Is Christmas coming early for America’s gay community?
In an odd bit of scheduling, the nation’s two biggest anti-gay-discrimination fights are in the spotlight at about the same time. On Tuesday, the Pentagon issued the report of its “don’t ask, don’t tell” study commission, which supported a repeal of the 1993 statute that excludes openly gay people from military service. The Defense Department is now on record as saying that the law has outlived its usefulness and that allowing gay people to serve openly would not undermine national security.
There is a gay community in every country, no matter what way they show it. In China there is a park in Chinese city of Guangzhou, where gay men meet up for a variety of reasons instead of going to clubs. Recently 50 members of the gay community refused to leave after police told them that it is “The People’s Park” and not for homosexuals. The group felt extremely offended that they were being treated as if they were not citizens. The support eventually doubled to about 100 people when other citizens stopped, both gay and hetero, to support their gay brothers. The protesters say that if the community was more accepting of them that they would not have to meet up in parks, and bathrooms, to have relationships. This is due largely to many citizens living with their parents because they can not afford to rent a room, and if more parents were accepting, they would be able to take their boyfriends home. In previous years gay pride parades where shut down in different cities in China, so they are hoping the more attention that is given the better chance the gay community will be treated equally.
