We must keep our rights for them

It is no secret I am gay. It is also no secret, that I married out of pressure to give my parents grandchildren. My youngest granddaughter is gay, so is my niece and my second born nephew. I love them all and support them. They know it. I want to shout out to Anthony Eichy Eichberger. This article is for him as much as it is for everyone else. If gay rights are overturned, we stand to lose a lot. Even more than Roe v Wade. Before the Stonewall uprisings gays in America had no rights whatsoever. We were treated worse than third class citizens. When a gay politician from San Francisco named Harvey Milk was assassinated for his support of gay rights you knew something was adrift.

They are the next generation that we must make sure they have the same rights that people fought for back during Stonewall. Stonewall is what started the gay revolution. But what was it like before we had our rights? What will it be like if we lose our rights? Stonewall was a bar in New York where gays took on the police in order to start the revolution for gay rights.

Prior to gay rights if it was suspected that you were gay you could be fired for that suspicion. A man who had a PHD and working at NASA, was called into his boss's office back in the 1960’s and fired because they thought he was gay. But yet J. Edgar Hoover ran around dressed as a woman and got away with it.