This continues the outstanding series that John Sutter has done for CNN on the state of gay rights in America.
This segment takes a look at what it's like to be gay in small-town, rural America, specificially Franklin County, Mississippi.
The last Census count found no gay couples in the entire county. But they are there, just not very visible. And that's the way the community prefers it.
Good read, with some poignant personal stories, and a reminder of the way life used to be for all of us.
Americans shouldn't have to live as people imprisoned, real or imagined, by the views of their communities.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sutter-fran … ?hpt=hp_c1
It will take decades to reach all the nooks and crannies in the U.S. where ignorance and hatred lie just below the surface. Although the author chose to focus on one rural county in Mississippi, there are thousands of similar counties across the nation where, to one degree or another, such patterns exist.
I'm sad that some people will never change on gay rights, but I am happy that change for the majority of Americans is coming fast now; it seems a flood gate has been opened and surprising percentages of people are polling in favor of same-sex marriage. I think more people are informed about the actual consequences of government discrimination against gays, and although they still don't like us, they at least see how we have been mistreated.