HRC Hits Back at Letterman Skit

I wonder now why would leftist organization HRC even care who Letterman offends, they sure didn't when he made that biased degrading remark about Palin's daughter. I know that Letterman is a jerk and of course all you libs love him so much, heck, you don't even believe that he could be "that" mean and offend people.

to JVDOH: Even though I still don't personally identify with transgendered people, your explaination to why gays are grouped together with transgendered people makes a lot of sense and is the best explaination that I have heard. I can accept that.

For all those wondering how "T" got into LGB, it goes back to the beginning of the modern civil rights movement for the queer community. It really all started June 27, 1969 (which incidentally, is why Pride month is June) at the Stonewall Inn in New York. The Stonewall was a gay bar in Grenwich Village, and during a typical Friday night raid, someone decided to fight back. That someone, was Sylvia Rivera: a transwoman. According to lore, she picked up a bottle and threw it at one of the police officers. That act of civil disobedience set off a chain of events. Emboldened, the gay community ralllied and fought back. The rest is stuff of legends. Why is "T" part of LGBT? It's been that way from the beginning. We in the "T" community owe it to the LGB for coming to our aid that night. The LGB owe's it to the "T" for getting things started. Like it or not, we are in this thing together.

I do believe that we also have to be a bit cooler and be able to take a joke. It's not like he made fun of the LGBT community for 20 minutes (exlusively). I am gay. Nevertheless I am shocked by some of the remarks about transgenders. We are in this together. As a gay man I have learned to be more tolerant. Many people also say gays are perverted... So let us also support the weakest link in our community, the transgenders.

For those who are asking, "What do transgenders have to do with gays?" I'll tell you: We're all queers. Accept it. We share a long history of being a persecuted sexual minority, and I see nothing wrong with all of us banding together: gays, lesbians, transgenders, bisexuals, and intersexed.

As a gay man, I also question why I am grouped together with transgendered people. Gay people are sexually attracted to the same sex. Transgendered people feel they are born the wrong sex and get an operation to change that. They then usually are attracted to the opposite sex than they surgically become. How is that anything like me? I respect and support transgendered people and their rights just like my straight friends respect and support me as a gay man. But I don't identify with anything about being transgendered. Yes, we are all fighting for equal rights. But so are people of different races and gender yet gay people are not grouped together with them too.

Bob is being sardonic. He is making a social comment on how some people in the gay community still view transgender people as less than human. Right, Bob?

Bob is being sardonic. He is making a social comment on how some people in the gay people still view transgender people as less than human. Right, Bob?

Wow, I can't believe so many LGBT don't get how cruel that joke was. Amazing. I came out in May and I am trying to wrap my mind around how deep homophobia goes. Even people I love and who really love me are capable of saying things that are cutting without even intending to. It's crazy. And then to come on a GLBT website and see this mean joke and to read comments by gays and lesbians defending it . . wow. All I can say is wow. To those who think it's no big deal . . don't you have compassion? Do you not remember the experience of being mocked and ridiculed for your gender expression or sexual preferences? Don't you have any memories of people making "jokes" that really hurt your feelings and then on top of it all deriding you for being hurt? Humiliation is one of the most effective ways to dominate. Have some compassion . . have some compassion for YOURSELF and the things you have been through as a queer person. And then spread that compassion around.

I don't care what's is between her legs as long as she does her job. Personally I found lettermans joke to be more if a joke about ignorant hetero men than anything else.