Homophobia

[aries_x]

gakked from bloodie

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the

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[demurediablo]

screw homophobics.

I'll be very honest. I have never met a transsexual, gay or lesbian, to my knowledge. I can't say that perhaps that awareness would fade if I hung around them more. I can't outright criticise without any personal experience. Maybe I would feel uncomfortable, the way you'd feel uncomfortable if you thought that maybe your guy friend liked you. Who the hell am I to assume that I'm above petty judgement? They're people, and they are far from this tiny minority that we can push away and say are against God's will or need therapy. They are human and they have the same rights as any other - the right to be free from discrimination, thr right to live, the right not to live in fear of retribution and vindictive attacks. I think too many people, yes even me, have a shred of homophobia - but it is general, borne of the slight xenophobic bent that every human has. I think many more than that have too much homophobia, and they can go jump in a well.

I can't guarantee unbiased perspective, but I know I wouldn't turn from a friend if they turned out to be homosexual. I sincerely hope what I know is true.

[aries_x]

I think that the discrimination is stupid, awful, pointless, cruel, unjustified, and everything else, like any other. Just being who I am, in the kind of place in which we [as in you and I] are educated, merits discrimination, but that doesn't exactly make them fear me. So why should homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals be discriminated against?

I don't know any personally, per se, but plenty on the internet, and they are perfectly kind to me. I know that their sexual preferences are different from mine, but it doesn't mean that I am any less kind in return or that I treat them differently, because they've done nothing that deserves that. My brother, for example. His best friend Christina has another best friend called Guy. He is very openly gay, and it doesn't bother either of them one bit. From what I hear, he's actually very very funny and nice.

Besides, any guy who's hot is either gay or taken.

And yes, people who discriminate against homosexuals should just go curl up and die in some random corner. Because it's what they deserve. It's alright to have a little bit of homophobia, simply because it's natural. I may not be afraid of heights, but there's still a doubt when I'm way up high. I'm not afraid of spiders, but I'll still scream to hell and back if I see a gigantic one. It applies for everything. And I won't lie and say I don't still fear them a little, but I would never, ever, ever ostracise someone openly for being one.

And I, too, can only hope that any of my friends would be willing to tell me, because I would never dream of ever treating them differently.

Because that's just not who I am, and it's certainly not who you are, Rajeeta.

<3 Ris

[demurediablo]

Aw, thanks Rubes!