“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”

i just got home from a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ceremony where we watched a video of his “I Have a Dream” speech and listened to a few people give their own speeches about what MLK’s speech meant to them. they spoke about African American rights, Mexican American rights, and women’s rights. and i wondered how that room of people would have reacted if i had stood up and spoken about LGBT rights. and i’m not saying that minorities and women have achieved all that they are meant to achieve, by any means, because there is always more to be done in terms of our equality with the American white man. BUT… i honestly feel that LGBT rights are the final frontier, and the most prevalent in our modern time. these people can’t even marry one another in a country that claims “All men are equal.”

i’d like to take this day to thank Martin Luther King, Jr. for all of his work, and all of the men and women who have made his dream a reality… but i would also like to call upon those same men and women to continue the fight for human equality in the country. respect your fellow LGBT Americans. help get them what they, as human beings, rightfully deserve.