[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

You’re mistaking visibility for equality. LGBTQ people might be more seen, but that doesn’t mean the bias is gone. Hate crimes, workplace discrimination, and conversion practices still exist. Legal rights don’t always mean lived equality.

And calling it victimhood when people speak about those realities is lazy. It’s not about collecting pity points. It’s about demanding the same safety and respect everyone else already takes for granted.

You keep telling me that I am mistaking this for that, but I am not.

But I do think that you maybe mistake equality for equity.

That aside though, I am not talking about being seen, I am talking about there being zero institutional bias against LGBT. In fact, if anything in 2025 the bias institutionally speaking is in favour of them as a group. The social bias/ power, as I say, is situational.

Look, I grew up in the 80s in an openly gay family, when it was actually ****in hard to be gay. I saw what the bias was then first hand. I have seen over the decades how it has changed and improved, and I have seen how so many in the community have refused to acknowledge that because doing so would be giving a portion of their power away.

'Pity points' are social currency, as I say.