I am gay!

by: DANIEL SCOGIN, (www.chicagonow.com)

 

 

I am gay

I am not flamboyant

I do not want to be a woman

I am gay

I am not a deviate or pervert

I do not have any diseases

I am gay

I love one man

I sleep with one man

I am gay

I am not a pedophile

I do not harm anyone

I am gay

I pay taxes

I contribute to my community

I am gay

I don't hate 

I am hated

I am gay

I love our differences and realize it's these differences that make us wonderful and amazing.

I am hoping that one day you will realize this too

The problem is that there is a large percentage of people who still believe homosexuality is a choice; such as being a skinhead or Holocaust denier (which a blogger grouped homosexuals with to make a very horrifying and ill-stated point). Why would any person choose to be hated, denied basic civil rights and compared to such things? 

 

And to those people believing my being gay is a choice - a question: When did you decide you were straight?  Which day was it that you woke up and thought to yourself, "I am going to be straight"?  Because as far back as I can remember I never made a choice and never wanted to live my life being judged and hated for one aspect of it.

I am gay

I am not defined by this

I define me!