My Valentine is 1400 miles away…

but it’s okay. I saw him this weekend and we had the perfect celebration. But I still miss him terribly :/

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I guess you could say I’m happy :)

I had a dream about puppies.

Pretty sure as far as dreams go they don’t come better than that.

11 DAYS TIL I GET TO SEE HIM

I fucking hate my extended family.

Stop being so fucking hateful and rude. Just because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you get to be the fucking judge of the world. Stop hating on people being gay. All humans are humans. It’s as fucking simple as that.

I’m going to move to Colorado and adopt a new family.

You all can go fuck yourselves.

The Hope we Need: Why All Humans Should be Treated as Such

This is a paper I wrote for my history class about the LGBT movement and Human Rights. I enjoyed writing it a lot. Read if you like :)

On the morning of June 28, 1969, a now forty-three year-long fight began: the fight for the right to be treated as a human. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement (or, LGBT, as it will be referred to henceforth), is one that has been struggling to make progress since the beginning of time, and one that has only fairly recently become considerably mainstream.

The LGBT movement has gained significant momentum as the push towards human rights in all aspects has been fast-tracked thanks to atrocities like those committed in Darfur and China, to name a few. The Human Rights issue is one that extends beyond gay rights and advocates the outlandish notion that all humans should be treated as such.

On March 10, 1978, Harvey Milk gave what would be later known as the Hope Speech which can be best summed up in on sentence: “You can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living,” (Harvey Milk). This recognition of hope is what humans use to justify living; it is when we lose hope that we see the self-termination of lives of so many lost individuals.

What determines whether one has hope or not is subjective. For so many, it’s the hope of what’s to come – the unknown that encourages us to move forward. For those who identify themselves as being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender, that hope is often that coming out of the closet will not change others’ opinions of them; the hope is that they will still be treated as a human.

For those who are lucky enough to not have to worry about whether this hope exists or not, the question of whether life is worth living is most often based on whether there is any propensity for a better tomorrow. This question is one that everyone faces at some point or another, and what it comes down to is if the entrenched ideals of society will ever change.

One of these entrenched ideals – which many will argue is a beneficial one – is that the military is the basis of our hope for a safe tomorrow. Whether one is anti- or pro-war, the fact remains that the military is currently our only method of national security.

The issue of gays being allowed in the military is one that is highly prevalent in today’s society. If the belief that homosexuals should not be allowed in is one that becomes widely accepted, one major question must be raised: If the hope of our nation is dependent on those willing to fight to protect our rights, how can we justify taking away the rights of those who volunteered to defend ours?

Wil Anderson said it best when he said, “If you’re willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you.” While perhaps a bit vulgar, it shows the hypocrisy that is inevitable when we ask someone to save our lives but to refrain from having sex with whomever they so desire.

A photo illustration by Derius Westly shows soldiers in uniform, one with a censor bar over his mouth. All of the men in the picture are identical with the exception of that one black bar. Each one of these soldiers is a human – and as such, they should all be treated equally. The LGBT movement gets right down to the heart of the Human Rights issue – who should be allowed to be treated as a human, and who should be treated as “the other”?

The answer is simply, “No one.” Lily Allen, an English singer/songwriter wrote a song criticizing those who “Say it’s not okay to be gay,” (Lily Allen, F*** You). She asks those who are anti-LGBT, “Do you really enjoy living a life that’s so hateful?” and continues on to tell them that “There’s a hole where your soul should be.” Allen classifies the anti-LGBT mindset as being medieval and argues that this thinking is purely and simply evil.

In 1969, this medieval thinking was actively and aggressively criticized for the first time. In 1978, Harvey Milk argued that the only way for those on the receiving end of this thinking to have any hope is if society gives them reason to have it. In 2009, Lily Allen illustrated the hope that so many are trying to give: that there are in fact those who are not homosexual, bisexual, or transgender, who support the movement and believe that every human should be treated as such.

“You can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.”

Yeah. He was blowing kisses to me. 

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