Come OUT?

Why is it that so many young LGBT people are dying? Well is it the lack of acceptance? Or maybe bullying is the answer? I mean people are very cruel these days, hell even within the community towards one another. I mean Damn I am 35 and I've been a target plenty of times but that's usually immature exs or label whores telling me how I am supposed to act. But again my age should exclude me from those that have recently taken their lives. Or does it? It really doesn't matter the cause it just alarms me that more people aren't concerned or compassionate about this epidemic. This treating an entire society of people like animals without rights that should belong to every human being. Well this is the world of wars, slavery, rape, genocide and oppression.

But babies are dying, children that have barely lived. The future of our world could have been saved or made better in whole or part by their future contributions. If it were straight white athletic types I know that certain members in society would be up in arms by these senseless loses. Yet it's just a bunch of "queers and faggots" as my friend Stone had put it. Not like he was putting down these members of our family but as a way he described the looking away that those against US are doing.

Now it's 10/11/2010 and it's the National Day of coming out, but would you if you were a young person in rural Alabama or Montana? Hell even in Philadelphia, Greensboro or Chicago if you knew that you wouldn't be treated like you belong to this country any more? I mean the basic rights that many get daily are taken away from those in the LGBT community, people don't always allow us basic freedoms. The government won't even allow us the openly be gay and serve our country or marry the love of our lives. How could we expect things to change when those outside of us haven't even been willing to accept us as humans just as they are? Steps need to be made to force people to understand that a change needs to come from outside in. Celebrities spoke out the suicides yet haven't stepped out of their closets. Preacher's preach hatred about us yet lay in bed secretly with someone of the same sex. Out from their closets come those wronged lovers however when the time was right they never spoke up or stepped out!

In a world of parents who have children yet to be determined what their future choice in mates may be. Maybe it would be best if for once they considered what if they just happened to be gay. With all of the pride and love they have for their child wondering if they'd still show that if they happened to be gay and chose to end their lives. I'd want my child alive. Maybe if there was a National Day to be as loving as Jesus. Or a National Day of no HATE. Maybe people could learn one day to accept everyone but that utopia is far from sight.

So for today I just hope that someone coming out could save another from closing up and committing suicide. From outside in we could use all the help we can get.