Guinness pulls out of New York's St Patrick's Day parade over gay rights
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...cks-day-parade
This is an interesting move by Guinness and one highlighting how the gay community have gone from persecuted pariahs to a celebrated and powerful community in barely a generation.
While most religions and of course our inclusive friends in the DUP continue to throw tantrums, the majority in the West rightly accept the gay community as a branch of human sexuality fully deserving of equal rights.
This very welcome transformation didn't happen overnight. It took a huge amount of effort, time and funding by a determined and well organised lobby.
Sex workers are facing similar persecution to that suffered by the gay community a few decades ago. The abolitionists threw religious diktats, the AIDS issue and their own personal disgust (in some cases disguising their own sexuality) in an attempt to keep homosexuality illegal. Today, sex workers are having minority human trafficking, skewed gender equality and a similar 'personal disgust' thrown at them, along with a raft of misinformation, twisted statistics and scare stories aimed at the public.
The gay lobby illustrate how to turn a cause around and win. The same has to be done for sex workers, otherwise they face a grim, dangerous and depressing future.
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Originally Posted by JMastodon
