I cry for them. I didn't have to put up with any of the bullying as a teen. That's what happens when you come out later in life. I'm not saying that it won't happen to me. It very well could, but its different now as an adult. I'm not as insecure as I was back then. There are people that support me and that I know I can turn too. 
Even before I came out the Trevor Project and the NOH8 campaign were important to me. I don't live to far from Rutgers where Tyler Clementi attended school before he jumped off the George Washington Bridge. Why did he do this? His roommate taped him and another male student together and posted it on the web. I don't expect things like that to happen so close to home. Call it naive, it probably is, but those things happen in other states. The thought of another person's ignorance and hate causing someone to take their life is unacceptable. It should outrage everyone. Why doesn't it?
Now that I think about it, I guess as an adult we do get bullied, because the government won't let us marry who we want. I won't let them tell me what to do with my body, am I really going to ask their permission to marry another girl? What business is it of theirs? Of anyone's really?
This is a really good video that's posted on the NOH8 site and youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFZ7qjrw5U&feature=player_embedded There's a lot more too on their website http://www.noh8campaign.com/
I was born to be brave. And I'll marry whoever the fuck I want.
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