As you may or may not have heard, same-sex marriage has just been legalised in the United States of America. This means everyone can get married, despite their gender or sexuality.
People will probably think that it's 'no big deal', when actually it is a BIG deal. For centuries, homosexual people had to hide their true feelings so they weren't discriminated against. Just think how many men were forced to marry a woman they didn't have feelings for in order to hide who they were? And vice versa.
It's so sad to think that, for such a long period of time, if a man so much as held hands with another man, they were discriminated against or, in the worst cases, killed.
Today is a big deal because the LGBQT community can now feel accepted as a society.
If you are gay, lesbian or a bisexual, that's fine and has always has been, it's just that there's too many people who find it difficult to accept, which astonishes me. It makes me sick how a person can't accept that two people of the same sex love each other.
Homophobia has always been a massive problem in this world but I really hope that, today, those people will realise how little their opinions matter. So you're against a man being with another man? That doesn't matter, they are still going to be together. Homophobic people can try and stop them from being together, but they will never succeed.
I remember, growing up, I never had a problem with a man loving another man or a woman loving another woman. When I was 8, the popular sci-fi show, Doctor Who, returned and in the last episode, (*spoiler alert for series 1 episode 13*), one of The Doctor's companions, Captain Jack Harkness, is about to leave to try and fight off some Daleks. Before he leaves, he says goodbye by kissing The Doctor on the cheek. Like I said, at the time I was 8 and I didn't have a problem with it. Honestly. I didn't question it. I remember thinking 'aw that's sweet, he's saying goodbye to The Doctor by kissing him'. And in a film called St Trinian's, which was released when I was 10, there were some references to being gay and, at the time I didn't know what that word meant, but I remember my mum explaining it to me and I was 100% okay with it. I have always accepted people's differences. I never thought twice about it so when I learnt that there were (and still are, unfortunately) people who weren't accepting of homosexuality, I was taken aback. How could you not be accepting of two people's love for each other?! If you can accept a man and a woman being together, you can accept two people of the same sex being together.
I also hate how it's called 'homophobia'. Phobia means to have a fear of something but, to be honest, saying that you have homophobia doesn't mean you have a fear but you're just being a judgemental a***hole. You can't be afraid of two people of the same sex being together. It's irrational.
I think the world would be a much more positive place if there were less homophobic people in the world. Actually, it would be a lot better if those people didn't exist at all.
I am so proud of America for legalising same sex marriage. Today is a happy day and we should all be celebrating.
Love Wins.
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