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Originally posted by White
Man, I feel for you. I came out when I was 12 and even being closeted that long was torture. I couldn't imagine going through life stuck in there. Be brave and live your life how you wanna live it.
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Thank you, that really means a lot. It's so horrible and painful being stuck in here. I can't take it anymore.
It's just weird being a former pastor's kid and all. My entire family is bonafide Christian, and they are extremely ignorant and small-minded about things like this. The older they are - the worse they are. All these memories...the worse pain I've ever felt in my life was when I was sitting in the middle of this small youth gathering in the house of the youth pastor of my grandma's church in Florida.
The evening was okay until she brought the inevitable "those gays!" discussion. I had to sit there for what felt like hours listening to people
my age saying that they thought gay people were disgusting immoral freaks, for sitting on park benches and making out and other stereotypes like that. The guys were quick to say lesbians were hot, but that gay guys are gross. I curled up into a ball on the sofa in the opposite corner and said nothing.
The youth pastor looked over at me and said wholeheartedly, "Are you alright? You can leave if it's too much."
I said I was fine.
You don't really
know what it feels like to be a minority until you experience the pain that goes with it firsthand.