Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

First Off

This article is meant to be informative. I want to say before I even begin that, I Do Not agree with the treatment or view points towards the LGBTQ in the Midwest or anywhere that is discriminative or hurtful to them. I support the LGB and it's members.

I am writing this because I want people to understand how differently they are treated in the Bible Belt and throughout the Midwest in general, as compared to other places in America.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

By observations I've seen on GAG, I think people naïvely think, on the coasts or in larger cities, that views and acceptance on homosexuality are the same throughout the United States of America. I'm sorry to have to tell you guys but they are not. In fact in some places the treatment is horrible and even deadly.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

It's Dangerous and Can be Illegal

Travel advisories for LGBTQ members have been issued in five different states in the Midwest and South for years and years now. In three different states all in the Bible Belt not only is crossdressing frowned upon, it's actually illegal in some counties.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Individuals will be charged if caught crossdressing in public with attempting to impersonate a woman which is charged as a sex crime. Drag shows are illegal and gay bars just don't exist period.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Violence Toward Transexuals

Most homosexuals in rural areas of the Midwest can not even be openly gay becaues of the danger it imposes to their safety. Over 40 transexuals have been beat to death or killed already in the Midwest in the year 2020 alone. These crimes just do not make the headlines or national news, so most people are unaware of this huge problem still occuring.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Race or Age Is Not a Factor

Ages of these individuals who were killed ranged from 16-52 years old and were mostly men impersonating women. Race or age did not seem to make a difference in these horrible murderous crimes against transexuals in the Bible Belt.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

MONA

2020 was the 22nd consecutive year that Democrats in the Missouri legislature have fought for the passage of the Missouri Non-Discrimination Act, or MONA, which would ban discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community. It was the 22nd consecutive year that the Conservative majority rejected the bill without even allowing a vote.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Did You Know?

In Missouri and Arkansas entering 2021 you can still be denied services, an apartment, or not hired for a job for who you are or who you choose to love without any legal recourse? It's true and it happens everyday.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

It's not okay that some people in the Midwest do not except and embrace the LGBTQ and the many wonderful members of its community.

Hopefully, in the future people will stop this crazy, violent, behavior and realize that their views towards homosexuality is horrible, unfair and just wrong.

I hope the Bible Belt will change it's views and understanding towards the LGBTQ community in the future.

Acceptance Is Not Everywhere

Conclusion

Until that time comes please be aware not everyone is on the same page as you reguarding the rights and acceptance of The LGBTQ. It can be dangerous and unsafe for them in some places in America, sadly even today.

Thanks for reading everyone 💖....

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  • Great take but some of these opinions below just make me pray for a comet crashing into earth, I'm a straight guy so I'm not coming from an angle and work on the basis that if I don't understand/can't relate to a situation I treat it with compassion first rather than condemning. People who are using religion to back up there argument need a serious slap, if religion is justifying you hating people/being a bigot then you've either picked the wrong religion or misinterpreted it.

    • This right here is why, we are cyber friends!!!

    • @Mehzmeh ahhhh

    • Thanks mate!

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  • I believe everyone is important and their voice is valuable

    • Thank you for the mho 😊

    • Course my friend

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  • Not just regarding the Gay BLT crowd, but also applies to many minority groups, including mental disorders and other deviations from the norm.

    The way humans are genetically coded and socialized by their cultures often combines to make a recipe for intolerance of others that fall outside a given spectrum of the average.

    By genetic coding, I mean we are at our core, a social species both outside our taxonomic family such as dolphins or wolves, and many of the other primates within our taxonomic Family. Social species decide within their communities what behaviors are acceptable, and which will cause varying degrees of discouragement, ranging from mild disapproval to murder of the offending individual. Humans are no exception to these patterns of behavior, as evidenced by some of the examples above.

    Humans are an exception in some regards, such as our ability to record information and disseminate it throughout the broader planetary community. Many human individuals also have some top notch processing and recall abilities.

    By culture socialization, I mean that humans learn from the culture that influences them wherever they are born. E. g. those born in Thailand predominately learn to speak Thai, are likely Buddhist, and follow Thai mores. Those born in the Midwest region of the USA predominately learn to speak English, likely hold Judeo-Christian beliefs, and follow Midwest mores. All around the world you see this. It is a rare occurrence for a person born in India, who just randomly goes against everything in their surrounding culture and adopts Christianity, or vice versa with a Midwesterner (USA) adopting Hinduism.

    I was born in California, and moved to northern Idaho when I was 10 years old. I moved back to California at 16, and since then have traveled extensively around the world and the many states of the USA. I was homophobic, racist, and generally intolerant of most humans outside my limited experience when I was 16, after my subtle indoctrination of the culture of a small community in north Idaho. After years of exposure to other cultures and a wide variety of people of many nations and practices, I have shed most of these ignorant hatreds.

