“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
