This day. So disappointing. I had just moved to Vermont. Was so excited to have a “progressive “ senator. Well it was a bernie bust for me that day. Couldn’t even let us have one fucking gay day.
But I kept on voting for him. He was a almost ally on votes most of the time and better than a republican. Then he runs for senate in 2006 and tosses us under the bus during rich Tarrant debate. I cried. We had worked so hard convincing Vermonters we needed to move from...
Civil unions to full marriage. We were the experiment State. Could it be done legislatively after a state Supreme Court decision? And where was our progressive hero? Awol. Would not use his voice for us. Then in the debate he says “nope”....
Nope, I won’t work on tax equity for gay couples if I win this Senate seat. (Massachusetts had just passed marriage and we are a neighbor State, many ppl work MA, live in VT pay taxes in both, lgbt were double screwed) “Nope” he says “civil unions were too devisive!”
He called Civil Unions “devisive” six fucking years after our law. Vermont Freedom to Marry had worked for six fucking years by then to heal straight people’s feelings and make the case for marriage. Thanks Bernard.
Every straight “progressive” from that day on told me oh, civil unions is enough. Why do you want more from us? It was too devisive. Wait.
This shit from straight “allies” who’s faces and voices I still hear, looking down, shifting feet, with variations of “We gave you enough” As if marriage could be dribbled out to us in bits by and when the straight thought we deserved a morsel.
This shit straight behavior that every gay knows so don’t deny it, was perpetuated by Sen Sanders. He remains heterosupremacy clueless on #lgbt struggle now. In 2016 he called us “The Gay Movement “. Never trans, never bi, never lesbian, the Gay Movement. Like a 1950’s turd.
tells us to eschew identity politics for the class struggle, obvlious to the horror we face as #lgbt people because straights have identified the way we love and who we are as evil.
Maybe do some listening tours, men. #lgbt would tell you if you’d shut up, sit down and listen. 
*divisive
It was late last night.
It was late last night.
