Imagine the one thing that you are ashamed of, the thing that makes you different from everyone else, the thing that makes you feel the most sensitive. Everyone has something. Maybe it’s the sound of your voice, the shape of your body…
That feeling of being out of place, of being completely alone at times, is reality for thousands of kids who identify as gay or homosexual every single day.
Now again, imagine being bullied for the thing you feel most sensitive about, you then start to feel bad about it because every single day someone comes up and asks about it. The bullying starts to get worse because after you told the people you thought were your friends, rumors about you go around, and they aren’t good either.
I imagine that if it were happening to you, you’d feel like you’re falling apart. If it were happening to you, you’d want it all to stop, and it wouldn’t.
Then you tell your parents and they don’t support you. They don’t talk to you the way they used to, they don’t interact with you as much, they become alcoholics, they commit crimes, and you feel like it’s your fault because everything was perfect before you told them any part about it.
You then start thinking to yourself “ if only I hadn’t told them”. Soon enough after you think that, guilt begins to kill you inside, making you feel unloved and uncared for. You can’t get it out of your head, you feel like nobody cares. You start to cut yourself and the kids at school notice, you stop eating and your ribs and collar bones show, then finally, you hold a gun to your head. As your last breath rolls from your mouth you cry, and then you pull the trigger.
You wouldn’t want that for someone you love…… so why would you let it happen to another person? Just like regular people have their rights, homosexuals deserve their rights too. We should all be considered equal instead of some of us being excluded because of our sexuality.
I want to talk about three huge problems that most people would be afraid to talk about, that most people don’t consider important. I want people to see a perspective that is commonly overlooked everyday. I have my own viewpoints and ideas that I consider important, and other people should too.
Homosexual protection rights laws need to be passed because far too many violent crimes are happening to homosexuals every year. In 2016 it was proven that a hate-crime to homosexuals happened every 13 days. In 2017 it was proven that a crime to homosexuals happened every six days, it gets worse every single year and nothing is being done about it.
I want people to see how wrong it is to treat a person different from another just because of a sexuality that differs from another. Just like if a rich person were to treat a poor person like they are any different. We are all the same and nobody should be treated differently, even if we have a different wealth level or social class.
And Finally, I want us as people to come together at the worse times when someone needs it, like in school when your bestfriend is being bullied. I want us as the human race to come together and agree with anyone choosing to be homosexual and I want us to stand up for eachother with no fear of being brought down.
No one should have to go through the burden of being stressed because of something as simple as that. This is something that needs to be looked over because many people that are homosexual feel bad about themselves because of all the heterosexual people harassing them.
We all deserve to live in peace and happiness with each other, nobody deserves to be shunned or disregarded. Nobody should be classified into groups, we should all be together and we should all love each other just the way we are and without change. Love is love no matter what kind is given, it can’t be changed with the simple snap of a finger.
What if you have a friend, a brother, or any other family member who is gay? What if he gets/got bullied, you wouldn’t stand there and watch it happen. No! You’d defend him.
This is what you should do for anyone out there who’s gay that goes through the same problem everyday. If it were you who were gay and you got bullied, you’d want somebody to stand up for you, you wouldn’t wanna have to go through that every single day of your life.
Just like everyone should, homosexuals should be given acceptance. They don’t deserve to be pestered and picked at, they’re people too and people have feelings whether you believe it or not, they don’t wanna be tormented when they’ve done nothing wrong.
I have more than 5 homosexual friends and I love them like they’re my family. They are some the nicest and funniest people I’ve ever met. In school they’d get bullied but I’d stand up for them because they’re my best friends, I’m the hero that went to their rescue. They’d even stand up for me too. Homosexual people are great to have as friends, they aren’t mean because they know how it feels to be intimidated because somebody thinks it’s not gonna affect somebody else's life. If you would open up to people like them, you’d have more friends, you wouldn’t have to feel lonely to where you push yourself into bullying them.
