Monday

I am gay!

Monday
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!


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