*Input Required* "LGBT History Month"

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Originally Posted by franalexes

Many people have made contibutions to society. None that I know of did so because they were gay or otherwise. It was their special talents, not their screwed up sexuality that made the difference.
While T-gurls tend to have higher mental skills, I haven't seen that transform into a higher culture.
I am proud of WHO I am but I have to cope with WHAT I am.
You might find me at some art festival or a seminar on forestry biology but there is no annual award day for metal art work created by transexual artists who major in forestry biology.

You might as well ask for recognition of people that wear a warm coat on a cold day.

I don't want to speak for the OP, but in general the purpose of celebrating "minorities" and their contributions is not to make the point that their contributions to society were made because they are black, or transgender, or whatever, but to point out that people make contributions regardless of such things. "History month"-type celebrations are meant to take an opportunity to step back and remind the world that despite their best efforts to do otherwise, white men cannot take credit for everything.