It's not an act of courage if you create the situation for yourself
that makes no sense. maybe if he set it up at an LGBT convention or something. But he did it in front of a class with other kids who probably weren't going to be okay with him coming out.
hell, just coming out in front of people like you, who will devalue what he did, is courageous.
I'm 20, almost 21. I think I know where my life is going. No one and no thing is worth getting old
I'm sorry that my REVOLUTIONARY way of thinking is a bit much for the gays here. Keep coming out if it makes you feel better, but never seek approval from the heterosexuals. They are the enemy.
I agree with that last part though
Let's declare war on them and take over this world
I'm 20, almost 21. I think I know where my life is going. No one and no thing is worth getting old
I'm sorry that my REVOLUTIONARY way of thinking is a bit much for the gays here. Keep coming out if it makes you feel better, but never seek approval from the heterosexuals. They are the enemy.
Coming out is the MOST important political action any gay man can ever take in their life, so y'all need to stop this "Oh I'm edgy, look at me criticizing this other gay man! See, I'm not like those OTHER attention-seeking gays, validate me!" mess. It makes you look tacky, jealous, and ignorant of what is important in this world and in our movement.
"Coming out" is nothing more than a silly social construct that further marginalizes, pressures, singles out & DIFFERENTIATES gay people.
I don't need to "come out". I should just be able to be.
As I said, I respect that he was preaching acceptance, I just don't believe based on his speech & the scenario in which he chose to do this, that his intentions were anything more than a "remember this, bitches". If anything, that is tacky, tbh.
I'm 20, almost 21. I think I know where my life is going. No one and no thing is worth getting old
I'm sorry that my REVOLUTIONARY way of thinking is a bit much for the gays here. Keep coming out if it makes you feel better, but never seek approval from the heterosexuals. They are the enemy.
@ all the people in here hating on him. I know this forum is filled with a bunch of self hating in the closet teen gays but lord that doesn't mean that you have to hate on people that are out and happy. I hate it when people try to put other people down for coming out and say it's not a big deal or nobody cares. Being gay still is a big deal in 2014 and we need to just accept that. If a person feels more comfortable letting everyone know that they are gay because they feel they were hiding or lying to people that they care about, and this makes them feel free, then so be it. Go take your negativity elsewhere. There's nothing wrong or attention seeking about wanting to live your life openly as who you really are. I also can't help but think that a lot of gays that put down other gays that are very open and proud only do so because they want acceptance from the straight community which for some unknown reason is thought of as the holy grail and the better community. Here's some advice: when you let go of all your negativity and start living your life with a positive outlook, you may find that you are much happier then you were before.
In some (more like many) cases, what you said causes disapointment, shock, heart attacks, violance, and maybe sometimes even death.
I dunno, but i think you have just been lucky with everyone who now knows you are gay.
Oh my god I'm so getting warned for what I'm gonna say next
Unfortunately, on the quest for equal rights, people are hurt and sometimes killed. It sucks, but it's unfortunately the way it goes. We should be keeping it minimal, but we're ignorant if we believe we can achieve our goals and reach the promised land without some of our brothers falling around us.
Do you see other invisible minorities "coming out"? Do you see Christians coming out? Muslims? Athiests? Hardly. They've been taught that they don't need to JUSTIFY their lives and the way they lead them.
trans* people have the idea correct, they'll usually just tell a few people who might give a ****, and then they just transition and say **** you to the rest of the world. Imagine if gay men and lesbians did the same thing!
right? Not only is he saying he will off himself in 4 years, but he is bumping a groups of people into categories and basically letting me know that my parents, my best friends and basically 80% of the people I care about are 'the enemy'
@ all the people in here hating on him. I know this forum is filled with a bunch of self hating in the closet teen gays but lord that doesn't mean that you have to hate on people that are out and happy. I hate it when people try to put other people down for coming out and say it's not a big deal or nobody cares. Being gay still is a big deal in 2014 and we need to just accept that. If a person feels more comfortable letting everyone know that they are gay because they feel they were hiding or lying to people that they care about, and this makes them feel free, then so be it. Go take your negativity elsewhere. There's nothing wrong or attention seeking about wanting to live your life openly as who you really are. I also can't help but think that a lot of gays that put down other gays that are very open and proud only do so because they want acceptance from the straight community which for some unknown reason is thought of as the holy grail and the better community. Here's some advice: when you let go of all your negativity and start living your life with a positive outlook, you may find that you are much happier then you were before.
that makes no sense. maybe if he set it up at an LGBT convention or something. But he did it in front of a class with other kids who probably weren't going to be okay with him coming out.
hell, just coming out in front of people like you, who will devalue what he did, is courageous.
I'm not saying that coming out isn't brave, but he choose to do it at that moment. It's not like he ran into a fire to save children. He created the situation himself, that was in many ways unnecessary and the wrong time and place, and we should give him kudos?
Bring a dude to Christmas dinner without telling your parents!
Make out with a hot doctor on the subway!
Normalize it! Don't blend in, but don't grant heterosexuals the satisfaction of BEGGING for their approval through coming out, because that's the subtext of every coming out gesture.
"Normalizing" doesn't just happen, not when gays around the world are getting beat up and killed. You're ridiculous and **** you.
Normalize it! Don't blend in, but don't grant heterosexuals the satisfaction of BEGGING for their approval through coming out, because that's the subtext of every coming out gesture.
I agree with this. Making it a big dramatic sceptical is so unnecessary. My sister never came to me and said 'bro I'm straight'
"Normalizing" doesn't just happen, not when gays around the world are getting beat up and killed. You're ridiculous and **** you.
How would you recommend going about normalization of homosexuality?
Tell me!
Do you recommend we keep doing pride parades? In which every sexual minority comes out and celebrates, but then we all just end up firing lube-filled water guns at each other and holding our boyfriends on leashes?
Do you recommend we continue to be silent peaceful protestors? Using Twitter and tumblr to our advantage and try to play to intellect?
Or do we get militant up in this mother ****er?
I've always been a bit more Malcolm X than most, but I didn't realize there were so many people who were fine with the status quo.
and take over this world 
