Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Faggot!

My son has been lucky!
He has not encountered a whole lot of hate...yet.
I hope he never does.
I had begun to think the world was changing, we were advancing.
Although, we have changed somewhat, it wasn't as I thought.
A young gay boy cam inot our lives in this past year, he is like family here.
Reality struck for me when he would phone from his hometown and we could hear words like faggot, cocksucker and other derragatory comments being yelled in the background.
I was also very surprised when he told me that he is not allowed to change in the boys locker room at school because the "straight" boys feel uncomfortable.
Does this sound like we have progressed?
How would you feel if this were your child?

2 comments:

  1. Hey Lori, It's Alex. OMG that is horrible. I know, some times it feels like we have come so far and other times it feels like we have achieved very little. I also just try to imagine if I had been born in the 30's or 40, how hard it would have been. While my being gay has not been easy, even now in 2009, (it's hard to believe people are planning on going to Mars, but equality still is something some people have to fight for). I love your blog. Keep up the great work. I check it every day for updates.

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