DU link. Again I didn't want to send people this way, to have them see the anti gay shit I have had to see on a regular basis here.

While not everyone here at DU is homophobic, the vast majority is, just most don't wish to admit it. The do however show it in other ways, without ever realizing they have done it.

I am so disapointed in the anti gay feel here at DU that I have been talking with my partner about begining a political forum for queers only, because we do need a safe haven, away from the prying eyes of haters. Somewhere where we can feel comfortable enough to be ourselves, without the fear of getting slammed, bashed, and dragged through Bush*s pile of crap from people who we thought to be our friends.

Any person who votes for the Democratic party and any person who runs on a Democratic ticket and yet can feel so much hatred for the queer community, or feel as if the queer community should just vanish into thin air, are nothing more than a bunch of hypocrites hiding under the safe veil of Democrats.

The people who like to slam the queer community around here, or any person who knows with in themselves that they are infact homophobic yet have managed to hide it, well begin to think about it. You are more Republican than the Republican party. Your core values are all wrong, and believe it or not, the greenies who are amongst us, belong here moreso than you.

Thanks for the chance to rant. If it gets me tombstoned, I don't care anymore. I am sick to death of having to come here and defend my community to the upmost, when people refuse to listen. Refuse to hear the queer communities cries of pain. All I can say to every single homophobic person around here is GROW UP!!!! You give yourself a bad name, and further giving DU a bad reputation of being a rather homphobic forum.