(Community Matters) a moving story about a teen coming out to his mom – it could have gone the other way. Too many other kids have chosen suicide instead.
I have been so scared of them finding out that I’m gay because I know that they would hate me and would want me out of their life and at the same time I can’t keep this secret anymore because it is not something I asked for, never in a million years would I ask to be gay in a town like this where everybody would hate me. And anyways I can’t keep this secret anymore because I’m about to do something crazy like run away or hurt myself or something. I just want to be dead sometimes. story
I still remember when two family members told us we couldn’t encroach on their religious beliefs which held that we lived in sin. Yeah, and this sort of justification was once used to support slavery, to support discrimination against anyone who wasn’t white, who wasn’t male, even bi-racial couples.
this is the original post referred to in the story – I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay.
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