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Constantly, I am invited to Equality fundraisers and I am sick of getting dirty looks from people when I express that I am not interested. Implying that I am not being an active member of the Gay Community. When the truth is I just disagree with the politics that Equality Virginia promotes. It disturbs me that no other perspective is presented. We are left to rely on political action provided by those who have the money pay for it.

While the title of this post was meant to be incendiary, it was not meant to be careless. Why is Equality Virginia racist? Because being Gay is racist. Now don’t miss understand me. I am not saying that by engaging in homosexual activity that you are committing an act of racism. That would be silly.

The problem centers around visibility. You see organizations like Equality Virginia and the Human Rights Campaign view the issue of the role of homosexuals in society to be one of Civil Rights. The only problem is that being Gay is not anything like being Black. Think about it just for a second. It’s terribly ignorant and disrespectful to equate the two. The Equal Rights Campaign relies on a false sense of affinity. One that was woefully exposed in the Prop 8 debacle. Not to mention the Obama vs. Hilary split during the election.

Take this very crude example: If you take your average prejudiced person to a line up of any group of people and then ask him to point point out which one is the Faggot and which one is the Nigger. He is not going be sure which one is the Faggot, but he’ll be damn sure which one is the Nigger.

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