Something that has always been a concern since my days of living in San Francisco was that of segregation of the GLBT community. It is a concern to see a minority start to look for or seek differences and hold those differences so dear that it causes a split in the fabric of the "happy, open-minded community."

What has gone wrong? Why am I seeing GLBT Americans struggling so hard to hold onto their personal differences that they, as a minority, have to take their common bonds and take the community and place it into segments.

As if it is not bad enough we live daily in racial segments, however, now we have to live in racial-sociological and micro-sociological societies? There was a time when communities accepted their common bond and used them to bridge the gap between themselves and other members of the community as well as those outside of it.

Since when did our nation, our community, become far more comfortable with division than commonality. Since when did our nation and our community seek isolationism and xeno-socialphobic habits over open-minded and welcome habits?

The gay community has become as fragmented as the social majority. So now I ask - when will this quest for absolute individualism, isolationism, and social-racial segregation stop? The time is now.