It is as if our lives are perceived to be too vacant, our issues too boring, our images too threatening. I propose that we do to our own media what several of us did to the New York Times when our deaths could be found on the obituary pages but our lives were invisible throughout the rest of the paper. Show them the problem, offer specific suggestions, then hold them accountable. If they refuse to recognize the significance of our lives, treat them the same way you would treat the straight media. That'll make a story someone will cover.
Invisibility is unacceptable.
It will be June again, and in cities and towns across the country we will be gearing up to celebrate another lgbt Pride. I think it's important to keep in mind that Stonewall was not simply an event that gave birth to a series of other events. What it began was a process. A process wherein we approached institutions that had labeled us either criminals, sick or sinners . and sought justice, fairness, access. Like other groups that came before us, we had to learn to work a reluctant system into being a more responsive one.