Rick's Rant - Teen Suicide

[certainthings]

"So, if you're gay and you're in public life I'm sorry, you don't have to run around with a pride flag and bore the hell out of everyone, but you can't be invisible. Not anymore."

Comments

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

He's never hidden the fact that he's gay. He talks about it fairly often. He's done interviews in which he talks about being gay. He says that Canadians are just too polite to ask about it.

[robi0688.livejournal.com]

When asked about it.

Look, sometimes you need the rainbow flags and shit that annoys everyone, because so many people I know, even queer people, don't know he's gay. And if he's going to politicize queerness in general, he's going to be expected to politicize his own.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

He's made his own "It Gets Better" video. I don't think anyone held a gun to his head.

[robi0688.livejournal.com]

Lots of straight people make "It Gets Better" videos too, and some of the people who need to hear about a Canadian icon being gay aren't going to watch it to see what he says. Or even care that these videos exist.