Homosexuals should be allowed everywhere, it shouldn’t against the law to live somewhere and be homosexual. Homosexuals shouldn’t have to migrate just to be with their partner. We shouldn’t have to let someone else tell us we have to move because they don’t like the way we enjoy our life. Homosexuals deserve the chance to be in a city, state, or country that they feel comfortable in.
There’s also a problem with people shunning any person that shows any sign of being homosexual. Anyone should be allowed to explore their sexuality. Even if someone’s homosexual we shouldn’t exclude them from our community.
Homosexual people have been told that it is a sin, just for being them. Question is, is it really a big problem? Around the world, people face the death penalty, just for being homosexual. Liking your own sex shouldn’t be seen as something that’s wrong. Homosexuals deserve just as much love as regular people would get, Heterosexual people don’t have to face hatred for liking the opposite sex, so why should homosexuals have to? In the bible it is not stated that homosexuals should be shown hatred, it is stated to “pursue peace with all people” regardless of their lifestyle (Hebrews 12:14). Yes, the bible does make it clear that God designed a man and woman to be together(Matthew 19:4-6). The Bible may disapprove of homosexual acts, but it does not condone hatred of homosexuals or homophobia. Instead, Christians are directed to “respect everyone.” (1 Peter 2:17).
Everybody deserves to be considered normal. Homosexuals should not be pushed away as if they are any different, they deserve just as much as Heterosexual people would get. Even though we are all unique and different, we should be treated as if we are no different because we are all the same, no different.
We all are different on the outside, but on the inside, we’re all the same. Nobody should be judged for liking the same-sex, we should be able to get past the fact that homosexuals are people too, and those people should have the right to live life the way hey want to. Homosexuality is something we should be able to get past quickly, it shouldn’t bother us for them to be around us just because they are choosing to be gay. They deserve to live without guilt, they deserve to be able to live without hating themselves.
Even if you have homophobia, you shouldn't wanna commit a crime because you’re scared of them. If somebody were to cause harm to you because they are scared and feel threatened by you, you wouldn’t show any signs of being homosexual, and this is what most homosexuals go through.
If you as a homosexual gets bullied, harassed, etc., then you need to report it. This is a problem with some homosexuals because 4 in 5 homosexuals won’t report crimes that happened to them to the police. Many avoid certain streets and they avoid holding hands with their partner in fear of being attacked.
If you are gay or homosexual, you shouldn’t hate yourself. You shouldn’t cut yourself or abuse yourself because of another person bullying you about it. You shouldn’t hide it because you feel unconfident about yourself, you are beautiful in every way. You are beautiful for being yourself.
No matter if you are any type of sexuality, you will always be beautiful. Don’t let somebody else try to force you out of what you feel comfortable in being. You don’t have to change yourself, you don’t have to become somebody you’re not, and most of all, you shouldn’t have to feel ugly or disgusting. You are neither of those, in my eyes, you are a hero for being yourself.
We are all unique in our own way and we shouldn’t be pushed out of being who we wanna be. If you as a person would bully somebody that has a different sexuality, you obviously don’t deserve to be here in your own place. You should be in their place to see how you make them feel. If you knew how you make them feel you wouldn’t do it. If you knew the pain that they feel after you bully them, you’d start to feel bad and you wouldn’t do it.
You never know what’s going on in somebody else's home while you aren’t there. You never know what people are capable of doing to themselves. If you were in that situation at home and you got abused or something bad happens there, you already have that on your mind dragging you down, making you slowly lose your sanity. Then somebody starts to push you around at school and make you feel unwelcome, we all know that your mind would start going crazy and you’d completely lose your sanity because you’d be tired of it because nobody helps you.
We should all unite with each other as if we are family. We should all show unconditional love for someone choosing to be themself. Us as the human race have a job, and that job isn’t to show hate and make war with each other. We need to all come to an agreement so that everything is fair for everybody.
Homosexuals, in this case, are the people who keep losing. They deserve to have a win, they shouldn’t bow down to anybody, they shouldn’t keep fighting depression and anxiety, they shouldn’t fear people, and most importantly, they shouldn’t fear life…….
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