I have just been watching the 'It gets better' advert when Google Chrome made:
http://www.youtube.com/user/googlechromeuk?v=CnFO8Hxp7CA&feature=pyv&ad=8147091432&kw=it%20gets%20better
In September 2010, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry to inspire hope for young people facing harassment. In response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, they wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better.
I just wanted to write about this as I know many gay people and I feel extremely passionate about this subject.
On Twitter and many other social networking sites there are groups which are made in order to make gay people feel unwanted. This happened back in the time that Hitler was at large. He killed many people which included gay people as he thought they were not normal. That attitude was considered normal back then but times have changed and people have become more accepting of gay people, after all they're normal.
I wish I could grab hold of homophobic people and make them watch what they're doing to people. A large majority of teenagers, have thought about or are killing themselves because they are so ashamed of who they are. Gay teenagers are 4 times more likely to commit suicide than their straight peers.
The internet is more than partly to blame for this, if you type into YouTube: 'I hate gay people' there are 5,320 videos of pure hatred to people who are born a certain way. 'Gay people are stupid' there are 4,990 videos. 'Gay people should die' there are 1,110 videos. Is this right? Why should they get away with it?
Homophobia is as bad as racism, as bad as sexism and as bad as killing someone. You may think that me saying 'homophobia is as bad as killing someone' is a little over the top. Re-read that and think about how much it hurts when you say 'Go die, you little gay.' to someone who is gay, inside you could be killing them bit by bit.
These Facebook and Twitter pages should not be allowed to be set up. We should all be putting more time and effort into making people feel welcome in the world not making them feel like they belong no where. I just want people to be able to come out and be proud of who they are because there are truly some beautiful people that cant be themselves.
Although there is so much hate among people there are also people who are proud of who there are. My friend loves who he is, he's not scared to admit it and I'm so proud of him.