However, I don't think Meteor Blades would much appreciate a group called the "Fucking Pissed Off Gays". So Angry Gays will have to do for now.
So why am I a disgruntled homosexual?
I'm angry that I'm going to have to spend more money on taxes, health care, and more because the government does not approve of my sexual orientation.
Here is what we came up with. In our worst case, the couple’s lifetime cost of being gay was $467,562. But the number fell to $41,196 in the best case for a couple with significantly better health insurance, plus lower taxes and other costs.
And I'm even angrier that the solution to many of these problems is so fucking simple.
Nearly all the extra costs that gay couples face would be erased if the federal government legalized same-sex marriage.
I angry that in a country where vicious hate crimes against sexual minorities remain commonplace, it took Dan Savage to point out that the media should stop giving anti-gay hate groups a platform to spread lies and junk science about sexual minorities when they would never allow the same to be said of other minority groups.
Despite the progress we made--thanks for finally recognizing that gay soldiers don't join the military for the shower room nudie shows--I am angry that it is still legal to fire an employee because of sexual orientation in 29 states and gender identity or expression in 38 states. I'm even angrier that we had large majorities in Congress, but we could not get the Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed. We had a Republican co-sponsor, but it died because control of the legislative agenda was ceded to the conservative Democrats in the US Senate. Too many were afraid of those lies about child molesters in bathrooms spread by the aforementioned hate groups to protect sexual minorities from employment discrimination. Too many were afraid of leveling the playing field when the angry straight white men were struggling. We just want to keep our fucking jobs! There is nothing "special rights" about that.
And despite the progress for the L, the G, and the B, I'm angry that the T are getting left behind.
I'm angry that a veteran such as Autumn Sandeen is treated like this after being arrested at a DADT protest at the White House.
My peer female protesters -- Cadet Mara Boyd, and Cpl. Evelyn Thomas -- were in a holding cell behind the U.S. Marshal's station. They heard that same U.S. Marshal in the fuchsia blouse state the following to one of her peer officers (emphasis added):
"Did you see it? The nerve of it to be wearing a Navy uniform. Did you see the shim in the Navy Uniform?"
Calling transgender people "it" is clearly a way of dehumanizing transgender people. "Shim" -- a term relative to "she-male" -- is also a dehumanizing term to identify transgender people. President Obama, your U.S. Marshal calling me "it" and "the shim" is the equivalent to calling an African-American by the n-word, or calling a Gay-American by the antigay f-word, it is absolutely unacceptable.
And while we've made progress in improving the treatment of same-sex couples in American hospitals, gender identity bias remains rampant, as rserven recently reported :
19% of the sample reported being refused care altogether due to gender identity or expession. American Indians reported the highest level of treatment refusal at 36% while Latino/a respondents reported the highest incidence of unequal treatment (32% by doctor or hospital and 19% in both ERs and mental health clinics). Those who worked in the underground economy suffered refusal-to-treat at a rate of 30% and those on public insurance had a rate of 28%. Even those who had transitioned had a high rate (25%).
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28% of respondents reported verbal harassment in a doctor's office, emergency room, or other medical setting. 2% reported having been physically attacked in a doctor's office. 1% reported being attacked in emergency rooms.
As angry as I am about the treatment of sexual minorities in the "land of the free and the home of the brave", that's not the reason I'm so fucking pissed off. I'm fucking pissed because we're expected to accept that this treatment will continue until "society changes". I'm fucking pissed because so much of contemporary American society seems indifferent to how we are being treated. I'm fucking pissed because I'm told that I'm impatient. Children are impatient on Christmas Eve. Equality is not a gift.
So no, I'm not impatient and I'm not just pissed. I'm fucking indignant and I'm fucking pissed off.
And I'm not going away!