It's our human right as gay people to have the same exact privileges that heterosexuals have. We are all one people---gays and lesbians and transgender people are not any different from heterosexual people. We want to fall in love, have a family, have similar ambitions in life, have dreams, want the same things out of life...love, adventure, insane stories.
All of the arguments as to why gays shouldn't be able to get married are sickeningly asinine.
One of my life goals is to fight for this equality until it happens. I will do it in the way I know best---through my writing. Us as a nation needs to get out of this obsolete rut we're in. Sometimes when you look at the bigger scale, it sometimes feels like many act as if homosexuality is such a shocking, earth-shattering thing, and thus it is further stigmatized. It should NOT be the fucking elephant in the room.
Religions that consider homosexuality a sin shouldn't even consider themselves a religion---isn't the whole purpose of a religion to find a peaceful, soothing and accepting sanctuary for oneself? How can something that you are born with be sinful? God made me a lesbian, so that's what makes me special, because that's who I AM. And I have come to being SO proud of it! I will tout it around, I don't care!
I don't give a shit about my staunchly conservative and narrow-minded relatives---quite honestly they are paradoxically the only people I have come across who I feel as if they wouldn't accept me.
What if I get married someday? Would they come? I feel like most of them would. My grandparents? I don't know. I can only name a handful of family members who would be absolutely supportive and over the moon for me.
It's sick. We have television shows about men who have multiple wives but two people of the same sex can't marry each other?
Not to mention, 2/3 of all heterosexual married couples end in divorce these days. That's fucked up. I bet if gay marriage was permitted everywhere that percentage would plummet dramatically.
As for people who "don't encourage the "gay lifestyle"", how could you not encourage something that is only natural? It is the way it is, there is no stopping it. As for those who merely "tolerate" gays, lesbians and transgender people, that's unacceptable. We don't want to be just "tolerated". We are not subhuman; we are not just an "alternate lifestyle", or pegged under the umbrella of "counterculture". We are not just the minority. We make up a portion of mainstream culture as well.
The disconcerting part of all of this is that we haven't come as far as it appears...although, in my experience, none of my friends even reacted to when I said I was gay. They were just like "Okay. You know we still love you a ton and will accept you no matter what!" Some didn't really believe me entirely at first, but I think it sunk in when they realized not all lesbians are stone butches. News flash: there's no such thing as "looking straight." I look like a GIRL. And you cannot guess someone's sexual orientation just by looking at them. I don't believe in gaydar. My good friend from home, let's just call her KB, doesn't believe in hipsters. Well, I believe in hipsters, it's called the post-Beat Generation craze haha, but I do NOT believe in gaydar. If you looked at me, you'd think, "Straight. Has a boyfriend whose a year older, theatre major and is a big coffee drinker and wears skinny jeans." (See? Even if I was STRAIGHT I'd pick out the biggest metrosexual guy I could find! Hey, let's be honest, guys who can get in touch with their feminine side are hot! Namely sensitive men.)
If my friends become interested in a writer, dancer, painter, actor, poet, etc., I will HIGHLY encourage that. I will high five them instantly and ask when the wedding is! But therein lies the bias, since I'm a "creative type", I'm certainly not left-brained, I enjoy people like that. Those who are a little off. Their stock goes way up in my book.
Anyway, the downside of course is my immediate family, on the whole, isn't exactly cool with it. My mom doesn't believe me, first of all. She's accepting of gays and lesbians and is pro-gay marriage and all but well, never expected one of her kids to be gay. Especially coming from the family she comes from. And she acts mortified about it, which hurts me because I'm just teeming with pride! She screamed at me many a time, "You better not be telling people, like your friends you're gay!" I'm like "I'm not!" I'm a dreadful liar, but she'll think what she wants to think.
WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT BEING GAY? BEING DIFFERENT? IT'S NOT THAT DIFFERENT. SAME SEX. SAME TENDENCIES.
My dad is ENTIRELY accepting. He probably prefers it actually. Haha. And my brothers...well one of them kind of knows and I think the other one is getting the idea.
You know what I absolutely love in life that makes me feel perfectly giddy which triggers intoxicating tingles up and down my spine?
Straight people who are just as passionate about gay rights as the gays. I love it! Allies!
Tell me, people, why is it so fucking radical for gay people to be fully accepted in society and not treated as scapegoats who are to blame for the failures of heterosexual marriages?
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