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If you are an Arizona resident:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-daniel-snyder/no-loo-for-...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/arizona-bathro...
Write your state legislative critters or you may be forced to hold it in.
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Maybe not
But in the last 20 years a Significant part of the US has become so reactionary and, yes, selfish imho, that yes it meets the standard of being medieval so it is understandable that a non-US person can feel that way.
That said, comparing US to Europe is disturbing as we would think the US is a bit more unified in culture and language than that. I would say the US is more comparable to China as an example with its diverse cultural regions.
Kim
That's just the optics of the
That's just the optics of the news media. Just like it might seem from the news the US sees about Europe that all the governments over there are on the verge of collapse and everyone is rioting in the streets about austerity measures. Things are a lot better off then they were 20 years ago, and most people don't think or act like the extremists you see on TV. The advent of cable news has had a effect on all news in this country tending to polarize and exacerbate topics and issues in ways that wouldn't have happened 20 years ago.
While the US does mostly have one unifying language it's culture is still more diverse than you might think, and it's politics are even more variable than that.
Yes, if Arizona passes such a
bill, how long will it be until other states follow suit, much less a federal bell?
May Your Light Forever Shine
The History of the LBG(T) Movement
is distorted by the first commentator, especially. Although there had been sporadic demonstrations and confrontation before the more famous "Stonewall Inn" riots in 1969, the most serious confrontation of the modern era came with the hardly-remembered Compton's Cafeteria riot in San Francisco (1966), although it too was preceded by the Cooper's Donuts riot in Los Angeles (1959). Both of these confrontations were led by and centred around what would now be termed transgendered individuals, although at the time they were dismissed as the "Drag Queen" subset of gay men.
Neither of the first two riots garnered all that much attention outside their local communities, because the newspapers of the era prided themselves on being "family-oriented," and were pro-police in any case, so the few stories that ran were buried in the back pages and the criminal involvement of both organised crime and corrupt police officers was steadfastly ignored.
Both the transgendered and "homosexuals" were routinely "shaken down" by the police to extort money and sometimes sexual favours by the cops, arrested on trumped-up charges to teach them to "cooperate" in future, and also exploited by the Mafia and other gangs, so any members of these groups who dared to claim their rights as citizens were a threat to many untaxed income opportunities.
The Stonewall crowd was more mixed than the people at both the previous riots, and so furnished better "poster children" than did the earlier confrontations, because at the time the transgendered were seen as an embarrassment to the "mainstream" gay {and lesbian) community, so they preferred at least a few guys in skinny black ties and Brooks Brothers loafers to be included in the "photo opportunities."
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Puddin'
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