    I hypothesize that the old adage is true about ignorance and racism, and ignorance and hatred in general. The more information I gather about individuals of any demographic, the more compassion and empathy I have, and the less I am able to feel any animosity toward them.

  • GaG isn't a very acceptable place for LGBT either, I've discovered.

  • Nice Take, it’s crazy how people are perceived and treated in some parts of this country. Shit, even in my area, they painted a rainbow crosswalk on the main drag, and some idiot showed up within the first week from a few towns away in a pickup truck and was burning out his tires on it to deface it. A lot of uneducated and unfortunate attitudes out there.

  • People don't have to be a certain way or even totally accept a certain ideology, belief, way of life... But should always be respectful of others and their right/freedom to be what/who they are... choose the lifestyle that best suits them... And for all the "haters" that use Christianity as their excuse..."Judge not lest ye yourself be judged" ... And no man should sit in judgement on any other man, that is for God and only God...

    • Judge not lest you be judged. Means don’t be a hypocrite. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit, you’ll know them by their fruit.

  • It's scary some people spend their lives spreading hate

    • Yes this what I’m fighting against

    • @ct1243 it’s not hate, it’s jus reasonable, Would u love someone who is a pedophile? No? Well to the majority of most people, homosexuality is just as disgusting, creepy, and immoral as pedophila is, so why not spend 2 seconds out of your day to show that u don’t accept it? It’s not exactly hating, we jus don’t wanna stand for and accept something so immoral and sick as homosexuals

    • I don’t judge what people do how is homosexuality hurting anyone it isn’t. I’m gay and I don’t care what anyone says. My life has no bearings on anyone

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  • That is incorrect. It is true that their are judgmental people, but then you will never escape that (your doing it now with the midwest (which largely is indifferent to homosexuality as most people are)), but that is a far cry different then it being dangerous.

    We have not had any real violence towards homosexuals in any significant degree (despite popular beliefs. Most news tries to spin it that way because it gets headlines (like the orlando shooter who's expressed purpose for shooting up a club (which by all accounts he had no idea was a gay club) was to hurt america like america had hurt the middle east i. e. it had nothing to do with homosexuality. Or the Mathew Shepard incident which was thrown out as a gay killing when in fact, by the admission of the killers themselves, it was a robbery and attempt to acquire drugs (and by some accounts one of the killers was even bisexual)).

    Your also wrong in your idea that the coasts are some how more benevolent then the midwest, that is incorrect. They are no more inclined towards discrimination then some one from new york is.

    You can make a case for their being a higher rate of discrimination amongst religious however even their its not as much as is being presented. Buying a billboard is not that expensive, in rural areas it could be a total of 250 dollars. So that is not some kind of widespread conspiracy against gays in these areas, its just small groups that happen to be very vocal about their beliefs (like the westboro baptist church that has a whopping 70 members (yet have plenty of headlines about them and protests they have made). The founder of which by the way, at least according to his daughter before he died, disavowed his own views on gays (his intent was to try and "save" them and he became consumed by his rhetorica and became more hateful but in his last days he recanted everything and stated that he was wrong.).

    As for acceptence not being everywhere, well that is true but also meaningless as it will never be everywhere. You personally discriminate, every one does to some degree or another and that is the beauty of freedom we all get to have an opinion even if its a shitty one, so long as it stays just an opinion then it doesn't matter.

    Also the last pic is wrong, you cannot be fired for being gay (you can be fired for everything else, but not for being gay), that would violate antidiscrimination laws.

    • I live in Missouri buy okay whatever you say sure

    • And I lived in springfield IL, have relatives in Missouri, and Minnesota, and currently live near Chicago. Like I said, most people don't give a damn, others may have an opinion you don't like but are not going to do harm to anyone (statistics bare that out) and at worse will just be an asshole. Again, this is based upon statistical data showing an abscense of crime against gays as well as the most prominent anti lgbt hate group being only 70 members strong (the Black Israelites are another story but they despise every one and everything that isn't black so I don't really count them).

    • sure.

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  • male and female created he him ( God ) male and female created he them ( God ) ! you are either a male born with a penis or a female born with a vagina ! if the male wants to become a female , then he can cut off his penis and bleed to death ! she can cut off her vagina but how? thanks

  • Acceptance is not everywhere, but at the same time you can't force people to accept lgbtq or any other issue for that matter. A law might shut people up in public but not their hatred in private, and it will just push hatred to another extent. You using law forcing acceptance of lgbtq on these people is no difference on them forcing the bible lifestyle on you and lgbtq people.
    I'm just saying the legal approach won't bring cooperation, it can accidentally bring more hatred towards each other on both sides.

