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Regarding my views on the LGBT community
11 years ago
What Nai Has To Get Out Of Her Thoughts..
So Lately It has come to my attention that there has been some confusion regarding my views on gay rights and the LGBT community. I would like to take the time to type up another journal to clear some things up.
I am a supporter of the LGBT community, I am a supporter of Gay Rights. I am in no way homophobic, or any variation of the sort.
Some of you may be wondering why i am posting this, it is regarding a mistake that i had made a couple of years ago.
About 4 years ago, i posted a really nasty shout it out, which is in point the central cause of the confusion. It was followed by a journal explaining my views and how i felt at the time, and I had stated that i had considered myself homophobic, as well as making a couple of extremely inappropriate racial comments and opinions.
With a heavy heart, i strongly regret everything that i said, and everything that i did involving that stupid submission that i posted. I was young, and didnt have a full understanding of how amazing the community really is. I was raised in an extremely conservative home, where the mention of anything homosexual or out of the norm resulted in punishment. My views were brought up to me in a negative way, and once i was exposed to the gay community, i realized that everything that i was taught, everything that my parents had told me was wrong. And how they were able to make me honestly believe and think the way they did is absolutely disgusting. It was actually thanks to the furry fandom, that i was able to learn more about the gay community, and realize that what i was doing wasnt right at all. I realize what i had done is vile, and i feel disgusting about it every single time that i hear or see the word 'homophobic'. If i had any way of going back, i would have never made myself create that submission, or all of the hurtful things that came along with it.
It is not in my intention in the slightest to offend anyone. And i would just like to again sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart if i have personally upset or hurt you guys. Every single one of you are amazing, and incredible people, who have been nothing but a positive influence on my life. And i am so grateful that i found you guys when i did.
The post has long been taken down, even though it has been circulating around on other sites. I just want you guys to know that what is said on that submission, is not how i feel today, or have felt for a very long time.
I am a supporter of the LGBT community, I am a supporter of Gay Rights. I am in no way homophobic, or any variation of the sort.
Some of you may be wondering why i am posting this, it is regarding a mistake that i had made a couple of years ago.
About 4 years ago, i posted a really nasty shout it out, which is in point the central cause of the confusion. It was followed by a journal explaining my views and how i felt at the time, and I had stated that i had considered myself homophobic, as well as making a couple of extremely inappropriate racial comments and opinions.
With a heavy heart, i strongly regret everything that i said, and everything that i did involving that stupid submission that i posted. I was young, and didnt have a full understanding of how amazing the community really is. I was raised in an extremely conservative home, where the mention of anything homosexual or out of the norm resulted in punishment. My views were brought up to me in a negative way, and once i was exposed to the gay community, i realized that everything that i was taught, everything that my parents had told me was wrong. And how they were able to make me honestly believe and think the way they did is absolutely disgusting. It was actually thanks to the furry fandom, that i was able to learn more about the gay community, and realize that what i was doing wasnt right at all. I realize what i had done is vile, and i feel disgusting about it every single time that i hear or see the word 'homophobic'. If i had any way of going back, i would have never made myself create that submission, or all of the hurtful things that came along with it.
It is not in my intention in the slightest to offend anyone. And i would just like to again sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart if i have personally upset or hurt you guys. Every single one of you are amazing, and incredible people, who have been nothing but a positive influence on my life. And i am so grateful that i found you guys when i did.
The post has long been taken down, even though it has been circulating around on other sites. I just want you guys to know that what is said on that submission, is not how i feel today, or have felt for a very long time.
I respect this,
and I thank you.
Manic.
Also, I'm well-aware that bisexuals can be interested in transgendered and nonbinary-gendered individuals as well, I just believe the term ('bi-' meaning 'two') is, in its very definition, too exclusionary. Again, this is just for my own personal identification - I don't claim to have any sort of monopoly on the terms! Thanks.
Thanks! :3
I was raised as "Love is love, no matter who you are" and thats what I believe and teach. When I see someone who is homophobic I know that they were treated and raised as love is ONLY love if you love the right gender.
