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.