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Will gay people have the full equality it has taken centuries to fight for next year?
Jon Ross
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When the gay marriages start next year, will gay people have full equality in the UK at long last, or is there still more work to be done?
What do you think?
What do you think?
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It depends what is next on the LGBT agenda.
And it won't be full equality throughout the UK until they get round to it in Northern Ireland anyway (I'm assuming there'll be no problems getting same sex marriage voted through in Scotland later this year).
Same sex partners in mixed-doubles at Wimbledon.
I won't even venture into the hypocrisy of those many times married, serial "bastards" etc under their belts.
It's a step forward, as was Civil Pertnerships (how ****ing patronising) but it is not far enough!
Preferential parking at supermarkets. The Gay Bay is coming.
On benefits blad blah blah...
A new queen on postage stamps.
Well there is more work to be done here and elsewhere in the world because there are still those who seem to revel in causing misery to other human beings simply because they happen to be attracted to members of their own sex.
People said exactly the same thing 20 years ago.
I also seem to recall mention of flying cars.
It's not really the same. The majority of people under 35 have no issue with gay people outside the highly religious - who are few and far between. There are some, but no more than there are still the odd racist person.
As that group ages and those above die, average opinions change.
You would need the whole car park for Blackpool then.
Rapid progress has been made in the past 60 years and I am certain that we will have full gay marriage very soon.
Is this the first ever thread on DS about gays?
I admire your optimism, but I know plenty of people, particularly men, under the age of 35 who don't like gay people. The same can be said of people who are somewhat racist.
Only yesterday a 20-year-old at work referred to going to the "p a k i shop" and several others I encountered in the evening were talking of voting for the BNP because they are "sick of Muslims" etc etc.
The media like to portray us all as terribly PC, but the reality is quite different. Things have definitely changed over the past 20 years, but there's an awful long way to go.
Sadly this is true. It's not just the majority of the older generation.
That's an extremely ageist remark, and I take grave offence at it.
The 'majority of the older generation' are probably the least prejudiced group of people you could find. They know what the important things in life are (things like "how do I not die for another day?") and don't give a damn what other people get up to, so long as it doesn't affect their own lives.