You gonna pick shit with me, get it Straight. I NEVER said I was NOT OUT and NOT LOVED, ACCEPTED HERE IN NOLA! I love my city and State but it doesnt change the TRUTH about how the MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HERE ARE LIKE. I said that as NICE as the people try to act in your face, when they get in the Ballot Boxes they VOTE against us! IF that is not true, then you would have marriage equality and protections here.

You must be the Uptown Upper Queer crust, probably “Log Cabin Republican” who Loves “Bobby Jindal” no doubt!

Does your Boston Marriage apply in LA? NO, SO PLEASE!

You can be a lawyer and judge I could give a rat’s ass! You still don’t have a LEGAL MARRIAGE IN LOUISIANA! PERIOD!

And the PISS ANT DP (Domestic Partnership, only for Orleans Parish, basically a registry) crap is nothing, if it was, Why did you go to Boston to marry?

you know what, please don’t answer, because truthfully I could care less.

I was born and raised and out and proud in NOLA too, but again, the truth is the truth, so you get a grip Ms Thang!

Things happen all over. Staying secretive about yourself is a personal choice. The more people that do actually “come out” and let people see well adjusted gay people, the better off we’ll all be. Every positive person people say sways the swayable and reinforces those who will never change anyhow. After the next generation dies of old age the world will be completely different. All the stats indicate that it is primarily older people that have the bias more than any other leading factor. Hate to see them go but their ideas will die with them. Oh, it won’t be gone. It will just become less and less with each new generation. Just like everything else.

I live in Houma and have out gay friends who teach in the public school system with no problems and out gay friends in fairly influential positions in the local government and business community who are well respected. I’ve never had anybody make a derogatory comment about me or any of my friends – at least, to my face.

Now, would Houma have been that way thirty years ago? I don’t really know the answer to that. The vast majority of people here are salt of the earth, good folks who are pretty open to having their worldviews changed. I’m just glad to know many of them and help them view gays in a different light than the one portrayed by theocons like James Dobson.

It takes time, my friends. Who would have thought even two years ago that gay marriage would be legalized in five states? We’ll get where we should be – and, while it won’t be soon enough, it’ll happen. The tides have turned.

We have to keep our wits about us, to protect and thrive among the half-wits.

So do it for him…. and all the others!

I’m engaged in a long term online discussion with a bunch of anti-marriage bigots in Vt, MA and ME given the progress there and the local coverage. These people clearly believe they are pro-equality, but think it is ok to deny us equal rights such as marriage equality. They put us in a different category, a group wanting special rights to legitimize our relationships.

One bigot keeps saying all we care about is the money…he is comfortable discriminating against us in tax matters, and tries to box us into a corner around just “love” issues, which he claims are not our motivation. Of course MONEY is part of our motivation for equality, but not thinking us to be 100% human, he can make that description.

Sure, New England has companies (mine included) that offered benefits before marriage equality was won. But they don’t often say sexual orientation in their anti discrimination policies (my company, recently purchased by the Saudi’s, now does..how ironic!).

Point being that while I’m sure it is harder in Louisiana, it is not perfect here. Until all of our neighbors, community leaders and coworkers see no difference in us, we will not be fully equal.

And in the meantime we should be focusing on religion, which teaches people to believe what they do. It is 100% religion that is our enemy in this fight.

This is one of the most backwards, hypicritical, bigoted States in the country. Period. Why is that so bad to know and accept the truth? The first step in solving a problem is the face it, accept it and then work to resolve it.

I believe that I have the right to have a Love/Hate relationship with my home State, town, country. I don’t live behind Rose colored glasses or maybe I have just lived longer and experienced more.

I said in my earlier post and will continue to say it until LA and the south gets equality…

Being Polite to my face and then stabbing me in the back is not getting us Equality. They aren’t that polite in LA anyways, at least not in New Orleans.

Moreover, When you walk out of your home getting called “Faggot white bitch” doesn’t seem like nice people…

“Conservatives” and “Christian Taliban” don’t vote for LGBT Equality!

Obviously, I’m out at work, too. And I’m protected as well by an anti-discrimination policy here. But there’s been zero mention of my blogging here around our office — and while I don’t need a pat on the back, I do wonder if one of our sports writers were to land a blogging spot at, sat, espn.com, we might hear a little about it.