  • Forcing acceptance is an intellectual dictatorship. Everyone is entitled to support whatever they wish

    • op isn't forcing acceptance. she's saying don't commit hate crimes

    • What do you mean by a hate crime?

    • @nevernevernever thank you for understanding my point miss. You are right acceptancee isn't the message it's nobody should be hurt or punished for their lifestyle or beliefs

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  • I agree with most of those signs. Most of them. Most of them, are lovingly pointing out that you are not hopeless to be trapped in your fixations. Which is a message everyone needs to hear; because nearly everyone today has an unhealthy sexual fixation. Even I have struggled with a few, as my OCD is a monster.

    There is nothing "hateful" about inspiring hope - except in the eyes of those who want to groom children for a gay deathstyle, and wish to consolidate power. Messages of hope, take away power from these activists. Thus, they want to destroy hope, by calling it "hate," and hoping no one is smart enough to see through them.

    While I don't condone vigilante violence against the gender-confused nor the gender-bender deviant, there is a simple reason they are common targets: they immediately go into prostitution, and feel compelled to lie to their potential clients.

    Anyone with any iota of common sense realizes that you don't go trying to sell a product - especially not your body - to a potential client, outright lie to the client, and expect anything good to come of it! Smart con artists always find a way to slip away, so they CAN'T get beaten to a pulp for false advertising!

    The gender-bender-deviant, however, make a point of putting themselves in extremely dangerous situations, trying to sell a lie to their clients, and arrogantly assuming they shouldn't need an easy escape route! Then, when the predictable happens, and the client is less than amused with being ripped off, they WONDER why the client gets violent!

    Bear in mind: in the field of prostitution, even a hooker who fails to deliver as good of sex to the client as promised, can find herself beaten to death by the John she gives service to! That's why prostitution is an inherently dangerous line of work, and one of many reasons it's still illegal in many places!

    So when you go into THAT field, KNOWING how dangerous it is, and LYING TO CLIENTS, and expect anything other than getting beaten to death? Is it exclusively the fault of the client who got ripped off; or is it ALSO the fault of the dishonest service provider, who not only lied, but exercised ZERO common sense?

    Again, those johns who kill because they got misled are not excused. They deserve the electric chair. But to act like the solution is to blackmail the masses into accepting pure evil perversion as normal, acceptable, and good, if not sacrosanct, as the "solution"? Batshit INSANITY!

    Is it too much to accept that "Do not murder" and "Do not be sexually impure" are right next to each other in the Ten Commandments FOR A REASON? As in, ONE NEVER EXCUSES THE OTHER, and vice-versa?

    • "Do not be sexually impure" is not one of the Ten Commandments. I agreed with your first three paragraphs, but you really went off the rails after that.

  • I can and have thoroughly debunked all conservative views about LGBT people. They will not engage with me though because they know I am not a stupid liberal and I know my shit. Instead they ignore me because they fear having their minds changed.

    All the hate and anti lgbt stuff is a symptom of scientific ignorance. Just as is racism. When the proper scientific perspective is ingested, ones hate is forced to disappear. Which is why they avoid it. Because they want to hate.

    Want to have a debate with me? I know you don't but I challenge anyone to bring it on. I'm not a liberal. I am actually capable of changing your mind.

    • Stop to force someone to do something they clearly don’t want to do loser

    • What? lol. I think you're confused.

    • You people are nuts esp you people trying to change lesbians get a life and mind your own business

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  • So awful. I heard about that one lgbtq guy that got attacked by two maga hat wearing trump supporters. Disgusting.

  • Yeah it’s not everywhere due to annoying christians who push their beliefs onto everyone. Sorry to say but not everyone is Christian and not everyone thinks it’s a sin, and regardless if it was a “sin” it doesn’t affect you? No one is dying from being gay so I suggest anyone who is an annoying homophobic pain in the ass keep your opinions to yourselves.

    • Facts! 💯

  • If you do not want to think freely do not read this.

    The real question is: should we accept it as normal? If yes why? If not why not?

    And if we shouldn't accept it as normal what should we do about it?

    Answer: lgbt must not be considered normal because it goes against human nature.
    No human is born homosexual, it is an acquired disorder.

    In the eyes of science that is.

    2 years ago scientists discovered that there is no genetic link to homosexuality.

    This basically proves that it's acquired.

    Also the fact that it is much more common societies which have media that normalizes it further support that proof.

    Most of these people have issues which caused trauma that opened them to the world of lgbt.

