~zombiecoreexistance

An openly gay fifteen year old boy, an eighth grader, was murdered by another fifteen year old boy who he asked to be his Valentine.

It is absolutely mind boggling to me that the stigma against homosexuality is so strong that a fifteen year old would be motivated to murder another fifteen year old simply because he was a boy who happened to ask him out. That the stigma against homosexuality in America is so strong that this boy felt like he would rather murder this boy than face the idea that he'd been asked out by him.

This is the sort of thing that needs to be changed. There's no reason that people should hate something so much that they would kill someone over something so small as their sexual orientation. This needs to change. Please help me change this in your attitudes in everyday life, people. Please stop using the word gay as a synonym for lame or stupid, please stop saying fag. Please stop making people think that suicide is a better choice than coming out. Please make the gay people you meet feel comfortable around you.

We aren't just gay, bisexual, transgendered, etcetera. We're not just big piles of homosexuality, we're people. Please remember that. We're people.