They Hate Me 'Cause I'm Fabulous

"It's because I'm gay," he says with a bitter heat in his eyes. Often this comment is met by confused or blank stares--and ever the rare occasion a sneering rebuttal enforces the statement. The words burn a hate deeper within the defensive homosexual. The accusation keeps coming and coming, with or without reenforcement to the point of when someone doesn't like how his art appears, or the way his voice sounds when he sings, he knows it's because he's gay; not because he sucks at art, or because he can't carry a tune to save his life, but because he likes boys.

This.

Is.

False.

The general society stereotypes and some of the people stereotyping are not going to be pleasant about it. These troubled souls will dislike anything and everything about another person based on something like another's sexuality. However, these stereotyping, ignorant, and close-minded people should not give one the right to jump to conclusions anytime someone else makes an unintentionally harsh joke or a criticism that was meant to be constructive. This constant assumption will create a defensive, cynical person out of anyone, and ever so often, stroke his or her ego into jutting itself above the clouds.

While these offended souls regard everyone as a homophobic or a person put into their lives as misery-causing obstacles, the homophobic-phobics grow to become an almost pretentious kind of sorts; in his or her eyes, the gay is better than his or her opponent--the judgemental homophobic--in order for the gay to defend themselves from hurtful comments. In turn, the gay believes every single person is an ignoramus homophobic. However, this is the start of the gay beginning to lose his or her little heart's true happiness with him or herself for the fearful certainty of how the entire world views him or her--through a discriminating gaze.

In reality, this fear is biased--one will not always smile at another with a funny look in one's eye because the other is, quote on quote, "gay", and one finds this attribute a repulsive quality, or to bring judgement upon another's head, but to only share a bit of gaiety of one's own heart. There are many people out there who support gays--for instance, Fort Zumwalt East is a wonderful example of this support. On Monday, February 6 of 2012, a group of protesters were supposed to show up, shouting discriminants about homosexuals and how gay is not a term in God's dictionary. The protesters were nowhere to be seen, however, when the uproar this plausible event caused was evident, student and relatives and friends of students, and gays from the gay community all standing along the school's sidewalk, protesting the the protesters, a fervent support in pro-gay assembly's eyes. The proof is here, with a video of all the supporters in their rainbow glory.

That is just one example of acceptance--love is love, and more people know this than one might think. Shrug one's shoulders, and let the chips rain down from one's shoulders to see that no, the reason is not because one is gay that he or she is disliked. The reason may only be that one is willing to look beyond one's own stereotyping gaze and see a friendly face before him or her.