Our children are our future...

There are a few individuals that I know, like a few friends and even my husband, that do not agree with the idea of the LGBT community having its own country. They have expressed that for the LGBT community to have a country of its own would be "extreme" and unnecessary. I found it a bit confusing and hypocritical since one of them is Israeli.

Another person near and dear to me also surprised me by stating that in a country such as the Queer State (QS), in which individuals would obtain children one way or another, would have children that would then be straight and that the QS would cease to exist. To some extent yes, but to another extent no.

I hope to take on these topics this post. I know that this is not an academic blog, but I hope I'm sticking to the facts as I have read them or experienced them. I write an academic paper with proper sourcing and uninterrupted arguments when I have the time and resources to do so.

Ok, let's get started by addressing the issue about a sustainable future for the QS due to straight children. I feel as though I've written lightly on the topic by stating in previous blog entries that the purpose of the QS is NOT to create a country or nation in which ONLY the LGBT community can reside, BUT a community that is created with the intention to PROTECT the LGBT community. It would be welcoming to others, but would prioritize granting of citizenship and residency permits to those of the LGBT community. The country would be a place where ANYONE would be welcome, but with the goal of focusing all resources and efforts into promoting a land where all walks of LGBT life would be able to live an open, transparent and safe life.

One does not need to look to the possible straight children to wonder if the QS would simply become "overgrown" with heterosexuals and then become the same as any other nation, country or state. One needs only look at the bisexual segment of the LGBT population. They would be able to have a partner of the opposite sex without being ostracized. I've written before that the bisexual community or individuals that once identified themselves as homosexual that later change their identity to that of bisexuality suffer discrimination form others in the LGBT community--especially those of the LG segement. This would be something that would need to be worked on and would need to be discussed later.

Back to the children. I feel as though the children would be able to choose whether or not they would like to grow up in a country that is so vastly different to that of other heterosexuals. If the individual felt it was not correct, morally or otherwise, to have such a lifestyle or if said individual felt as though they simply wanted to live a different lifestyle due to the very nature of the QS being located in underwater biospheres (UwB) or platforms (Pf), then they would be offered the opportunity to travel back to their parent's country of origin or to a country with which the QS would have signed treaties. These children would otherwise be integrated into the society--a society in which individuals are hopefully seen as simply people, regardless of their sexual orientation or any other number of self-identifiers. 

I hope that if the QS is successful in its goal of full integration and societal harmony between LGBT and non-LGBT members, that it would serve as a model of how other countries could successfully integrate the different segments of their society and that if the rest of the world learned to integrate their LGBT communities into society, that there would be no more need, per se, for the QS. The QS would then need to reassess its long term goals and find other issues to address. It would continue to be an LGBT country, in the sense that it would still be able to serve as a safe haven for LGBT individuals from around the world if history were to repeat itself and persecution of the LGBT community were to commence once again, but it would not need to be a nation focused so much on the LGBT community and on promulgation of LGBT issues and rights. It would, in essence, become a nation/country/state similar to any other with an amalgam of different sexual preferences, etc, but with the exception of having stated in its constitution that members of the LGBT community would always be able to escape persecution by living there. I know there are implications to that statement like national defense, and those will be addressed later. I will address other foreign policies including immigration.

As for the second point, I'll have to get to it tomorrow...

Back from my personal exodus.

I was beginning to wonder whether the world was changing for the better and that proposing the creation of a QS (Queer State) would be completely ludicrous and a cause for even more strife and segmentation within the LGBT community, but...

I have, unfortunately, gotten a wake-up call. I have recently realized that with all the good that goes on in the world and with all the advances in equality, that there are still forces that seem to resurrect from Hell to fight against us. I feel/fear that the worlds period of development may be coming to a relative close. With fundamental groups and their corresponding pools of conservative cash starting to flex their muscles again, we may be in for one big and ugly fight. Societies in many "forward" thinking nations are becoming more polarized and I fear that the more passive, pacifist left in these nations may just lose the war because of it's very nature. I seriously hope not.

There ARE precedents for such cycles and one needs not look further than our own national histories (in many western and eastern nations/societies) to see that there are, in fact, many cycles of open mentalities and then the sudden closing of the same. This is why I deeply feel that there should be a geographic and sovereign territory set apart for the LGBT community.

We, the LGBT community, have our very own culture and sub-cultures, dialects and arguably our own race. The only difference between us and the heterosexual community is that instead of receiving our nationality or race by virtue of being born to parents in a certain community, we receive them genetically and in a relatively uniform ratio around the world regardless of color, "race" or nationality. In other words, we don't need to procreate with other members of the LGBT community to secure offspring. Our genes are like certian cuckoo birds in that they lay their "eggs" in heterosexuals' nest and are thus raised by these adoptive parents. But unlike cuckoo birds, the LGBT children do NOT push the heterosexual children out of the "nest". It is normally the LGBT child that, if discovered, gets pushed out of the nest.

Things are changing, but that is not to say that they can not revert to the way they once were. It just takes the mixture of any given social climates and there we are again on the chopping board. So why not secure our community as much as possible by creating a nation that would serve as a safe haven able to secure its own way future--as much as possible?

As I have stated before, I do not think that all individuals of the LGBT community should decide to stay indefinitely in a QS. Instead, I feel as though it should serve as a sort of home and refuge--a place where one may go to escape severe persecution, but also an example of how such a community could function and succeed. I would hope that it would help to dissipate long-held biased views of the LGBT community by the educated and only hope it strikes some sort of logical cord among the others that may not be too indoctrinated to see that the LGBT community is no different than theirs and that they deserve to be treated like any other member of society in ANY society.