Efforts are underway to create a memorial for victims of anti-gay hate crimes. Victims like Michael Sandy (above) who have died as a result of anti-gay hate crimes will be honored with their pictures, names and stories, on a 100 foot long display of rainbow colored panels. The exhibit, also designed to increase awareness about violent crimes against LGBT people, will travel and be displayed in college campuses, gay pride events and other communities. The project called "Gay American Heroes" is being led by activist like hate crime victim Scott Hall, US. Representative Barney Frank and Amazing Race winner and activist Chip Arndt. The expected completion date of the Gay American Heroes exhibit is December 2007. The foundation's ultimate goal is to establish a permanent memorial to hate crime victims in Washington, D.C. Read more on Towleroad.com.
2 comments:
No such things as a gay american hero.
No wicked and evil deed needs to be memorialized or remembered.
"the captain" was obviously born heterosexual, may have been educated (somewhat, but not at an institution that taught him to question things), and has been brainwashed by Bible beaters. He may be successful (or not), is definitely young (and inexperienced), and indulges himself in one of the specialties of (especially Black, but not exclusively) fundamentalists: hatred. He should research in depth and find out that some of us who were born homosexual risked (and sometimes lost) lives marching in the South to do away with discrimination of Blacks by Whites. We did it because we knew how it felt. Ironically, all that was forgotten by succeeding generations born after American Apartheid, who indulge themselves in wanting to blame Whites for their failures, and too many oh-so-vocal Black "leaders" who use hate to gain power (and lat's face it, money). Homosexuals are relatively easy prey because of a few Bible passages (ironically, almost all pre-Gospel) that were written purposefully to foster procreation in historical situations.
Your foundation, however, seems to be to memorialize martyrs. Believe me, there are plenty of homosexual heroes to go around, too. Including them with the victims of hate crimes would add a positive message to the display.
BTW. Captain, take a few courses in Bible History at an academic institution not affiliated with a church, and ask the American Psychiatric Association and the Psychologists' association how sick and unnatural homosexuality is. If that doesn't get you over what yo mama's church drummed into your head, God help you.
Legalized discrimination of anyone for anything (other than criminal activities) is wrong, and you ESPECIALLY should know that in your heart. Get to know some mature homosexuals and you'll know that we're just people trying to make our way through life, loving the way we were born to, wanting families, not trying to convert anyone (one can't, anyway), and sometimes doing heroic things that save thousands of lives, leave the world a better place than we found it, etc. We deserve to be able to have the right to marry (it would STRENGTHEN the institution, no weaken it), and as a minority, deserve the protections of legal prohimitions of discrimination and hate crime laws. Oh, and don't forget that many homosexuals have died to save their buddies, their sexual identities unknown, and a HUGELY disproportionate number of cultural heroes are homosexual, both closeted and "out."
Don't confuse us with guys on the "down-low" looking for a thrill. We're acculturated largely to, like heteros, have our period of sowing our wild oats, then settle down with one partner and have PLATONIC friends, etc., and we deserve equal rights every bit as much as everyone else does.
Cohesive, smoothly-functioning societies are made up of secure, empowered people. Hatred, bitterness, and resentment (as you might suspect) have no place in such a society.
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