A good time to be gay?, no, not just 4:20 Options

[PalePhoenix]

People of all stripe and creed can often be heard to say how much harder things were for whatever they are "way back when." Technically, you'd probably need to have been living long enough, be at least semi-involved, and self-admittedly homo to be able to put a barometer to Today vs. Yesterday. Too often, though, being gay [or bi, or black, or a woman, or Catholic...] is brought up to discuss the things which currently suck about it, and none of what's good or appreciated.

I feel quite certain that I'm a product of the actions and energies of the gay men that came before me (and not merely in front of me). A personality like mine probably couldn't have existed before the 1980s, and the rights I claim as my own would never even have been spoken aloud much before then.

We squabble over gay unions, whether characters on TV accurately portray us, and worry that our friends and families will disown us. Just when we think anti-gay violence is on the wane, we get a Matthew Shepard. XM isn't about being gay so much as it is about being a creative, more fully actualized and expressive person. It's hard to do that if you think the world's against you, and not that you're living in the best time for a homo there's ever been.

How half-full/empty is your glass?

[JBlueEyes]

The Chinese Year of the Ox doesn't looks so hot. Gorgon also says Pluto is in Capricorn. Antidepressants for everybody!

[Xaotrix]

The Chinese Year of the Ox doesn't looks so hot. Gorgon also says Pluto is in Capricorn. Antidepressants for everybody!

I don't take any of that prescription junk, but I imagine there are a lot of gay men on it. A lot of depressed gay men. I just hope they're not depressed because they're gay. I think that's a crock of shit, but I know it happens. Too much of America is on something, and I think that freedom with passing out pills is spreading to the UK and the rest of the Western World.