I Am an LGBTQ Ally!

(Button that I bought from the "I <3 Female Orgasm" event at school)

 

Hello all and welcome back to my blog! Hope you all had good holidays with your families and friends!

So, as my title states, I am an LGBTQ Ally, meaning I support lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered, and people who question their sexuality (as well as anyone else whose sexuality isn’t specified in there!). I support equal rights, and since they are people (yes, their DNA samples and their blood is purely human on a biological level- it’s astounding!), their rights should protected too. It’s just that simple.

If only it were seen as such. The rights of homosexuals have been debated for years. Are they human? Yep. Do they walk the earth among us? Yep. Do they have feelings? Yep. Are they heterosexual? Whoa, slow down now. Who is it that decides who deserves marriage, jobs, and such, and who doesn’t deserve it? Technically, that doesn’t even matter now. The fact of the matter is that we are policing ourselves. We have the final say in how we act, who we shun, and who/what we put on a pedestal. And then our children take our places- for better or for worse.

I grew up in a community that tolerates homosexuality more than anything else, instead of supporting. I didn’t even know what the word “gay” was or meant until middle school and didn’t know anything outside of heterosexuality. So in short- heterosexuality was indirectly preached, homosexuality was indirectly shot down as a choice for me and a lot of my friends and family members. But even so, I know that I have it better than others. Wherein I would face ridicule in my hometown, someone can be jailed or even put to death in another country (there are a few countries that have heavy penalties such as that). I know not every place in the world is safe for every type of person, but I find that ridiculous.

So after being brought up in a semi-homophobic community, why am I an ally? I’ve thought of a lot of reasons, but I’ve narrowed it down to simply this: I have friends who are homosexual. It’s likely that I have friends and family members who may be hiding their sexuality out of fear. I, myself, am questioning my own sexuality and have been for years (I’ll address it more in another post). People who are going through the same thing don’t need another person hating them or hating around them (on people who have already come out) and creating fear about coming out themselves, and I’ll leave it at that.

Does this mean that anyone and everyone who supports homosexual is homosexual themselves? Of course not. It just means that you support the rights of people who may or may not be a little different from you.

A penny for your thoughts- I hope I left an impression on them. Happy New Year everyone!

Dropping the knowledge while they’re dropping the ball in New York,

~H.P. Echo~