You are smart. You can be resourceful. You can surprise yourself if you really want to. Have no shame or fear in who you are, and carry that mission out with as much integrity and humility as possible. Goodness is within you, believe in that.
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"Sexuality isn’t a preference so much as an innate characteristic,” proclaims this Gawker scribe, writing about the redundant coming out of Anderson Cooper, with the typical ultracrepidarianism familiar to the subject. How I wish people would stop making this claim! As I recently argued on social media, there’s absolutely no definitive scientific proof that it’s true, and it discourages people who may be identified as heterosexual from exploring their homosexual potential, and vice-versa. When exactly did all this essentialist nonsense become the popular narrative? It may be more politically expedient, but it really amounts to a failure of the imagination, and only serves to play into the new dire homonormativity."
It’s true.
Brianna and her boys. Two go whom are straight. Can you guess which two?
The beautiful Sarah and Julie.
Love.
LGBT Youth Line!
Gay Androids!
Puppy.
"Diversity is more than sexuality. Diversity covers all our human intricacies. The more we try to erase or ignore these differences, the less human we become. To be human is to be diverse, and spectacularly so. In a diverse world, the diverse feel welcome and supported. Let us redefine and celebrate our diversity and our humanity. Let us embrace and welcome our differences."
I found them to be aggravating. As encouraging as some of them were, many just made me angry. These kids can’t wait until things brighten up. For a lot of them, it won’t for a very long time. So many different factors play into their lives, and I think it’s relatively easy for those of us who have had it pretty good (on a sliding scale) to turn around and tell them to “hold out for a while.” These kids can’t wait. They need more.
But this boy, from this video that I just posted—he breaks my fucking heart. Not because of his sadness or his despair, or the fact that he had turned, at a very early age, to cutting himself; but rather because of his strength and resilience.
He gives me strength. Him and his million reasons remind me why I do the work I do, why I speak out, and why I will never hide who I am. I hope and pray that every other queer kid on this planet finds their own million reasons to stay. To fight back and not let them win.
We may not know each other, but we’re all fighting the same fight.
Don’t ever forget this.
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My thoughts are a mess.
All the power to the kids who are here.
Live for those who aren’t.
Take strength from them and fight back.
I don’t talk much about Glee, because as of late, it has become such an odd, divisive queer-mainstream issue. The reasons are obvious, and so I tell myself not to take it too seriously because at the end of the day, it’s a really fucked-up live-cartoon. But tonight was one of those nights where Glee, despite the show’s initial disclaimer of “We are not High School Musical” works best when it is a High school Musical.
Santana’s coming out process has been a long-time coming. After setting the ground work for Kurt’s big debut early on, the writer’s now have free reign to go into some very interesting places with Santana. This is great, because in terms of Lesbian-narratives on mainstream television, there isn’t much. So it’s obvious why this is one of the more interesting story-arcs across the board—the writers have first dibs on a fresh, juicy story that has yet to be slaughtered through the hollywood machine. It’s darker, it’s meaner, and it’s the Karofsky story that could have been—but to say that takes away from Santana. And I would never, ever want to do that.
So back to Glee being a great musical. The Murphykinds took Adele’s two songs, “Rumour Has It” and “Someone Like You,” and used the love, fear and longing of romance to enrich a personal lesbian coming out story. Santana isn’t talking about Britney, as I first thought when I saw the performance online, but instead she’s talking about herself—and the ability to do this is what Musical’s are all about. Every song is a love song and Santana is singing to herself. Isn’t music amazing?
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