You’re clearly not LGBT. That’s fine. Let me explain…
I grew up gay in a fundamentalist Christian home. For a time Jerry Falwell was my pastor.
After I came out I tried for years to get my parents to truly accept me. But it didn’t happen. So I walked away. I let them be them, but it was too painful and damaging to be part of their world.
What I learned in that process is that it’s not my job to make people accept me. It’s not my fault if they don’t. That’s not my responsibility. It’s not my purpose.
If people can’t see me as their equal, that’s their fault, not mine. They’re the problem, not me.
Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance.
s3x_JAY / s3x_jay
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2023-05-03 23:38:22
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