Please, please, please, check out the It Gets Better campaign on youtube and donate to The Trevor Project. Every few dollars helps and we, as a country, need to work together to make the torture stop.
The "It Gets Better" Campaign is a series of videos made by prominent gay celebrities such as Tim Gunn (from...a lot of shows), Chris Colfer from Glee, Perez Hilton, among others. In addition, the youtube page that can be reached at this link has hundreds of videos from normal people just like you and me. They are all there to tell you that it gets better. They are all stories of normal LGBTQ teens and young adults who went through hell in order to finally be happy. Here is one of them. Please check them all out.
The Trevor Project is a lifeline set up to act as a support system for LGBTQ youth who may be thinking about killing or harming themselves. Trevor was a 13-year-old boy who, when rejected by his friends because of his sexuality, tried to take his own life. The Trevor Project's goal is to increase education about and tolerance of LGBTQ youth and decrease hatred and suicide. Here is their youtube page as well.
In the last few weeks, three LGBTQ youth have committed suicide. The hatred and the violence has got to stop. "Gay" is not a synonym for stupid. "Fag" and "faggot" are not appropriate things to call anyone, ever. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people are just that. People just like you. Calling someone a "fag" or saying something is "so gay" is akin to calling a black person a nigger. So give the terms the same weight.
These people are not any different from you or me. They deserve the same rights, the same level of acceptance and love and respect that straight people do. The cruelty and intolerance must stop. It's killing people.
You want to call yourself civilized? Act like it.
And if you are someone who believes gay people are evil, who opposes gay rights, who supports Don't Ask Don't Tell and opposes gay marriage, hear this: one day, you will get what you deserve. You are the evil ones. You are responsible for countless lives and the misery of countless Americans. You are a blight upon the Earth and should be ashamed.
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