It's coming... OUT day!

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's  @saintpepsi 

Jen noted today, that it's national binary day, also Columbus day, and oddly enough it's also national coming out day. Who knew one day could have so many recognizable features. That's right it's a day set aside for those who did things not of the norm sexually to come out and say this is who I am. Well I'll be saying to a world wide web audience that I don't care if your gay, if that's who you are then awesome. I refuse to hate someone based on who they love. When I grew up on a small farm in Kansas I never even knew there were gays or what they were. It wasn't really until college that I realized that this was a way of life for people and that loving someone didn't fit into a box. Most of you can't comprehend this but I grew up before the internet became the tool it is now. I was born basically around the same time as the net and together we have both grown into very weird and astonishing things. That aside I ran into my first “gay” person when I got to college. I found out later that a few members of my high school class were gay too but they hadn't really come out till later. So on to college...

It was in college that I made friends with a guy who went by the name Shade. He was a wicked wild goth who was just about as bubbly and nice as you can get. That's right a gay goth pagan, all republican christian folk beware. Fashion your pitchforks and lynching rope. This was my first introduction to the homosexual community and I have to say I wasn't turned away, repulsed, or even bothered by his sexuality. As my years in college progressed I became friends with more and more of the LGBT community. That's (lesbian, gay,bi-sexual, and transgender) for the layman. I think people know when you aren't someone who hates them for no reason outside of fear. So I gained many a homosexual friend. Weirder still is that I went to school to be a minister. I think Christians above all shouldn't be anti-gay. One of the reasons I don't really go to church anymore. I found so much hate in the christian community that it turns your stomach. Here people are just trying to live their lives and love someone and it seems the world screams that they can't do it. It is not ours as “straight” or “normal” people to judge them as what we deem to be unclean and queer. So easily people throw around words like “fag”, “gay”, and “queer” as common insults and yet we all seem to cringe if racist terms like “nigger” or “wet back” are used in describing someone. We know that it's not right to call someone racist terms but terms based around sexuality are far game.

Recently, I was playing Halo Reach with some friends of mine and of course everyone on live chat screams out profanity and some of the most common used terms are “fag”, “gay” and “homo”. Imagine the shock of some 12 yr old kid and his older brother when my friends said, “why yes I'm gay.” To which these scholarly gents replied, “I bet you suck cock!” Something when said to your average hetero male illicits a mad response. In this case my friend simply says, “I hope I do it well or at least so I've been told.” These red neck bastards were tongue tied it seemed all their insults revolved around gay bashing, but what do you say when the person actually is gay. It was heaven to witness I wish I could have had the whole thing transcribed. Now days everyone knows about homosexuality in it's many forms and thanks to the internet it's not something you can't research. In fact there are many TV shows, movies and celebrities who are gay. Younger generations have positive role models to look up to and know they were unafraid of who they were and made a stand.

Recently, my grandma asked me if I was Gay because it had been a while sense I had a Girlfriend and apparently I act a little gay. I wear skirts, dress in drag, and hang out with gay people. I promptly said no, but would it matter if I was. I personally don't see the harm in it. Gay marriage won't ruin the foundation of marriage, plenty of heterosexuals have done that by getting married and divorced over and over again. Gay people don't threaten our way of life. They certainly don't infringe on any rights held by hetero people. The same rights mind you they are given as well. The only reason people are anti gay anything is because they are against being gay or different. Just admit it! Racist people hate certain races because apparently the color of their skin makes them less than human well that same logic makes for easy understanding of gay hatred. It's because you just don't like it, so they are wrong. How presumptuous of you the haters. I despise any form of hate on your fellow man, be it racism or sexism. Disliking someone because they are different than you and you fear what you don't understand is no reason to hate them. Life's to short to hate. We are all just people save your hate for people that deserve it. People that hurt, maim, stalk, kill, and rape. Those people have forgone their right to be acceptable in society. Hating someone for who they love is just absurd. So come out today, come out as who you are and as that person come out for the rights of all people. Lets put a stop to all this hate and the suicides that have been the result of the assumed hate of a nation.  

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