My Pain is Greater Than Your Pain – I Win!

CNN.com published a commentary today from someone at ESPN that, well, it’s not entirely clear what it’s intent was. It seemed to be an article about the gay community and Obama, but then turned into an article accusing the white gay community of discriminating against the black gay community, and finally, seemed to suggest that the civil rights struggle of gays and lesbians is somehow less worthy than the civil rights struggle of African-Americans.

I considered responding to the numerous problems with this piece, but it’s just not worth it. I’m not fighting for “white civil rights,” we already have someone in America who does that – he’s a creep named David Duke. I’m fighting for civil rights. And I’ve never quite understood the need, or desire, of some to play the “my discrimination is bigger than your discrimination, so you suck” card. It’s all bad, it all needs to stop.

Read the rest at AmericanBlog Gay!