People are here primarily for the games I expect as opposed to GOG's stance on that otherwise. Nobody is going to show themselves out and away from their game library due to an annual exceptional notice of one group or another for those within being who they are.

With this you have said it all. Something between him/her and God. All the others don't have any right to judge.

That's a lovely story

And you know what

If every LGBT+ person across the world for the last 50 years could all tell a similar story, Pride wouldn't exist.

But here's why it does

If your Organist wanted to marry his partner, the priest wouldn't have gone "Well I had fish last Friday and I'm currently wearing a poly-blend, you know what we don't always take the Bible verbatim, lets get you guys hitched!", because he didn't have equality.

When you organist was sick, his partner had no legal right to know his medical condition, to be there at his side, he'd could have been treated like a total stranger and been able to do nothing about it. And if he died, would have no right to his estate.

And for most LGBT+ people for a very long time, they didn't get any kind of acceptance. They suffered harassment and attacks, even murder.

My daughter born in 2000 had abuse for having short hair and holding hands with her girlfriend.

So yes, you have a nice story of acceptance, but thats all it is.

Is it so hard to remember that freedom of expression is an important element of the comparatively free world that shouldn't be critiqued when exercised with civility?

What is political are some of their specific legit demands and those are fought by some Political Parties not by the LGTBI movement itself. Anyways I do not consider it a bad thing, it is the only legit way to achieve something. Like the rest of the society does
Being Gay, Lesbian or the "demands" of normalization, respect and visibility without being threated are pure human rights. More a bare minimum than proper poltics

This date per se is just a Celebraton and a recognition. It is what it wants to be yearly

Then it would become a political movement, that is right. Fighting for rights is political. Btw, did anyone tell you not to appear in public?

One doesn't chose to be gay, one doesn't chose to be trans, but it is a choice to be part of the LGBTXYZ+ community (or ABS: anything but straight), there is at least one poster here, who very much doesn't want to be identified with them.

This community very specifically excludes those who are neither of these things. It's not like a bowling club. Like no one choses to be gay, no one choses to be straight and excluded from this group that drools so much for attention.
If one wants the same rights for all, all must be included and not just those with a specific sexual orientation. How can one expect acceptance for a group that specifically excludes the biggest part of the population? Of course those being excluded develop resistance, that's only natural thing. Just like the non straights, the straights don't want to be excluded either.
One wants to be treated the same way as all others, still he puts a lot of effort into showing that he is different. Most people don't care at all what you are, but you keep rubbing it in their face. The son of one of my cousins is gay, another cousin became muslim so he could marry his love ... so what? They don't make a big deal out of it, they are still the same people as always. They don't need to run around and announce it to everyone. Of course it helps to know that alcohol is a nono for a muslim, but I don't drink alcohol either (by choice), I am also glad if people don't even try to offer me some.

Remember the suffragettes? That were the first women who openly fought for their right to vote. Being a woman is not political, being a suffragete was.

You might not agree with what I said here and that's perfectly ok. That's just my view on things, usually I don't talk so much about it.

But don't you ever claim that LGBTQ+ is not political, because no matter who you blame for it, it is very much so.

Why not? Everything else is.

Those who legislate against us make it political, not us. Dont get your panties in a bunch over it.

Putting aside whether or not it affects others, I just want to say this to both the conservatives or liberals who are hedging on this and playing at neutrality: this sentiment is actually hateful.

I care if people are harming themselves, and not just others.

And take note: neutrality is a myth. Some people here have figured this out, so make your choice.

No matter who you blame, it is political. Don't act as if it isn't. Not all gay people are automatically part of this group or even want to be. It is a choice, the group was formed to be political.

ps: I am also part of a minority that has to fight for their rights, we are at a good point, but even after 105 years we still struggle. At least for about 70 years now we can have our own schools again, which were forbidden before and the UNO supports our cultural equality. It was not always as peaceful as it is now (I'm talkiong about bombs, torture and firefights here), but there are still tension between the people in our region and also between our region and others, which we have to endure every day, which cost a lot of our energy just for being who we are.

Thats because GOG isnt pro LGBT+, theyre pro making money. Pandering to us gets them that because enough LGBT+ will buy into it. Same thing with Target and Bud Light in the US. Those companies donate to the GOP. If GOG cared, they would put LGBT+ games on sale, include more games and try to get games on here that arent here yet. And if diversity actually mattered to them, they would do the same for Black History Month.

That makes complete sense.

Obviously, most of the LGBTQ+ community have surgery and of course indoctrinate a great many people who otherwise have no inclination to do so to have expensive, very personal, life-altering surgery.

It is a given that you'll have lines of people going "Well, the surgery was a spur of the moment thing, the guy explaining it was just so charming that I had to try it out, didn't know it would be permanent". That's totally a major social risk. Most people I know are just so eager to go under the knife... they just can't contain themselves...

You'll have to forgive the sarcasm, but this train of thought it kind of absurd to me. I'm sure it will happen in a very small minority of cases, but life doesn't tend to be tailored around small minority cases, otherwise society would stop being functional. Nothing is perfect.

For the overwhelming majority of people who go though it, I'm sure they've given it a lot of thought and it is the right course for them. This tends to be the medical consensus as well.

This seems like a problem of semantics. When I see LGBT+, I think of a name for a group of people with some things in common before I think of a political movement.

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One of the posters here has that in common but doesn't want to be connected with LGBT+.

As I already said: women and suffragettes.
The one is a common genetic property, the other one is a common (ideologic?) goal.

The moment you want something as or for a group, you are becoming political. Even if you say: "I as a man (or woman), want ...", you are political.

Why are people acting like Gay and lesbian people are the same thing as Trans people?
They are not
Many gay and lesbians feel their struggle have been hijacked by the additonal letters
and they dont nececarly agree with all the acttion of the "LGBT+ comunity as a whole