Quote of the Day

But you can't know how far you've come if you don't know where you started.  Adult gay men and lesbians don't raise the next generation of gays and lesbians; our history isn't passed from parent to child.  That's why it's critically important for gay men and lesbians, for bisexual and transgender people, to learn their history.  Straight people with LGBT family members, friends, and coworkers should know the history of the LGBT rights movement too.  All straight people should know the story of the gay liberation movement, because it is also the story of straight liberation.  The LGBT rights movement liberated straight people from their prejudices and their fears; it helped straight people see through the goddamn, demeaning bullshit; the movement for LGBT equality helped straight people rebuild relationships with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender family members and friends that their prejudice had estranged them from.

-- Dan Savage, American Savage, p. 170-171