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Fifty years ago, in 1974, I came out by participating in early Gay & Lesbian rights marches sponsored by the newly-formed Gay Ativists Alliance in Cleveland Ohio and by cofounding a Gay-Straight Alliance at my alma mater, Case Western Reserve University. In doing so, my photo appeared one week in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, and in the CWRU campus newspaper. My uncle was on the teaching staff of CWRU's School of Medicine. A year earlier I had come out to one of my best friends in our undergraduate studies there, as he began Law School at CWRU; he became, might I say, enraged that I had not trusted enough to tell him I am Gay years earlier, so much so that he imediately ended that friendship. Still, I remained semi-closeted, largely because I didn't have the knowledge and support of a community or, most of all, the belief in myself that I'm okay - better than ok - just the way I am. In 1977 I wrote a letter to the editor of the Plain Dealer, critical of Anita Bryant and her hateful campaign against Gays who, she believed, were "recruiting" schoolchildren; the letter was published and the day it appeared I walked into my office at work to see that day's editorial page open on the desks of nearly every co-worker; I felt ostracized in the office from that day forward. A few years later, in late 1979, I'd been dating a Bi man for about six months when I was fortunate enough to be offered a new job in San Francisco. He was unhappily married and more unhappily employed, and after LOTS of talking he decided he'd come with me to California. The following weekend, at home to discuss the situation, his wife blew his face off with a firearm (then turned the gun on herself in the same fashion). Now, there a lot of additional issues there I admit, but at 28 years old from a small town, I was severely traumatized by the violence, and by my thoughts that he was killed because he was leaving his wife for another man. I took the job but, despite the fact I'd landed in "The Land of Oz" for Gay men at that particular time
Dave supported: Stop Erasing LGBTQ+ History: Restore It to National Park Service Websites Now!LGBTQ+ history is American History. Sadly our leaders continue to pretend that queer life is some secret separate thing from the stories that we all know and learned about our history books. Many times queer stories were edited out to make people think we haven’t contributed to American progress. Queer Americans not only fought for gay rights but fought for religious freedom, fought to found this country in the principle of freedom for all from 1776 to today. Queer Americans have contributed to the creative, scientific and technological success all Americans live today. Why pretend we do not exist and try to erase queer Americans from text books, monuments and real places then? The truth is we won’t be erased cause we have always fought to make the world know we love, we live and we will not be quiet about our existence.
William supported: Stop Erasing LGBTQ+ History: Restore It to National Park Service Websites Now!Erasing , white washing, or silencing history is exactly why we're in this constitutional crisis. History is repeating it's ugly past because the truth has been withheld.
Clista supported: Stop Erasing LGBTQ+ History: Restore It to National Park Service Websites Now!My LGBTQ friends were far more supportive of my finding myself than anyone in my church. I am straight, and religious, but I have never seen any actual faith-based reasons for the hatred polluting this country. It is based only in hatred for anything other and twisted interpretation of scripture. This must end, because we can be better than this. We simply must choose to be.
Camren supported: Stop Erasing LGBTQ+ History: Restore It to National Park Service Websites Now!I am a Mother of an LGTBQ adult, but before that I was raised that all humans are created equal regardless of their backgrounds, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
JANET supported: Stop Erasing LGBTQ+ History: Restore It to National Park Service Websites Now!I do not understand why the current political system is so determined to destroy people's livelihoods and insist on calling people's life work and occupational dreams "government waste."
There has been no thought put into the long term effects of these decisions and how it will affect the beauty and integrity of our beautiful and beloved national parks.
The National Parks Service has provided much needed services for decades and those employed by the NPS should be applauded and appreciated for all they do to ensure the safety of visitors to national parks, and the work they do to maintain and protect these beautiful places for both present day and future generations. Please reinstate the jobs of park rangers and NPS employees. And please stop destroying people's livelihoods and careers.
Laurel supported: Save the beautiful National Parks of the United StatesNational Parks are a place people go for healing, to feel peace, and to be at one with God. My family and I have so many special memories in National Parks and continue to create more. As stewards of this land it is essential that we care for these untouched, natural places that remain and preserve them for future generations.
Erica supported: MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT FUNDING TO ENSURE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SITES REMAIN UNDER THE NPSYou’re not alone — a community of supporters is ready to back you.
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