The oppressed GLBT - not alone!

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/05/01/the-oppressed-glbt-not-alone/

[Anglican Mainstream] 1 May 2008--Thank you Peter Ould for this highlight. It is most helpful! The overwhelming reality of pain, rejection and angst for at least some folk in the GLBT community cannot be doubted. They know they are somehow not ‘right’ and become masters of self-censorship. However, validating everyone as she/he ‘is’ cannot be the solution. I keep raising the issue of all the other sexual minorities still in their closets whose lived experience of pain etc. match those of the GLBT to the smallest detail. They too know they are somehow not ‘right’. What about them? Either let everyone out of their closets - as long as the ‘relationships’ are consensual etc. (though this social norm too could give, at some point) and pay the devil - or have the integrity to admit that some sexual minorities need to remain in the closet. What they publicly embrace and advance as a lifestyle is deemed to be transgressive, wrong, toxic for both them and for those around them. In fact, there are various sexual orientations out there - some whose ’alternative’ nature makes the GLBT constellation look almost conservative by comparison - it is just that they have remained under the radar. Given the present state of moral disintegration and the increasing inability to say certain behaviours are categorically ‘wrong’ it is only a matter of time before they too emerge.