Blaine’s existence on the choir room is crucial.
Someone besides Kurt needs to be offended by the homophobic shit everyone says about Kurt.
Fuck “It Gets Better.” Show us a campaign against gay teen bullying called “THIS SHIT HAS TO STOP RIGHT NOW” and we’ll sign on in nano-seconds. Because the people who need to address anti-gay bullying definitely aren’t the victims – and not the bullies, either. It’s society that needs to change its attitudes toward gays, from the top down. And when the majority of people are righteously angered by any attempts to dehumanize gays or treat them as inferior – and more importantly, moved to act on that anger, rather than sitting at their computers and shaking their heads over it – then anti-gay bullying will practically evaporate. Every time a gay kid takes his life, it’s not he who’s at fault, nor is it the parents, the bullies, the church or the school district. WE ARE. WE ALL ARE. You should be furious about it, not gently weeping over music videos.
Since today is apparently the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (is it new this year or am I just really out of touch?), it seemed appropriate to share this little speech from the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
70 male, heterosexual students were given different versions of a story about a day in the life of another undergraduate. In one, he was revealed to be gay early on; in another, he was outed late in the story; in the third, he was heterosexual. The results? ‘Those who read the gay-late narrative reported significantly more favourable attitudes toward homosexuals after reading the story than did readers of both the gay-early narrative and the heterosexual narrative. Those who read the gay-late narrative also relied less on stereotypes of homosexuals – they rated the gay character as less feminine and less emotional than did the readers of the gay-early story.’
Geoff Kaufman, who led the study, said: ‘If people identified with the character before they knew he was gay, if they went through experience-taking, they had more positive views – the readers accepted that this character was like them’. Perhaps we could hand out some ‘gay-late narratives’ to inhabitants of North Carolina.
Alison Flood, in her Guardian article, “Can a fictional character take you over?”
The Strange Case of Sophie Herold
To momentarily ignore the basic fact that outing people is wrong, hurtful, etc etc…I must say I am amazed by how much time this woman apparently must have on her hands. I mean, scouting the internet, saying shit about gay people and accumulating information in order to out them sounds like quite a time-consuming undertaking.
