so tired of the constant in your face celebration of

Because people get bullied, beaten and die for being homosexual......

Wait, what???

Mostly because while you see glorification, the rest of us see a person who is attempting to overcome the stigma that still exists in our world.

My cousin just got a bag of human feces on his doorstep with a note that said "faggot." Yeah, what a thing to celebrate.

Mature.

ETA:  delilahtwo, the thing is, you're right.  It shouldn't be a big deal, and to you, it's not a big deal.  That's great.

There are plenty of people that it is a big deal too mainly because they have first or second hand experience with the abuse associated with being homosexual or transgender.  You say they should be able to walk down the street without fear, we all agree with that.

You're tired of the constant celebration of them being able to walk down the street without fear, well...it's still a bit early and they do have something to celebrate.  We're probably still about 20 years away from all of this not being a big deal.

Consider interracial marriage, for example.  It is SO not a big deal...but not that long ago, people were murdered, beat, abused, etc for even dating someone outside their race.  Still happens today with some cultures in the world and when it does, the outcry is, "THAT'S SO BACKWARDS!" because it is.

We'll get there though...to where this kind of thing isn't a big deal.

I thought so too at first, but I think she is being facetious to make a point.

An estimated 10% of the population is gay/lesbian.

For centuries these 10% have been killed, beaten up, tortured, shunned and seen as freaks of nature, and to this day this still happens. People use the word 'gay' as a insult on a daily basis.

When you are not part of the estimated 90% of the population that are heterosexual, you obviously need to TELL people in your life that you are gay/lesbian. When there is a 90% chance you are heterosexual, do people not just assume we are ALL heterosexual until we are informed otherwise?

Why should gay/lesbian/transgender not celebrate this part of themselves? When they are free to express themselves in public after CENTURIES of being shunned, beaten and killed?

Should women not celebrate equal rights? Should muslims not celebrate ramadan? Should christians not celebrate christmas? I'm sure people's religion do not define an entire person, and neither do their sexuality, but why should we not celebrate this part of ourselves?

I think that the gay and lesbian community have a bloody DUTY to celebrate themselves, after CENTURIES of being treated horribly. They are gaining rights to marry each other and adopt children, and EVERYONE else gets to celebrate that, why not this community when they finally gain these rights?

How many romances on television and movies are heterosexual and homosexual? How many pictures of brides and grooms are we flooded with, and how many of groom/groom and bride/bride?
I have a pretty good idea about who is flaunting their sexuality/romances in the everyday media that sorrounds us today, and it's NOT the gay community!

But please, feel free to unfollow George Takei, you are fully within your rights to choose not to see that. But the gay community is fully within their rights to express and celebrate their own community aswell.

But here is where the disconnect occurs. I am your basic, average, white, middle age woman who has-on the surface of it-never struggled for anything (before now at least, finance suck for me these days and I am learning what that struggle is) but I most assuredly have never had to struggle in an area where I would lose the love and support of my family.

I can't relate to that struggle on a personal level, and I easily could interpret the struggle that others have as a glorification of their lives. But I don't because while I hope that one day there is no differentiate between the sexuality of individuals, I KNOW that day will be a while in coming. 

Each "glorification" moment is one where someone is going out on a limb to proclaim that they are who they are, knowing full well that they may not be accepted.

We live in a country that still fights racial inequality, gender inequality, age inequality...so those who "glorify" their sexuality, they are only paving the way for those who follow. Just as our sisters did in fighting for the women's right to vote, the abolitionists did to end slavery...

It's called being an ineffective bitch.  You look into that. 

Actually, there are websites out there that do "glorify" cutting. Shows them how to do it, how to hide it...just like the pro-anorexia sites.  Very, very sad.

What are the. best. selling. magazines? Those packed with photos of heterosexual weddings. Kim Kardashian, George Clooney, Prince William, etc. Not to mention numerous television series glorifying heterosexual weddings (say yes to the dress), heterosexual couples (real housewives) and heterosexual courtship (Bachelor, Bacherlorette).

Because you are heterosexual, maybe you aren't aware of how "in your face" heterosexuals are about their sexuality. We'd have to have non-stop homosexual media coverage, to the exclusion of any hetero content, for at least a decade to even make a dent in the amount of "in your face-ness" that homosexuality is behind heterosexuality in the United States.