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Gay teen shares the letter he left his homophobic parents when he fled home
A teenager in the US has shared the heartbreaking letter he left for his parents, who refused to accept him as gay, before fleeing home.
19-year-old Kent Mendez posted the letter, written in both English and Spanish, on Twitter, before starting a crowdfunding campaign to help him find his feet.
“There hasn’t been a day where I haven’t cried or struggled to find the energy to get out of bed,” Mendez writes in the note. “This doesn’t experience like a home and I don’t think it ever will.”
“You have accused me of being a bad person, of existence an embarrassment, and telling me I have a psychological disorder. I don’t think you guys will ever understand what it’s like to hear that from your own parents and how harmful and damaging it is to a child.”
The teen continues, recounting the time his parents attempted to “cure” him of homosexuality.
“The other day you asked me what parents were for,” he writes. “Parents are supposed to love and accept their children unconditionally.”
Naples Teen Shares Same-sex attracted ‘Glo Up’ on Twitter, Inspires Hashtag
In October, Naples Tall senior Caitlin Crowley shared a photo of herself attending Homecoming with a male date during her freshman year, next to a photo from this year’s Homecoming, which she attended with her girlfriend. The caption read, “Freshman to senior year, does this tally as a glo up???” reports Annika Hammerschlag in USA Today.
The post, which uses a common pun on the group of words “grow up” that usually refers to a child who grows into an attractive adult, instantly went viral. As of Nov. 1, the post has been retweeted over 36,000 times.
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ users were inspired by the post’s positive note about coming out. They posted their own side-by-side comparisons, with many of them using the hastag #GayGloUp and tagging Crowley in their posts.
Crowley says the experience has been “unbelievable and unexpected, but completely heartwarming and humbling.” Meanwhile, she has gotten private messages from other immature LGBTQ+ people looking for advice on coming out, who she’s been delighted to talk to.
Crowley was originally scared to come ou
A screenshot of a photo Kirill recently tweeted
In the last few months, Russia has change into notorious for its antigay stance. Vladimir Putin’s regime has passed “gay propaganda” laws that effectively ban people from discussing anything in support of LGBT people, and now gay people and their allies live in horror of prosecution and attack—especially from the neo-Nazi anti-gay group Occupy-Pedofilyay, a group led by former skinhead Maxim Martsinkevich, which uses online personal advertisements to lure homosexual boys to buildings where they detain and humiliate them. The group films the boys existence harassed and then uploads the videos onto the internet.
Russian queers cannot run to the police for help, since most likely, none would be given. Few gays are able to leave Russia, so they dwell within a country that hates them. Apart from activists protesting in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, most gays have either gone into hiding or attempted to mask their identity, making it tough for Westerners to know what it’s really like to be gay in Russia. But one brave gay Russian teenager is changing this with @ru_lgbt_teen, a Twitter account about being a gay teen in Novosibirsk, the third most
As a gay teenager, this Twitter meme is partnering with queer-pandering corporations
Happy Identity festival Month!
Every June, we're met with more and more absurd attempts by corporate America to verify their dedication to equality. It seems like businesses will do just about anything — with the exception of putting in place actual practices that will help the LGBTQ community — to try to convince customers that they really care. And a recent trend on Twitter is using the same format those corporations use to make some... cute funny memes.
They descend along the lines of the indisputably funny Meg Stalter, who beautifully encapsulates the effect businesses have on the rest of us when they pander to queer people once a year.
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