JMG Quote Of The Day - Carl Siciliano
"I feel like the LGBT movement has been asleep at the wheel when it
comes to this. We've been so focused on laws – changing the laws around
marriage equality, changing 'don't ask, don't tell,' getting adoption
rights – that we haven't been fighting for economic resources. How many
tax dollars do gay people contribute? What percentage of tax dollars
comes back to our gay kids? We haven't matured enough as a movement yet
that we're looking at the economics of things. There is a psychological
reality that when you're an oppressed group whose very existence is
under attack, you need to create this narrative about how great it is to
be what you are. It's like, 'Leave the repression and the fear behind
and be embraced by this accepting community, and suddenly everyone is
beautiful and has good bodies and great sex and beautiful furniture, and
rah-rah-rah.' And, from day one of the Stonewall Riots, homeless kids
were not what people wanted to see. No one wanted to see young people
coming out and being cast into destitution. It didn't fit the
narrative." - Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano, in a Rolling Stone article on the epidemic of homeless LGBT youth.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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