Apparently tribes don’t have sub-tribes.
Here’s the thing: lesbians tend to befriend other lesbians. There are in-jokes and there’s culture and obviously there needs to be a manual for those who are newly out so they aren’t quite so clueless when hanging out with lesbians who’ve been out longer than them.
Here’s the other thing: CrossFitters tend to befriend other CrossFitters. There are in-jokes and there’s culture and obviously there needs to be a manual for those who are new CrossFitters so they aren’t quite so clueless when hanging out with folks who’ve been CrossFitting longer than them.
You’d think there would be a subculture within either group that would encompass the other, wouldn’t you? Well, I can’t find it. And I’m frankly baffled.
Case in point in terms of not being able to find anything: the two threads on gay Crossfitters over on the Crossfit forums were closed, apparently because people kept fighting and arguing (mostly it was trolls who don’t “approve of” the “gay lifestyle” who came in and picked fights, and the LGBT folks and allies engaged.). Now sexuality – well, specifically non-heterosexuality – is lumped with religion and politics as verboten topics over there. Just lovely. I sooooo enjoy being a banned topic. Googling turned up very little, other than the fact that most Crossfit gyms don’t update their blog software enough (holy disgusting link spam in the comments…) and that the term “gay” is still used as a very common insult. Sigh.
So I put this out there: are they any other LGBT CrossFitters out there, other than the 3 I know at my affiliate?
My mom forwarded an essay to me and a bunch of other people today. Normally I just scan forwarded messages, but this one grabbed me. Written by retired Episcopalian bishop John Shelby Spong, this message outlines exactly why he rejects homophobia. To that I say, Amen!
“I will no longer listen to that pious sentimentality that certain Christian leaders continue to employ, which suggests some version of that strange and overtly dishonest phrase that “we love the sinner but hate the sin.” That statement is, I have concluded, nothing more than a self-serving lie designed to cover the fact that these people hate homosexual persons and fear homosexuality itself, but somehow know that hatred is incompatible with the Christ they claim to profess, so they adopt this face-saving and absolutely false statement.”
So many times in my childhood and young adulthood I heard this phrase: “love the sinner but hate the sin” and wondered what it really meant. For a long time I decided it was just b.s., but it was only today that I understand what was leaving a bad taste in my mouth: the hypocrisy.
Go and read it. It’ll be worth it.
This is why straight allies are so important to those of us who care about same-sex marriage. Keith Olbermann brought tears to my eyes with this special comment. (If you can’t see the video, you can read his comments at the MSNBC site.)
These are just a few of the things I’ve read since Wednesday morning about Prop 8 in CA. I’m not sure I agree with all of them 100%, but each of them has had some nugget in them which has resonated with me.
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Op-Ed from Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese on Approval of Proposition 8
“Fifty-two percent of the voters of California voted to deny us our equality on Tuesday, but they did not vote our families or the power of our love out of existence; they did not vote us away.”
You Can Forget My Taxes by Melissa Etheridge
“(S)omeday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.”
It’s God’s Fault: The cruel success of Prop. 8? Not Newsom, not gays. Blame You Know Who by Mark Morford
“(Interestingly, I believe this is the same God who, until recently, didn’t allow whites to marry blacks. Or women to vote. Or slaves to be free. Or people to get divorced. Or women to become priests. Or humans to wear condoms. Hmm.)
“So let me correct myself…. I do not blame God. I blame a very gloomy, revisionist version of the divine, a sour and demeaning mindset that believes in restriction, constriction, dread.”
The President-Elect Wants Your Story over at Mombian
“To drop the new administration a hint, however, why not share your story or vision via the Change.gov site, as they request? No guarantee that they’ll use them, but I say a flood of LGBT stories can’t hurt.”
Cartoon by (and copyright) Mikhaela Reid
“but we will soldier on.” On Prop 8 by theantidesi101 at Pam’s House Blend
“To every hurt soul out there, prop 8 is not your future. Your future is happiness, your future is community, YOUR FUTURE IS THE OPTION TO START A FAMILY OF YOUR OWN. Your future can be wedding vows. Your future can be love. Your future can be all those annoying things married couples complain about. Your future is not defined by the forces of the past, the forces behind Prop 8. Your future is the only age demographic that opposed Prop 8, those 18-29 years old.“
