I am gay and everyone says.......
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Hi, Dutchess! I can totally relate to your story. I'm a lesbian and have been all my life, although I did not come into that consciousness until I was 19 years old (I'm now almost 32).
Anyway, once in college, I had a particularly bad meltdown. I couldn't stop crying and I burned myself (I used to self-injure) really bad because I felt so much pain on the inside. Anyway, I called my mom to come get me and take me home for a few days because that's where I needed to be.
In the car on the way home, she mentioned that she thought all of my problems were rooted in my sexual orientation. Perhaps my discomfort with it or confusion about it. I told her in the strongest voice that I could muster at the time that my sexual orientation was the only thing that I was absolutely sure about and that it was not what caused me to have a meltdown.
I have done a lot of research on A & D in LGBTQ individuals, and yes, there's a lot of it. But it's not necessarily due to THEM having a problem with being gay; it's motly due to SOCIETY'S IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE of gay people. All of you on this board who aren't gay, imagine that you live in fear of being rejected just because of who you love. Discrimination against gay people in this country is legal for the most part as we are not protected under federal EOA laws. Now, I am not saying that everyone in the US hates gay people. There seems to be a lot of good positive support on this board regardless of sexual orientation. But in general, it is socially acceptable to discriminate or hurt someone who is gay. Okay, I think I should get off of my soapbox now. Sorry everyone!
Genie
Anyway, once in college, I had a particularly bad meltdown. I couldn't stop crying and I burned myself (I used to self-injure) really bad because I felt so much pain on the inside. Anyway, I called my mom to come get me and take me home for a few days because that's where I needed to be.
In the car on the way home, she mentioned that she thought all of my problems were rooted in my sexual orientation. Perhaps my discomfort with it or confusion about it. I told her in the strongest voice that I could muster at the time that my sexual orientation was the only thing that I was absolutely sure about and that it was not what caused me to have a meltdown.
I have done a lot of research on A & D in LGBTQ individuals, and yes, there's a lot of it. But it's not necessarily due to THEM having a problem with being gay; it's motly due to SOCIETY'S IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE of gay people. All of you on this board who aren't gay, imagine that you live in fear of being rejected just because of who you love. Discrimination against gay people in this country is legal for the most part as we are not protected under federal EOA laws. Now, I am not saying that everyone in the US hates gay people. There seems to be a lot of good positive support on this board regardless of sexual orientation. But in general, it is socially acceptable to discriminate or hurt someone who is gay. Okay, I think I should get off of my soapbox now. Sorry everyone!
Genie
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I have wondered for so long how who someone is sexually attracted to has anything to do with what kind of person they are? People insist on making this such an issue. It is a ludicrous judgment. I am heterosexual, so should I assume that only people who are attracted to people of the opposite sex are good people? What the hec does someones sexual preference have to do with who they are? It seems that society has attached some perversion to anyone who is gay. It's a travesty. I work with many openly gay people. Some of them I am very good friends with and some of them I am not. I also work with openly heterosexual people. Some of them I am friends with and some I am not. This choice comes only after determining if they are caring, giving human beings that I would want to call my friends. I have found that where I live and work, a great deal of the people are very non-judgmental to sexual orientation anymore. It seems as though the stigma has lifted.
God has created each of us to be special people. Plain and simple. He is all loving. I can't imagine that he would waste his time looking at what our sexual preference is. He's in the acceptance business. His Word is only about Love. Everyone should take some time to understand this and appreciate the differences in each other instead of condemning them.
God has created each of us to be special people. Plain and simple. He is all loving. I can't imagine that he would waste his time looking at what our sexual preference is. He's in the acceptance business. His Word is only about Love. Everyone should take some time to understand this and appreciate the differences in each other instead of condemning them.