“There are as many ways to live in this world as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look.” -Harriet the Spy
My name is Olivia Hawks, and I love gay men. Growing up I did not have a doting dad. He was critical of the way I looked and didn’t say the nice things little girls like to hear. As a result I became an extremely insecure young lady with no need for boys, they only hurt feelings.
Once in college I found myself surrounded by many generous, sweet and loving boys. I became what is known as a Fag Hag. People laughed at me or felt bad for me because I hung out with gay men. “…can’t get a real boyfriend,” they’d say. With “my gays,” compliments were plentiful. Fun was had. They were exactly what I needed. Gay guys make the best friends.
I am politically, morally, and socially very conservative. However I’m all for gay rights. One of my favorite movie lines comes from “Saved”. “Why would God make us so different if He wanted us to be the same?” Many Christians believe being gay is a sin. There are much worse sins being committed in their very own households. I dare you “…who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Just recently a devout Christian boy was “outed” by his roommate. He felt such shame that he took his own life.
His name was Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, who was secretly taped allegedly having sex with another male. “Authorities say Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, set up a camera in their room and remotely turned it on without Clementi’s knowledge. He also tried to stream it live on the Internet,” according to People.com.
“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay,” Ravi wrote on his Twitter page, Sept. 19.
Three days later Tyler wrote on his Facebook wall, “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”
“Ravi and another student, Molly Wei, 18, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy after police learned the camera had been placed in the room without Clementi’s permission, Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan says. If convicted, they face up to five years in prison for the charges.
‘If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the University’s standards of decency and humanity,’ Rutgers President Richard McCormick said in a statement. ‘Our university community feels the pain of his loss, and I know there is anger and outrage about these events’,” reports People.com.
I went to the Facebook page “In Honor of Tyler Climenti” and in the “Info” was this statement:
“In Honor of Tyler Clementi all comments that seek to harass his tormentors, his family, or his memory will be removed from this page; all hate speech or comments that fail to respect the grieving communities will be removed from this page. This page will only be published and open for comments on a random basis, as a way to limit the hate-speech, and cruel, vulgar abuse that has swarmed it.”
On the “Tyler Clementi Memorial” Facebook page people have already uploaded pornographic and hateful photographs, too offensive for me to post.
Really?
“This needs to be a wake up call to everyone that teenage bullying and teasing is an epidemic in this country, and the death rate is climbing,” says Ellen DeGeneres, openly gay talk show host. “We have an obligation to change this.”
There is too much evil in the world.
Take a step back and look at what you stand for.
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