Author writes:

"There's plenty to cheer.

In addition to providing a voice for gay people"

Stop right there. Since when does a sexual preference have a voice? Do you even understand how foolish you look? To continue with your homosexual political agenda and continually refer to such choice in sexual matters as political platform?

Not gay, homosexual, say it with me please.

"And by persuading mainstream businesses to begin advertising in their paper, the couple has demonstrates the value of reaching out to gay customers."

Reaching out to "homosexual" customers? Since when is it process to reach out to homosexuals?
How about just reaching out to a human being no matter their sexual preference?

Your last article was the same. And most understand that there is a group of individuals trying to push their agenda down everyone's throats in the name of "Homosexual".

What are others supposed to do being you raise your sexual preference up so high for everyone to see it? Do we have to have a political heterosexual revolution now being you cannot stick to the issues and keep your sexual choice out of the matters?

I swear, if it keeps going like it is, the non homosexuals might just have to wake up and base their beliefs on their sexual preference.. Nah, we will let you look like idiots.

--rjs

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The more history I read, the more old people I listen to and the more I observe first-hand- the more I realize how truly few people pry open the doors and hold them for the rest of us. From the first colonials thinking the unthinkable (the American Revolution) to the abolitionists to the trade unionists to the muckrakers to the first progressives to the suffragettes to the civil rights and gay rights movements it starts with a few people willing to stick their necks out and light the way, open the gate or hold a hand in support. Very few.

I lived in Michigan as a child and still have family and friends there. It is a very sad place these days, battered and bruised by the de-industrialization of our economy with a huge populace ill-prepared to deal with the new realities. It is still a state with deep class and racial divides- go to Benton Harbor and cross over to St Joseph. These two cities straddle a river and are worlds apart. It's not just Detroit.

The state was once a hotbed of progressive politics and policies. How it got the other way would probably make a big book and be a microcosm of our nation. The place will never truly thrive until the people figure out that the things they have in common are far more important than the differences between them. Respecting people different than you is the beginning of the renewal. These ladies editing the paper are holding a lantern and it will produce change. One can only hope that it changes sooner rather than later.

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The first poster above seems to long for the day when sexual preference is not an issue. Let's just be human beings, not "homosexual" or "heterosexual". They seem to miss the point. It was these same "heterosexuals" who chose to oppress, reject and help and define as a minority the very "human beings" who now self-identify as "gay". I agree that human sexuality is too complex for such simple categories as "gay" and "straight" or "bisexual". But in seeking to be liberated, those who are corralled into a minority category must use their group power - and thus empower their group identity - in order to fight the oppression. Eventually, when liberation has been realized, the cohesion of this group identity will soften and may even disintegrate. Until then though, it is very necessary to use "gayness" as a means to political action. Instead of attacking those who are trying to be liberated from sexual-political oppression, try understanding why they must do what they're doing. Somewhere in your past, maybe you heard somebody called a "fag" or a "dyke", just as others used racial epithets or socio-economic epithets ("white trash") or epithets against recent immigrants. If you were part of the epithet slinging, then you yourself helped create the need for gayness, for black is beautiful, for "si, se puede". Examine yourself first.

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