Its all a matter of being told the wrong things at a young age. The past is past, and future is what we look towards. SO bravo to you to realizing the simple rule I live by... Love is love.
Homosexuality was never really addressed. (Though you couldn't blame anyone, I was born in an Islamic country).
And my experiences with homosexuals have been consistently unpleasant, with open relationships, the practice of "hooking up" and assuming I was into that sort of thing even though I had made clear otherwise.
So yeah, I was mildly "fed up" with homosexuals before I interacted with them, and then my real-life experiences didn't help at all...
Anyways, you are clearly very sorry and remorseful for your actions, idk what else to say except I hope this all settles down soon!
But yeah I was the same way before, but because I was not educated on the whole thing, to me two guys was weird and two girls was weird as well, but getting to know many gay guys and girls, honestly I forgot why I used to think it was odd to begin with. It is just a matter of sexual preference, it does not affect how a person can be, or how he/she should be seen.
Sorry I'm just curious
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And a bit more thoughts from me
All I wish for is equality here, it also goes for straight people. I'm straight and I dont want to be overlooked due to it. I respect and feel sympathy for all kinds of people, but it really is'nt rewarding if the kind of response I get is "oh. you're heterosexual. ehhhh." :/ Ive experienced that. I dont understand it
I sorta grew homophobic whilst I was there, because I didn't want people to think I was 'into them' just because my mum was with a woman.
I also slightly blamed my stepmum for being the cause of a lot of awful stuff that went down in my childhood, and sorta blamed 'gay people' for 'ruining my life.'
I have since learnt better and have even come out as pansexual and genderqueer, myself. :3
I was raised in a LGBT-accepting family and I was always told that homosexuality is totally normal and I shouldnt act like a jerk and say it's weird or anything
Yet still I have been accused of being anti-something on here, FA.
I've gotten into arguments with people from such minorities and if they picked on MY identity, I did the same to them. Apparently that was wrong.
Because only I got shit for doing so. They never did.
*hugs you*
but im glad you have opened your mind and heart and now are more accepting of others heehe
Now I'm a raging homo.
Would ya look at that. Hahaha whoops
but yeah I know hos is it to have a family bringing you up that way
This place has so much to offer.
Also, who cares about your past views.... I never knew about what you wrote, and I still don't know what you wrote. If people can't forgive and forget, then screw them for trying to make things worse.
Yeah, I had a similar situation. Unfortunately I think a lot of people never have reason to question what they're taught unless they're exposed to something different-enough to make them question those teachings. I think a lot of hate and a lot of closeted-ness results from this.
Glad to hear that you were able to take a step back and reconsider your opinions.
Well Aero you know where I'm from and I know where you live so I don't think it should surprise you when I say I know exactly where you're coming from. But my perspective changed regarding my raised views on alternate sexualities, just as yours did, years and years ago.
It's sad too that your family raised you in such extremist circumstances. I don't know how little regard I have for your family but it's an amount of dislike that isn't properly communicable. Meaning, I can't tell you or anyone who knows you enough how much I don't like them because I know that's where this whole thing stemmed from.
It is however very, very big of you to speak about this, and shows in the time that I've known you, that you have grown in leaps and bounds. And I am very, very proud of you.
I will say that it gives me a lot of sadness knowing that this sort of thing is so rampant in this state. Or at least, that's how so many others perceive it as. I know only based off of my own experiences growing up and the experiences of close friends how close minded many Texans still are, and why they feel the way they do. I don't agree with how anti-homosexual peoples think, at all, and I think it's just not right to judge a person based off of their sexuality. But I know where they come from and why they think the way they do.
I'm blessed that while my parents are very close-minded people, and would probably disown me if I were ever to even mention 'hey I thought about sexing up a girl,' they are of the view that you should 'love the sinner, not the sin.' So they raised me to notice it, love the person, but not what is perceived as a sin. Again not something I agree with today, nor have I for almost an entire decade now, but still. I know where you and many others are coming from when they say 'once upon a time I didn't like BLANK group of people based off of this or that.'
So what do you think about transgender people ?