Stonewall Riots - Texas Raids

Photo: Patrick Michels

Is it a bit of irony that cops in Fort Worth raided a gay bar the night before the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the night before the Million Gay March of Texas? Straight guys, like these cops, always try to substantiate beating on gay guys by saying they were hit on: "Police said two intoxicated individuals made sexually explicit moves toward officers and a third grabbed a TABC agent’s groin" (The Houston Chronicle). One arrestee was left with a brain injury.

It is just absolutely sickening how little progress this country as a whole has made towards recognizing gay rights... I am waiting for the day when "rights" are no longer differentiated by the group, as we are all human. Human rights should be applicable to, well, HUMANS. (Shouldn't that be "humen"?) There ARE rights afforded to humans, but the actual rights afforded to the individual depends on if you are gay, straight, white, black, male, female, transexual, transvestite, yellow, brown, polygamist... How can that actually be okay?

This world is just so wrong. I hate it.