LGBTQ

Tell me what am I supposed to do when I hear a person call it the "Faggot and Dykes parade"....

Honestly I have a lot of respect for the LGBTQ community. Yes I am with a guy right now, but I will not label myself as "straight". I am ME. I don't believe Love has an age or gender, it only got eyes for the soul. (I don't know man, just go with it. It sounds nice!).

Let me tell you, the LGBTQ community has worked HARD for themselves. Its a revolution guys. They have fought long and hard just to be with someone they love. Honestly I believe the world has no right to judge anyone else but themselves, one is one-self's own enemy right?

Let me start off my talking about my own history. Since I was small I have only been exposed to guy-girl relationships. As a kid in China, I've always had a boy's haircut. I was girly, but it was a school policy to have short hair (yeah, I know, LAME!), and because of this a lot of the girls didn't like to play with me (They had better short hairstyles than me, I was the only one that looked like a guy ;( wah wah wah). So eventually I hung out with mainly guys, and I've had crushes on guys as long as I could remember ;) player status! As I moved my way into elementary in the U.S I began to have girl "best friends". Honestly I have never had bestfriends before and the thought of being so close with someone scares me, especially girls. I've just never been to that level with another girl and something always scared me, the thought that maybe I liked them just because they were that close to me. This was a scary feeling to go through especially because I was so young and didn't know what to think, because in my head I've always thought that you're SUPPOSED to be with a guy.
In middle school I remembered that I couldn't hook arms with another girl because there was a phase where "if you do this if you do that then EWHH YOU ARE A LESBIAN!".... Yeah that didn't help at all. I was sooo conscious with my every move just because I didn't want to be called a lesbian. I WAS NORMAL!
You know whats funny though? After awhile that phase left and it was a "cool" thing to hold hands with your girlfriends and hang out all the time. Shit the media even started provoking girl-on-girl kissing because it was a "sexy thing" to do right? According to the media, acting lesbian or bi made things interesting. The media made us teenagers thought that guys are attracted to "girl-on-girl" action.
As I moved away from San Francisco, I experienced more LGBTQ couples. It's funny how I've never seen any LGBTQ couples at school before till I got OUTSIDE of the "home of the gays". Oh and by this time I was way more closer with girls and well it just wasn't a thing to worry about "if I was gay or not". Because haye, if I was, guys are attracted to that right? Hah and for some reason not until I was out of San Francisco did I gain more respect and more knowledge of LGBTQ and all their history in San Francisco.
Once I moved back to San Francisco, I began to grow and told myself to stop fussing. It doesn't matter what I am, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, OR Questioning, I am who I am, why do I have to stress over it? It doesn't change who I am or what I do or how I act from the way I do now.
Now, after sessions and meetings and all of my LGBTQ friends, I have gained a whole lot of respect and even admiration for the LGBTQ community. One of the biggest event I've done was to be part of a play at school about LGBTQ and the issue the army has against them. I guess the most striking thing about it is that we dealed with some real issues, some real conversations and hatred toward the LGBTQ, and that our teacher, advisor, and director all in one was a LGBTQ member herself. And oh boy she is one of my most respected adults of all times. Through all my experience I learned that the LGBTQ members go through a whole lot. Its not something sexy, as the media shows it. Its not something that everyone accepts. Its something real, something tough and strong, something that went through hell just to be able to have a dam life.

I don't see much difference between this and racism, or any other kind of prejudice. I am a Christian myself and I know it goes against all Christian believes, but is it? Because aren't WE going against all of God's words as we speak? Does "Love thy neighbor" ring a bell? oh and I can also think of a few more, "Do not use God's name in vain", and branching off from that I also have "Do not lie". I may not be a huge bible expert, but I was taught that God loves everyone, but he hates our sins. He loves us, but he hates what we do, and throughout my past years I have learned that those two are actually very different things. Also, I've also learned that sinning is sinning no matter how big or small. We can lie, another can steal, and even worse they can murder, but all of these are considered sins equally. We are all sinners by nature, so don't just hate a certain group of us, hate all of us. But again that brings us back to "Love thy neighbor".

Okay thats all just my basic knowledge of the bible, other experts may have many more points to cross mines. But bottom line, who are we to judge? Like they said, when you point at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.