Reply #24: Well, you have more than just GLBT people on your side [View All]

[bain_sidhe]

but I think for most of them, GLBT rights are something that are a "good thing" not an "urgent" thing. As a happily married hetero woman, I have to admit that it isn't the battle I wake up to fight, nor the one I can't sleep for worrying about. Yes, it's something I care about, and support with my money and time (at least, sometimes!) but I know my interest lacks the urgency that it has for GLBT folks. It shouldn't be so - as someone here has noted, rights denied to any one of us affects all of us, if only because it sets a precedent - but it is so.

I don't know how to fix that. I'm not sure it *can* be fixed - I think it's human nature to focus more closely on threats that affect us directly, than on threats that affect us indirectly. All we "allied supporters" can do is recognize that tendency, and work to overcome it.