Earlier today I received this response from a supporter of Hillary Clinton, who was in my contacts list tagged as a media contact, in response to an email I sent out trying to promote one of my articles.
It's disheartening that members of our LGBTQ community would respond in such a way, especially with respect to an issue that I firmly believe is of great importance to the queer community. We cannot -- and should not -- allow anyone, for any purpose, to distort our history.
This worries me a great deal. Certain members of our community are completely deaf to dissenting voices, afraid of damaging some fragile balance that must be maintained at all costs. The attitude that we all must fall in line, lock, step and barrel, is more than troublesome. Our community used to celebrate our differences and value each other's uniqueness.
When did we shift from celebrating our diversity to enshrining who we, the queer community, are in such a cookie-cutter definition? Further, when did we, as a democratic society, become unable to deal with differing viewpoints, where anything other than the gospel of what one person dictates becomes an attack? When did we lose the ability to compare and contrast differences, facts, views, and ideas?
The conversation below is unedited, although I did remove the footers from the emails as they took up quite a bit of room, and I redacted the person's contact information. I'm including the original email I sent out to my media contacts, as well as the entire exchange that took place with this person.
I don't have an email list, and I haven't sent out emails promoting Bernie (I do that solely through my social media networks). I do send out emails to folks in my contacts when I've written something I believe that affects the queer community and people should know about. Unfortunately, this actually is one of the more polite responses I received.
Read the email exchange on my blog.