Last week, the American Family Association launched a boycott of PepsiCo. The AFA boycott is based, in part, on the PepsiCo Foundation's support of PFLAG’s Straight for Equality in the Workplace project.I got this email today from PFLAG saying to call the Pepsi Company to thank them and tell them that I will only buy Pepsi products from now on because I am a PFLAG member.
I will, but before I do I would just like to rant about something. Why is it that the AFA hates gay people so much? I mean, what did we do to them but be gay? We didn't hurt their chances of having equal rights like they did us. So why are they boycotting a company for saying hey, we like gay people and we support them in the work place? All gay people ever wanted was equal rights, to be treated like a human being and not be told that we can't have a piece of paper that says that we are joined together as one. That we can do our taxes as a couple and not individuals.
I'm just really confused. Is this not the year 2009? Have gay people been around throughout time? Yes they have. Michelangelo was gay. I can't think right now of all the gay people throughout history but there is record of gay people all throughout time. Did you know that gay people were in the concentration camps in WWII? Yes, where do you think the pink triangle came from? While the jews wore a star of david to show that they are jewish, the gay people were forced to wear a pink triangle to show they were homosexual. And did you know that during this time the jews treated the gays the same exact way the germans did? Oh yes my friend, gay people have been persecuted as long as there has been persecution.
In the 1970's gay people reclaimed the triangle, turned it upside down and used it as a symbol. So this I tell the AFA. We're here, we're queer, get used to it cause we're not going away. Gay people have been around since the dawn of time and we're going to be here until the end of time so get over it.
