= My Daughter The Lesbian: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Homophobic Rage Over Nothing

                                                     Chastity Bono
                                                        Chaz Bono

Apparently, transgenders are not allowed to dance in public.  I don't remember that from Footloose, do you?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are Day!



The enthusiasm for change and support is growing, quieting the opposition, encouraging the masses, and in the headlines every day.  I was a small child back in the sixties to understand it fully, but my father read five newspapers each day and watched the news faithfully, so I knew there was an excitement in the air surrounding Civil Rights of which today's long awaited and hard won growing acceptance of the gay community is reminiscent.  

I have always felt that the closet must be a dark and scary place in which to spend any time at all, let alone live one's entire life, so as a mom and a friend, I am thrilled that people I love and admire are gaining ground our ancestors could not have imagined.  The next logical step is upon us, and while I know it is easy for an onlooker to claim something is necessary and needs to be done, you know I am right when I say it is time to come out.  It is time to stop caring what people think about you because if they think you do not deserve their respect because of who you are, they do not deserve your respect because of who they are.  

Reading the headlines, there are obviously more gays than even science has even contemplated and, after all, it is science, isn't it?  It has always been science and society has allowed people to think there was something wrong with them because they are gay.  It is time to show society the strength in numbers that will surely surprise us all.  Everybody knows at least one someone who is gay and probably several somebodies who are, but are still in denial, so do the math.  That's right, billions.  

Just because you grew up believing there was something wrong with you doesn't make it so and now that you see that things we grew up believing were myths, admit that there is no Santa Clause, the world is not flat, and there is nothing wrong with you.  Being gay is no different than being left handed or having green eyes.  Do not take it personally, but as weird as you believed yourself to be because you listened to others, you are just one more boring scientific fact.  Get over it.  Now make people listen to you.  Come out.  Let's start encouraging a massive escape from the closet.  Let us start Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are Day!  Let's pick a day and pass it on. 

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