lgbtq
The letters LGBTQ are just another way of saying that Love is Love.
F*ck Coming out
Last year I came out as Bi-Sexual. It was something I had to do. I couldn't hide it any longer. If I did I honestly don't know what would've happened. But this isn't about that. This is about how how I came out. How I realized that I was Bi-sexual. But before I continue I want to emphasize to anyone who may be struggling with their own sexuality that you're not alone and you are most certainly enough. If anyone doesn't support you they don't deserve to be in your life. You deserve to be your most authentic self and nobody should take that away from you.
By Amanda Nicole4 years ago in Humans
Wrong
I, like many girls, had always wanted to try things with a girl. Never did i think i’d be in love with one though. I met her during basketball season, we were both on the same team, and the moment i saw her she caught my attention. She never knew till one day a girl, who i had told that i might have feeling for her, went to her and told her what i had said. At first of course she didn’t believe me but i was too shy to talk to her and tell her it was true. After basketball season was over we started talking a little more at school and we also got to know each other more. We later got really close and it all happened so fast. When we were both ready we decided to make it official and i think it was the best thing we could’ve done. I wasn’t ready to come out to my mother so i’d call my girlfriend “my friend”. My mom let me go to her house one day for a birthday part but she had never seen my girlfriend, and when she did her concern was “does she like girls?” i would always tell her no or that i didn’t know. One day she found a note one of my friends had written and it talked about me and my girlfriend being together and doing stuff and my mom did not take that very well. She started asking me if i was gay and asking a bunch of questions. She let it go though and i had asked her in the car did she think i would ever like girls and she said she didn’t think i would but she didn’t know. She had told me if i did she would support me she just didn’t know what to think at that moment. Soon after it was mother’s day and i had gotten my mother a rose and i bought an extra one. Of course she asked who it was for, and i had told her i got it for myself. It wasn’t for me, i gave it to my girlfriend the next day at school. When i got home from school and my mom got home from work i went outside and my mom im guessing went in my room and didn’t see the rose. As soon as i came back in she started questioning me about it asking who i gave it to and where it was. When i told her i gave it to “my friend” she got really mad and asked “why” and other things like “do you like her?” She asked to go through my phone but didn’t find anything about me and her. I just knew she didn’t trust me then. She had told me to stop talking to her and i didn’t. I continued texting her and talking to her at school like always. My mom and i didn’t talk about her from that point on, until, when i came back from a trip she said one of her coworkers daughters said that i told someone that i was gay and i had a girlfriend. Me and my girlfriend had been texting and i had my notifications on so my mom could see but we were talking as friends on purpose so she could see that’s what we were. She asked to see the messages and got mad that we were still talking when she told me to stop talking to her. I started crying and she asked why i was crying if me and her weren’t together. That’s when i told her that she liked me and i liked her. She was silent for a while and then she started telling me it wasn’t right for me to feel like that about another girl. She also started talking about God which made me mad because it was like she was bringing him up on purpose. We have never been a family that’s been all about God and now she wanted to tell me to read the bible and go to church, she even suggested a psychiatrist, she just wasn’t having it. She’d tell me about bible verses that talk about homosexuality being wrong and she’d send me articles about what would happen to homosexual people. I tried to help her see things from another point of view but she refused to hear any of it. She sat down with me and read something about God and what he said about homosexuality, and i honestly was not listening. She’s making me feel like i’m wrong for having feelings for someone, and for being in love. I am happy with my person and i wouldn’t wanna have it any other way.
By Valeria Gutierrez4 years ago in Humans
Adventures in Learning Spanish
As most a child does when working their way through the school system, I had a pick a second language to learn, if only to get a good enough grade to pass the class. Being from Texas, I chose Spanish as it was, and I suppose still very much is, a handy second language to have in one’s intellectual arsenal.
By UniformPrism The Author4 years ago in Humans
Inconsequential. Top Story - July 2022.
My wife loved plants. Love, even as powerful of a word as it is, cannot accurately describe how intensely she felt about them. The leaves, the petals, the roots … were all intertwined within her. She could never walk past without running her fingers across them, without whispering a word of affection. Sometimes I felt as if she loved them more than me, more than herself.
By Sara Larca4 years ago in Humans
Dad Know's Best.
Friday morning. Circa 1999. The West Midlands, England. Already the day was off to a slightly unusual start. Getting ready for school that day it was not my Mum’s light, melodic voice chivvying me along but my dad’s deep baritone telling me to step on it if we didn’t want to be late.
By Abi Alexander4 years ago in Humans
The Bill Criminalizing Medicine for Transgender Youth
On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the legislature of Alabama, in which the Republican party has a majority, approved a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to prescribe hormone blockers or hormone replacement therapy to transgender children. The sentence for this class C felony would be up to 10 years in prison.
By Francesca Rome-Marie4 years ago in Humans
For Dating Purposes: How to Spot a Lesbian
How to Spot a Lesbian Throughout my life I've been told that it is a lot harder to spot a lesbian than a gay man, that women find it easier to hide their sexual orientation, or even that lesbians don't exist (don't fall for that last one, kids).
By Andrea Lawrence4 years ago in Humans
I Once Thought Bill Maher Was Funny. Top Story - June 2022.
Back in the late 1990s when I was trying hard to work as an actor, the advice pretty universally seemed to be, “if you can do ANYTHING else, do it. Because this is hard. It often sucks. And few of us ever make any money.” They usually went on to say, “but if it’s all you can see yourself doing, keep going.”
By Martha Madrigal4 years ago in Humans
Gender Reveal Parties are So Problematic
In my twenty seven years, I've never once been invited to a gender reveal party, and I cannot tell you how happy I am about this. This type of party is controversial and problematic in more ways than one, and not only this, but they can be dangerous too! Of course, despite its creator despising the trend, the "gender reveal party" remains alive and popular among (mostly) Millennial parents. Truthfully, this trend needs to be killed.
By choreomanias4 years ago in Humans
