Rainbow Pride

[Solora Goldsun]

Okay, this thread is for all LGBT's and their supporters. I was thinking about posting this thread for awhile. This is what finally prompted me: www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/09/us-pope-gay-idUSTRE8081RM20120109

That's right, people. The freaking POPE is telling the world that gay marriage is a threat to humanity. *sigh* This attitude is one of the many reasons I chose to not be Catholic...

This thread is for people to talk about what it is to be Lesbian, Gay, Bi, or Transsexual: what it means, coming-out-of-the-closet stories, revelations, experience with homophobia, etc.

I'll tell my little revelation story. A few times in Middle School, I noticed that I was developing crushes on, not only boys, but girls as well. At the time, I knew very little about homosexuality and bisexuality and, as a result, tried to beat the feelings down.

It worked for awhile, but there was always the sneaking suspicion that there was something wrong with me. I pushed the feeling aside, convincing myself that I was just dramatizing things.

Becoming a fangirl of shonen-ai and, later on, shojo-ai made me more open to the idea of homosexuality. I began watching different shows, reading stories, and opening my mind. Soon, the idea of two men or two women being together was a completely normal and beautiful thought.

My journey continued when I chose not to have my Confirmation and decided to stop being Catholic. Despite my mom's insistence that Catholics could believe in gay marriage, I still felt the ugliness of homophobia hidden between the pages. That, combined with other issues, caused me to stop answering to a named religion.

One day, completely randomly, when I was on a bus ride home, I came to the realization that I was Bi. I was half-asleep and sitting next to my two friends, one a guy and one a girl. It occurred to me that I had harbored serious crushes on both of them at one point. It was as if a curtain was being lifted. All of a sudden, I was Bi and I knew it.

Coming out to my parents was...okay. Basically, they dismissed me and said that I was too young to know if I'm Bi. I think they're not completely okay with the idea, because I asked Mom what she would say if I said I was straight. She said that she would have believed that. She also said that she'd understand it if I got a boyfriend. If I got a girlfriend, she'd think I'm with a good friend and under the illusion of romance.

But...at least they said they'd be okay with it...in the future... *shrugs* My friends were more understanding and supportive, so I mainly talk with them about stuff like this.

*glances at long post* I guess I can say more later. Let's hear from you guys!

[kruelonestar123]

boy solora, i gotta say, ya'll got some mighty courage postin this up. ya'll aint havin no idea how much respect i have for courageful folks like yourself. but as for me, i'm straight.i bin born and raised as a jehovahs witness(still am) but i have respect for ya'll. i even have gay friends myself. we sit around, go out watching movies together , other times we head over to them dinners and then we havin country fried steak with a side of sawmill gravy (that's just regular gravy with a flower base for you norther folks like myself)an i can kinda understand were ya'll are comin from. there have bin times were i have bin havin them other folks made fun of me, other times when im out there preachin here in texas and i had some folk's tryed to knock my block off if ya know what i mean. so i gotta say, ya'll are very lucky to be havin friends there that supportin ya. lucky for me i have my family to rely upon that. and once again i wanna thank ya ms.goldsun for postin somthin like this. knownin that there still some folks out there that dont jude other's for who they are ... that realy nice for ya'll. you little lady, have just earned some major good karma points with me

[Little]

@ Lone star- What part of Texas are you from?

[Aenrhien]

My parents are... less than accepting of the LGBT community as a whole, and the fact that I refuse to be a closed-minded jerk like they are. They've known since I was little that I've thought I should be a boy, but it's ignored unless they can throw it in each others faces while they're fighting and they probably think it's a phase I've grown out of, since I haven't mentioned it to them in years. And probably never will again, since I already know how they'll react if I do. There was no real revelation for me -- I went through eighteen years of my life knowing that I wasn't the little girl everyone thought I was, then I found out there was a name for what I was feeling and that was that.

