13 June 2012

Being Normal


This is a difficult thing to write, but my flamboyantly LGBT friends need to back off.

I love you all. I love your wit, humor, faces, and most of all I love your honesty. It is too bad that right now you are being a little counter-productive.

The battle going on right now in American politics is silly but it needs to happen. Gay people are just like us. They deserve equal protection under the law. They deserve to be married. They deserve to be equal. However this also means they don’t get to be special.

Drag queens don’t get to be angry if they threaten people openly. You are a six foot five man, in eight inch platform shoes and a pink gown you scare normal people. If you live as a woman you don’t get to be a caricature. If you are dressed fashionably and tastefully then rock on, but if you dress like a freak I will call you on it.

The more you look like us, the more you will be considered normal.

No this isn’t applicable in a Cabaret show at midnight, but it matters when you speak to Senators, march on your City Hall, and engage in real dialog.

Show the world how normal you are, so we can show you how much we don’t care. You can be just like us, and we can all live together.

Namaste,
Ross Winn

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