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Originally Posted by Grumpybear
While that is easy to say, it is not going to happen. There will be no public protests against police crackdowns on cruising and gay suppression laws. The politicians will lie to the general public that these are necessary to protect the "quality of life" in their community. Nobody is going to stand up in a public meeting and argue that gays have the right to seek each other out in public places.
If you want to cruise in the great outdoors, you need to recognize the risks and be prepared for the consequences, however unjust.
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I have personally stood up in public meetings and argued that what people do behind bushes is no one else's business. My strategy is simple: to demand that if the law is to remain on the books and enforced, it must be enforced equally. Demand to see the records of arrests in your community and you'll soon see the pattern: the vast majority of those arrested are same sex encounters. Then you threaten the local town with a lawsuit, and demand they prove that the law is applied equally. It never is.
Straight people consider public sex a rite of passage, a way to spice up a marriage, a casual way to get off in the midst of passion. Gay men are treated literally like sexual predators and put on sex offender lists because they engage in the same behavior. It is not right. It must be challenged.