cherished-property: naamahdarling: science-sexual:thefibrodiaries:As disabled members of the lgb
cherished-property: naamahdarling: science-sexual: thefibrodiaries: As disabled members of the lgbt community we should be celebrating marriage equality, right? but unfortunately us disabled people who rely on government support to survive risk losing everything and becoming totally financially reliant on our partners if we marry or even move in together. sources: x x What the fuck. Please raise awareness of this. Please let people know.I am disabled, and I am so afraid I will never be able to get gay married. It breaks my heart every day. We fought so hard to get these rights, but so many of us still cannot access them, and that’s frankly disgusting. I had never thought about this. I do know that I have a friend who is married and has been completely unable to get disability. So it probably works that way, too. And as someone who grew up in a family that was the working poor, I can tell you that loss of income is utterly devastating. I had no idea the system worked this way! I can’t think of a way that anyone could abuse the system in such a way, so as to justify having it set up like this. That means it’s just government greed, plain and simple. I will definitely be looking more into this, and what can be done to change it. -- source link
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