The title pretty much sums it up; these are the random musings of a free-spirited, modified, Gemini cub guy.
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Reblogged from queersecrets  42 notes
Posted 23, February, 2012
queersecrets: [image: college chapel with pride flag in front. text: “I spent most of my life hating myself for being attracted to women.  Now that I’m out, I sometimes still wonder if things never work out for me because I’m a lesbian.  Old thought patterns are hard to break. If there is a God, I think he hates me.”]

queersecrets:

[image: college chapel with pride flag in front. text: “I spent most of my life hating myself for being attracted to women. 

Now that I’m out, I sometimes still wonder if things never work out for me because I’m a lesbian. 

Old thought patterns are hard to break. If there is a God, I think he hates me.”]
Reblogged from tryingtomakefetchhappen  2,666 notes
Posted 10, February, 2012

Homosexuality is a sin. Homosexuals are doomed to spend eternity in hell. If they wanted to change, they could be healed of their evil ways. If they would turn away from temptation, they could be normal again. If only they would try and try harder, if it doesn’t work. These are all the things I said to my son Bobby when I found out he was gay. When he told me he was homosexual, my world fell apart. I did everything I could to cure him of his sickness.

8 months ago, my son, jumped off a bridge and killed himself. I deeply regret my lack of knowledge about gay and lesbian people. I see that everything I was taught and told was bigotry and dehumanizing slander. If I had investigated, beyond what I was told, if I had just, listened to my son, when he poured my heart out to me, I would not be standing here today with you, filled with regrets.

I believe that God was pleased with Bobby’s kind and loving spirit. In God’s eyes, kindness and love are what it’s all about. I didn’t know that each time that I echoed eternal damnation for gay people, each time I referred to Bobby as sick and perverted and a danger to our children, his self-esteem, his sense of worth, were being destroyed, and finally, his spirit broke beyond repair.

It was not God’s will that Bobby climbed over the side of a freeway overpass and jumped directly into the path of an 18-wheel truck which killed him instantly. Bobby’s death was the direct result of his parents’ ignorance and fear of the word ‘gay’.

He wanted to be a writer. His hopes and dreams should not have been taken from him, but they were. There are children, like Bobby, sitting in your congregations, unknown to you, they will be listening, as you echo “Amen”, and that will soon silence their prayers. Their prayers to God for understanding, and acceptance, and for your love. But your hatred, and fear, and ignorance of the word ‘gay’ will silence those prayers.

So, before you echo “Amen” in your home and place of worship - Think! Think and remember, a child is listening.

To all the Bobby’s and Jane’s out there, I say these words to you as I would with my own precious children. Please don’t give up hope on life, or yourselves. You’re very special to me. I’m working very hard to make this world a better and safer place for you to live in. Promise me you’ll keep trying. Bobby gave up on love, I hope you won’t. You are always in my thoughts.

~Mary Griffith

Please, if you are a LGBT youth, or are there to show your support for LGBT, REBLOG this post & check out/follow this blog. He is amazing!!


Reblogged from fuckyeahgaycouples  195 notes
Posted 3, February, 2012

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Laura’s Note: 

I highly suggest you watch this incredibly emotional collection of clips that briefly explore homosexuality as it has existed and been perceived in the 20th century and onward. 

This is actually a campaign to raise money for a documentary by Ryan James Yezak that comments on the idea of the second class citizen.

from his kickstarter page:

A second class citizen is defined as: a person whose rights and opportunities are treated as less important than those of other people in the same society. There are many areas in which gays, lesbians, & bisexuals do not have the same rights & opportunities as others in society. We must change this now.

I want to make a documentary that encompasses all areas in which we are discriminated against. The general population is not aware that discrimination against the gay community goes beyond marriage & bullying. There is far too much hate directed towards our community and I want to capture that hate on camera. In addition, I want to explore where this hate comes from, why it continues to exist, and what we must do to get rid of it. A better solution is needed because the solution we have right now isn’t working fast enough.

I am not a second class citizen. You are not a second class citizen. Right now, the laws in place (and lack thereof) say that we are. Let’s change that.

WHY I WANT TO MAKE THIS DOCUMENTARY:

The idea for this documentary was born when I first learned that California’s Proposition 8 had passed, defining marriage only between a man & woman in that state. I was angry & I wanted to do something about it. As time went by, I learned more & more about the inequalities that exist for gays, lesbians, & bisexuals in this country. I made a friend on YouTube who revealed to me that he would be expelled from his school if they found out he was gay. I did not believe him - in what kind of reality could something like that be true? It is true. Shortly after that, a string of natural disasters occurred & my boss asked me if I wanted to donate blood with her. I immediately got up to go with her & then stopped abruptly realizing that I couldn’t donate blood. She did not believe me, nor did she understand why. I felt like a different species. I did not feel one with the human race in that moment. That was the moment it had a direct effect on me & my rights - that is when I decided to make this documentary.

If you were touched at all by this idea, PLEASE PLEASE donate to back this project. I just pitched in $25 dollars, but they accept any donations. 

I truly believe this documentary has the potential to do a lot of good. If you agree, go here and donate.

the project’s facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/2ndClassCitizens

the kickstarter link:  http://kck.st/zUspXy

also- if you donate, let us know. 

we’ll figure out something fun as a thank you :3

Seriously, this gave me goosebumps.