Dive into my mind, don't drown.

2:11 AM

My mother said, "I'd love to have a male gay best friend, I've always wanted one!"

My father said "we'll support you no matter what. Whether you choose to love a woman or a man"

It's sad. That those are the only good things I remember they've said about the LGBT+ community.

Yet it's funny at the same time. Why?

Because they said those things yet, when a gay wedding was shown on TV, my father said "Gays should live on another planet."

And my mother agreed.

Makes me question, whether those words of support and encouragement you said were just words, were just said for fun, were just said because they could be or because it felt right in the moment, or maybe because you thought that if you said it, it wouldn't happen.

My mother said," men shouldn't wear makeup."

I asked, "why not? "

She said something along the lines of," makeup is for women" or, "it doesn't suit them" and "I don't like it"

So I showed her videos of men wearing makeup, I showed her pictures of men wearing "women's clothes".

She replied to that with the words, "ew, no"

Together they also agreed that when a transgender women came into a wedding shop on TV as she was getting married that "transgender men are still women, and transgender women are still men.". They also refused to call them by the pronouns they were comfortable with.

Now I'm not trying to paint my parents into a bad picture here, that not what I'm doing at all, though it might seem like it. What I'm trying to do is show that these words that have no impact on you, and have just slipped out of your mouth, these words have stayed with me because they've had an impact on me.

I get that my parents weren't raised in the same generation I was, otherwise their reactions, their opinions and their beliefs just might be different. I get that their parents taught them differently, but I think it's time that they tried to learn and understand our generation because times are changing and they've been changing for quite a while now. I think if they were to try and understand and do some research they just might rethink their choice.

You see their knowledge of this subject is little to none, and because of that, I think they hate it or find it disgusting because they just don't understand.

Who I love and who I'm attracted to doesn't affect them, yet they feel the need to act as if it does. People like them, abuse us physically, verbally and mentally and then they decide to play the role of the victim and we get punished for their wrongdoings.

Love is love. Just tell me, what's so wrong with that? Please.

Love in the lgbt+ community is so much stronger than their type of love. Love in the lgbt+ community is so much more powerful than their type of love. Now let me explain why, they have been through battles of crowds shouting, screaming, yelling at them that their love is wrong, that their love is unacceptable.

Our love is not a choice. We cannot simply pick and chose who we want to love. But let me ask if it was a choice, answer me who would go through bullying and abuse? who would go through having their parents and friends abandon them and neglect them? who would go through suicide because of all of this that has affected them just to choose who they love?

They wouldn't. But because they can't choose, we're forced to hide who we are and who we love because people refuse to accept us, they refuse to accept our love. Isn't all love just as precious as each other because of the differences in some way?

I'd like to ask them to do their research, but I'm not bold enough to do that. Maybe one day I will, and even if after that, if they do understand and yet they still choose to be unaccepting. Then I guess that's okay.

Because they tried right? They put in the effort?

All I ask of them is, if you are going to support me but aren't going to support others like me, then I'd rather not have your support.

They don't like it when people come and preach their religion to them and their beliefs, so please don't come and preach to me about your opinions and beliefs and what you think is wrong about my love.

-Owl.