I, Too, Have A Dream

My head is about to explode.

We have countries that are trying to legalize murder of LGBT people.

There are places where you can get arrested for getting married if you're gay.

Kids are pushing other kids down the stairs because that kid is gay, or assumed to be gay, or acts gay.

Lawyers in California say there is no more LGBT discrimination because the homos are on TV and in the movies.

At every turn, everywhere you go, we are being told being gay is wrong, bad, sick, less than other people, and I wonder, When does it end.

I wait for someone to show me one person who was indoctrinated into the gay "lifestyle"; one child made gay because he or she read about it in school; one child who switched orientation because they saw something on TV.

I wish someone would explain to me how my being gay, my wanting the same things the straight community wants, is detrimental to this country.

I long for one shred of evidence that a gay marriage performed anywhere in the world has ruined a heterosexual marriage.

I hope for the day that people will open their eyes and see that pedophiles are mostly straight men, and stopping laying that crime at the feet of the gay community.

I pray, for once, someone would stop using being gay as a joke; using bashing as a cartoon; using homosexuality as a punch line, or punching bag.

I dream of a day where fear isn't used to enact legislation, but simple thought is the impetus for change.

I yearn for a time when self-loathing gay men and women don't use their hatred of themselves to keep the LGBT community down.

I wish, I long, I hope, I dream, I yearn.

I wait.