I have had to deal with prejudice and hate for almost 10 years now for being an ally, and the last 5 were unspeakably awful. It’s like everywhere you go, you show that badge, someone’s going to hit you, lecture you or threaten to kill you. Their entire attitude changes from “friendly uncle/grandfather” to “the mother from Carrie” as soon as you reveal that you’re compassionate. You keep doing it because it is right, it is just, it is what you believe God is telling you to do, and yet everywhere you turn, you get your face beaten in. You cling to media with LGBTQ+ characters like a life raft in a maelstrom, and you keep getting so buffeted by painful, painful strikes that you get addicted to what gives you endorphins of pleasure just to keep yourself from being suicidal or letting go. It hurts and I don’t know why they refuse to see the pain I’m in or the pain the whole community is in because of their genocidal attitude.
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