Regardless of race, ethnicity, national orgin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, and ability, you will be treated and respected as a human being. Ignorance, bigotry, and harassment will not be tolerated. This articles aims to provide guidelines for effective ways to assert GLBT alliance respectfully and effectively.
Discrimination is a defensive act of insecurity.
If you don't feel okay about yourself, then it's not safe for you to feel okay about people who are different from you. An insecure person has to believe that one is better than the other, and they can only believe their circle is better than someone else's square. If you felt shaky about your right to your sexuality, you'd feel threatened if someone came bouncing into the room, celebrating his sexuality. Discrimination is a defensive act of ignorance. A lot of times, discrimination is not a product of conscious thought, but of social constructs embedded in the person's thought processes without his or her choice.