    A single parent raised them or a father raped them or they were bullied badly or they were influenced by friends, cartoons, the media.

    These are the things that produce lgbt not genes.

    Natural selection makes sure any possibility of a "gay gene's" presence an impossibility.

    Tolerance and acceptance aren't the same as normalization.

    We have to be tolerant and accepting towards lgbt people and we must try to help them.

    These are human beings just like us and must not be harmed or forced to be something they don't wanna be.

    At the same time lgbt must not be normalized just like any other mental problem.

    Anything that harms an organism's chances of reproduction is bad for them, that is basic biology.

    Not to mention the implications of normalization of such things.

    In fact now after they've normalized lgbt, they are normalizing incest and pedophilia, bestiality and cannibalism.

    What the fuck is left of our human morality?

    These aren't coincidences. There are people who aim to morph society into their twisted image in preparation for the arrival of their supposed savior and leader. The false messiah/ dajjal.

    Whether or not he'll come is up to you to believe but they believe in him and are preparing for his supposed arrival.

    Depopulation, the annihilation of morality, destruction of family values, twisting the religions to serve as a brainwashing instrument instead of their intended purposes.

    These are some of their goals. Oh and if you think this is some sort of conspiracy theory think again, this is common belief among these secret societies. Just grab a masonic book and you'll find everything I told you.


    Or better yet, listen to Bill gates saying he wants to depopulate 95% of the world (thats a quote by the way)

    Or go to Georgia and read in several languages the 100 ton stone tablets built by "unknown people" saying their 10 commandments which begin with "maintaining humanity at 500 million people".


    See i went deep in this comment but if I hadn't done that you wouldn't get the full picture.

    To understand people you have to understand their motivations and the motivations of those who control their social environment.

    • Yet another scientific illiterate.

    • @msc545 lmao

    • Dude don't was your time I read four sentances tops

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  • I have never seen any billboards like the ones you posted.. had anyone? In real life?

    Hatred and discrimination will always exist no matter what. Either because you’re too fat, too skinny, too pale, too dark, too short, too ugly, too gay, too perfect 👌!

    There is no real stop to this, hate should not be encouraged in any form, but there will always be a stupid reason why someone doesn’t like you, your hair is too curly, your boobs are too big, etc.

    Why do people want everyone to love them? Be happy with the ones closest to you loving you.

    People placing these billboards are awful, but it’s not really so common because I’ve never personally seen any at all and I live in a very big city, I’ve also traveled to many countries and have yet to see any of this. It shouldn’t happen regardless but also you shouldn’t seek to find approval and acceptance from the entire world, just be happy to have those near you who love you.

    I demand everyone to love me!!! Because my hair is curly and I’m short and fat. Um no. Love yourself and be happy to have those near you regardless of who or what you are, how you look and what you like.

    • You don't live in the Midwest

    • Well I hope it’s not so awful there but then again why do you want everyone to love and or accept you? Why not be happy with your close family and friends who do? In the end they are the ones who matter the most! If they are also part of the group then I feel for you. Maybe move. 😐 I don't know

    • I'm good lol I'm very straight

  • The transexuals that was beaten to death has tricked men into doing sexual stuff with them?

    • Some

    • There are people who hate trans and lesbians they do it for hate crime

    • @berethor person is right they do it cause they see them as a danger to their families like getting rid of a future sex offender, in their head anyway

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  • The lord who created the universe and earth and light and life by the wave of the magic wand just somehow was not powerful enough to prevent homosexuality and stuff, but even though he can just create a universe he still worried about who sticks their dick where. Hmm...

    But if you leave the good old us for some silly reason, like maybe you want to sit on a plane 2x11 hours to see eifel tower... just stay away from countries that hate LGBTQ people ok? Easy huh?

    If you live in some religious nuthouse... move

    Life is so easy...

  • Homosexuality is degenerate, i don't support it.

  • You can try to be an activist for this issue all you want- you'll find these groups treated FAR worse beyond the US borders, and you'll also find that virtually nobody really wants to hear about other people's sexual exploits regardless of who or what's involved. Private lives should remain private.

    Also, the trans subject shouldn't be in the same ballpark as homosexuality- this is a much more complicated and largely psychological subject that is doing a disservice to both by trying to tie them together.

    • The Trans folk have been grouped in because we have chosen to include them in the community so when talking about the lgbtq+ community and gays we are also talking about trans people too

  • It's very unfortunate. I have many LGBTQ friends and clients and they are no different then anyone else. Good people.

    If people don't agree that is one thing but resorting to violence is pure hate.

    • Sad.

    • I agree ! 100 💯 I don’t support hate

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