The whole "predominantly attracted to men with an occasional attraction to women" has, so far, gone ignored or been explained away as hero worshipping my brother, not sure which. It'll open up its own can of worms in the future if I ever do tell them I never grew out of my "phase". >.>

[kruelonestar123]

@ little don't ya think that that's some here might call.... a "personal question?" .... but what i can tell ya'll is this, i am planin on dormin for college soon in new jersy. plannin on attending the"joe kubert school of cartoon and graphic arts"

[Little]

@ Lonestar- I didn't ask what city. I'm just curious because your typing dialect is odd.

[kruelonestar123]

prob, because at times i ... type the way i talk sometimes.... i can change it if ya like.

[Little]

No, it's alright. I've just never heard anyone talk or type like that.

[kruelonestar123]

nah, ya'll know what ... imma need to find a way how to stop typin like this.. for cryin out loud if imma go to art school for comic book art i recon i might as well.. stop my butchering of the english word hehhe. i mean i'm gonna need to be writin on them art tablets were i need to be writin them speach bubbles. and it ain't gonna work if im writtin like this lol!

[Mala Loba]

It saddens me that people are so concerned with how others live their lives. As I often say, I didn't leave the Catholic Church. It left me. And another thing that annoys me? People DO NOT CHOOSE IT. Case in point, my brother has autism and at best, probably the developmental age of a four or five year old, stuck in the body of a seventeen year old. He has no idea what being gay or straight means, nor could he ever comprhend it, but he displays an attraction to girls. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

As it is, I am still coming to terms with being gay. I mean, it's almost been a decade since I realized that I was this way, and I refused to believe it. I repeatedly told myself that I wasn't...yeah, that doesn't work. I can't exactly stop myself from feeling what I feel. I mean don't get me wrong, I still get attracted to the opposite sex, but it's not as often as I am attracted to the same sex.

And I come from quite frankly, a very tolerant and accepting family (but you've probably already guessed that). My dad's favorite aunt came out of the closet just recently, though he said that he always thought she probably was, even as a kid.

Oh, and another interesting tidbit for being born this way is that apparently, if you're a gay woman, you're more likely to have polycystic ovarian syndrome...which causes a rise in male hormones in the body. Guess what I have, eh?

[Solora Goldsun]

Thanks, Lonestar! That means a lot! ^_^ And, for the record, I LOVE Southern accents!

In my opinion, being gay, straight, or bi means nothing more than what your options are and who you can oggle at.

If you're straight, your options consist of people of the opposite gender who are straight or bi. You are free, however, to oggle at anyone of the opposite gender.

If you're gay, your options consist of people of the same gender who are gay or bi. You are, again, free to oggle at anyone of that gender.

If you're bi, your options consist of people of the opposite gender who are straight or bi AND people of the same gender who are gay or bi. And, you are free to oggle at ANYONE!

Have you noticed that people rarely think about bi people. A person is either gay or straight. If a guy who was with a girl all of a sudden kisses a boy, he has been "turned gay" rather than "always bi". How come people like me are so often overlooked? I remember hearing a group of people talking and one of them said that she didn't believe it was even possible to like both genders. I don't get it... *shrugs*

[kruelonestar123]

no,no,no, thank YOU solora for speakin your mind. lol. plus i woundent namely call if a "southern accent" , i'd like to think of it more as them folks like to call a " texan accent" since there spoken more around these here southern region, but southern ... i thank its more spoken around the eastern but american accents are spoken every other place. OH and i recon that the term you lookin for is "hopping the fence"

[Solora Goldsun]

Guys, I found this vid on Youtube. It's just...wow. Amazing. I started crying while watching it. Check it out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u62OtM_vt5k&feature=g-logo&context=G29a0f4aFOAAAAAAABAA

[EvoL]

In my last year of high school, I joined Rainbow Republic, an LGBT-straight alliance as a supporter to learn about LGBT and bullying and everything. Once I saw this article about a priest who supports gay marriages. Was a tiny article, but good news for gay communities. I even know a couple of gay friends as well and they were the first gay people I've ever met. Also, in one of our lunchtime meetings, I learnt that a verse in the Bible (I'm not Christian, but I know some parts of the Bible anyway) about being against homoexuality was a dud verse put in by some outspoken derp 200 years ago. And the Bible's older than that, duh!

[Solora Goldsun]

I wish my school had an LGBT-straight alliance club...