Gay Love: Same Love
Gay. A simple three letter word, yet it holds many contrasting connotations. It previously was used only as a term for describing homosexuals, but when did it become a term of negation? “Those shoes are gay.” “Your outfit is gay.” Gay transforming into a word with unfavorable connotation has desensitized the world to how the term impacts the feelings, self-confidence, and strength to love others for the homosexual people in the United States of America.
To begin with, the uttermost recurring reason for the non-acceptance of same-sex love is religion, specifically Christianity. Numerous people of Christian Faith are under the impression that being homosexual is against what the Bible says, is a sin, and is not how God created them. I once had a conversation with my grandmother; she is a Christian. She stated that “Gay people are only gay for the attention, they do not actually love one of the same gender as them.” Would someone truly want to be harassed, a minority, and even murdered for attention? My grandma’s response was, “Yeah, that’s why the gay pride parade happens. It is people that are lonely and don’t know how to get attention any other way.”
The gay pride parade is simply to celebrate, to unite them as one, and to help them fight through the harassment that they receive. It is no different than Americans going to
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They are born that way. There is no choice involved. No one wakes up one day and just decides “I’m going to be gay starting now.” Most homosexuals do not realize their homosexuality until they are older, and that is why many people believe they are choosing. But people are failing to realize that the reason a lot of gays do not realize this until later in life is because as a kid one is only shown relationships between men and women. No one speaks of gay couples and there are quite a lot of parents who do not educate their children that it is okay to be