Comments on: The Historic Fight for Equal Rights http://tuckerscott.com/2010/02/14/the-historic-fight-for-equal-rights/ Official website of gay porn star, Tucker Scott. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:50:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: CALLUM http://tuckerscott.com/2010/02/14/the-historic-fight-for-equal-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-26 CALLUM Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:25:58 +0000 http://tuckerscott.com/?p=603#comment-26 Tucker, I’m impressed that you have posted this entry - it helps draw peoples attention back to the more profound issues which affect us as gay people the world over and provides a reminder of what others sacrificed on our behalf. Stonewall turned out to be a pivotal moment for gay rights and its impact extended far beyond New York, because in the following year (1970) gay men and lesbians built their own versions of GLF in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Australia and New Zealand. Although the GLF is no more the concept of ‘gay power’ is as strong as ever. Like a lot of other gay men I was exposed to discrimination as a gay child (from nine years old onwards) not only by other children, but worse - by ADULTS who should have known better. In spite of this, I can honestly say (hand on heart) that I have never once agonised about my orientation (then or now). I was born gay and consider myself to be an individual first and a proud gay man second. Re gay marriage: Although we have a ‘Civil Partnership’ in the U.K. (which is viewed as a legal marriage between gays and lesbians) there is still discrimination in my view because there is no religious aspect involved during the ceremony and the word ‘marriage’ is not used. We are ‘told’ that the word marriage is a religious word in itself so a clergy cannot perform a ‘Civil Partnership’ - it has to be a specified registrar.On the surface this is viewed as a 'technicality' but really its just discrimination sugar-coated and many still oppose same-sex marriage here.Thank you for demonstrating your support of equality in such a pragmatic way (donation links etc); the fight for right goes on! Tucker, I’m impressed that you have posted this entry – it helps draw peoples attention back to the more profound issues which affect us as gay people the world over and provides a
reminder of what others sacrificed on our behalf. Stonewall turned out to be a pivotal moment for gay rights and its impact extended far beyond New York, because in the following year (1970) gay men and lesbians built their own versions of GLF in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Australia and New Zealand. Although the GLF is no more the concept of ‘gay power’ is as strong as ever. Like a lot of other gay men I was exposed to discrimination as a gay child (from nine years old onwards) not only by other children, but worse – by ADULTS who should have known better. In spite of this, I can honestly say (hand on heart) that I have never once agonised about my orientation (then or now). I was born gay and consider myself to be an individual first and a proud gay man second.

Re gay marriage: Although we have a ‘Civil Partnership’ in the U.K. (which is viewed as a legal marriage between gays and lesbians) there is still discrimination in my view because there is no religious aspect involved during the ceremony and the word ‘marriage’ is not used. We are ‘told’ that the word marriage is a religious word in itself so a clergy cannot perform a ‘Civil Partnership’ – it has to be a specified registrar.On the surface this is viewed as a ‘technicality’ but really its just discrimination sugar-coated and many still oppose same-sex marriage here.Thank you for demonstrating your support of equality in such a pragmatic way (donation links etc); the fight for right goes on!

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