{"id":1576,"date":"2005-05-23T23:02:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/23\/the-special-rights-list-for-lgbt-people-well-not-really\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T06:02:30","slug":"the-special-rights-list-for-lgbt-people-well-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"The Special Rights List for LGBT People–well not really"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via DED Space<\/a> yet again, for all of you LGBT folks out there, your oh-so wonderful special rights checklist. Enjoy, bitter-sweetly….<\/p>\n

A list of the special rights of homosexuals <\/strong><\/em>
\nThe right to save yourself a lot of money and stress because you cannot seek political office<\/p>\n

The right to sleep in on Sunday because the churches do not want you<\/p>\n

The right to spend a lot more of your money because the government won’t let you adopt children<\/p>\n

The right to enjoy your post-divorce free time because they government won’t let you keep your children<\/p>\n

The right to have more leisure time because the Scouts and ball teams don’t want you near their members<\/p>\n

The right to develop highly proficient duplicity skills, since revealing who you are may cost you your job, your social standing, and your family<\/p>\n

The right to leave a room where there are children so that other people won’t have to keep an eye on you all the time<\/p>\n

The right to milk a lot of sympathy because members of the opposite gender say your sexual orientation is “such a waste”<\/p>\n

The right, if you are a man, to bask in the knowledge that you seriously threaten a major portion of the male population<\/p>\n

The right to gloat because so many straight people are convinced you desire them<\/p>\n

The right to leave a party whenever you wish because you couldn’t bring your partner or date in the first place<\/p>\n

The right to stay home and watch television while your partner is in intensive care, since the hospital staff won’t allow you in the room<\/p>\n

The right to throw deadly kicks and punches because there is a good chance you will need to do do to keep your bones intact and save your life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow, what a wonderful list! Bah!<\/em> Sadly many things on this list, faced by LGBT people, are very much a cruel reality, especially the last one for Gay men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via DED Space yet again, for all of you LGBT folks out there, your oh-so wonderful special rights checklist. Enjoy, bitter-sweetly…. A list of the special rights of homosexuals The right to save yourself a lot of money and stress … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues","category-lesbian-gay-bi-trans-and-queer-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}