The Controversy: The LGBT Community

The debates over the controversy that has always, inevitably, surrounded the LGBT community (specifically the gay community) have fertilized a crop of interesting contentions over the years. Recently, with the increasing public and political tolerance of the gay community, this debate — and the bold, equally interesting cocktail of characters that partake in it — have given birth to an alluring inquiry of sorts: Is it cool to be gay? While, at face value, this question seems like a harmless, jab at a lifestyle that has cost actual lives and sparked ground-breaking revolutions, it needs to be confronted with the seriousness that any other threats to the community are. The idea that being apart of the LGBTQ — specifically, gay — community is
a “fad” needs to stop, because it is harmful to members of the community directly, it is harmful to the image of the community, and it panders to groups against the community.