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I got hypnotized by religious shows one after another after another on t.v. by heterosexual preachers who’s only mention of a “homosexual” was one of a person who needed serious changing to be accepted by God. I am glad the young people of today have more choices and more options to feeling good about themselves than the terrible homophobia my small town put on me. I know it is still hard for a person who is attracted to their own sex to find a feeling of comfort in today’s world. I hate being thrown into a “gay” corner of the world like a bunch of cattle being herded away from the main trail.

No I won’t go over to my assigned back seat on the bus to make the heterosexual people more comfortable with who I am. I can sit up in the front of the bus just like they can. I can take my place on this earth and demand all the respect and rights that “they” can. I can pray to my God and ask for all the love and success I want in this world just like they can and even get an answer YES, you can have it all too.

I no longer want to waste another breath of my life trying to fit in where I don’t belong. You can take all the jobs, people, groups, religions, and show business expressions of heterosexuality being the number one way to be and throw them all in the ocean for all I care. I have got to be me and I will be me and if it takes me to write essays like this 100 times a day to convince myself I am ok just the way I am, I will. Hopefully some other lonely soul out there can turn into their spirit and know without any approval from another source, that they too are ok just the way they are and there is a reason for being alive on this planet at this time.

Be free, be yourself, forget the narrow mindedness of others, and seek to be like the wind, passing through the trees, not needing to cling, but just passing by-be free! Love from your lesbian sister, Breeze.

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# Nikky 2010-02-01 23:10
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Nikky said,

August 29, 2008 at 2:25 am

I’m glad I happened upon this. I am happy to hear that you have come to the conclusion that you ARE wonderful just as you are, even if this realization was late in coming. I’m glad to hear that you are willing to do whatever is necessary to slough off that weighted dead skin, that expectation that being straight is normal and therefore “good”. Be yourself. You deserve it.
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# starlove 2010-02-01 23:11
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starlove said,

December 29, 2008 at 10:41 am

You are the best.. You have managed to be YOURSELF.
As for me, I’m married and stuck in a stupid relationship that I disliked but I have not found the courage to stand up like you do.
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