Reply #5: I would have said 'sometimes yes, sometimes no' [View All]

[Jersey Ginny]

Coming from a white heterosexual uppper middle class background, and now I'm in the same class essentially as an adult, but one SMALL difference being having a partner who is a woman, I see the priviledge I've lost (can't live anywhere I want for example, can't hold hands without stares or even danger, tax differences), and I also see the many ways I am fortunate-decent job, accepting family and neighbors and friends-straight and gay. I'd have to say that while I am grateful for my life and that many people face circumstances far worse than I do, I feel vulnerable to the hatred that can be whipped up by a radical few. America is not immune to the insanity of the Germans/Nazi's. There is no "gay country" who could fight for "us" like there now is Israel to fight for the Jews. I voted, "yes" that I do feel second class, but that is far from the whole story.