Oh my god the NOTES

HAD TO REBLOG AGAIN !!!

there are only a little over 9million users on Tumblr..almost every single damn person has liked this post. Tumblr has the power!

Never not reblogging because it gets truer and truer every day.

I WILL REBLOG EVERY TIME I SEE IT UNTIL NOVEMBER 6TH

every time.

DISCLAIMER: This is the opinion of one person. Anyone who has alternate opinions is free to believe and share what they wish. In fact, I would love to hear from you. Just shoot me a message and I’ll post it if it’s well written. Just remember, this isn’t YouTube. You can be nice.

Fag, Faggot, Gay, Queer; What do those even mean now? To many they are insults - put downs. To others they are labels - definitions of what they are. But what are they really? Just words. They are nothing but strings of letters. But a knife is just a hunk of metal until it is used. And depending on how it is used, it can cause a lot of harm. Words can cause just as much harm. My challenge to you: Next time you hear someone using hurtful words, stop them. Tell them that that isn’t acceptable behavior. Then inbox me your story. What did you say? What did they say? I’ll post whatever you send me. 

just-methinks:

PRINCETON, N.J. — The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy.

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, lay awake at 4 o’clock on a recent morning knowing he had to do the one thing that comes least naturally to him.

He pushed himself up and staggered into the dark. His desk seemed impossibly far away; Dr. Spitzer, who turns 80 next week, suffers fromParkinson’s diseaseand has trouble walking, sitting, even holding his head upright.

The word he sometimes uses to describe these limitations — pathetic — is the same one that for decades he wielded like an ax to strike down dumb ideas, empty theorizing and junk studies.

Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself, a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change.

What to say? The issue of gay marriage was rocking national politics yet again. The California State Legislature was debating a bill to ban the therapy outright as being dangerous. A magazine writer who had been through the therapy as a teenager recently visited his house, to explain how miserably disorienting the experience was.

And he would later learn that a World Health Organization report, released on Thursday, calls the therapy “a serious threat to the health and well-being — even the lives — of affected people.”

Dr. Spitzer’s fingers jerked over the keys, unreliably, as if choking on the words. And then it was done: a short letter to be published this month, in the same journal where the original study appeared.

“I believe,” it concludes, “I owe the gay community an apology.”

I imagine that supporters of a “gay cure” will still use his study to support their arguments, but maybe it’ll mean a lot to people who have undergone the “cure” and come out on the other side.

quynhs:

things will change, in time. 

alexorue:

France: President François Hollande (@fhollande) Promises Gay Marriage

Joe.My.God. reports:

France’s new prime minister yesterday vowed to fulfill the promise of just-elected President Francois Hollande (above right) and implement full civil marriage equality for same-sex couples.

A communiqué issued by the office of the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, who took office on 15 May, marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia yesterday with a pledge to put the president’s manifesto promise into law. It said: “On the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Prime Minister reaffirmed the Government’s commitment against violence and discrimination perpetrated as a result of sexual orientation or gender identity. The Government is determined to challenge prejudice and to put an end to discrimination and violence. It will implement the commitment of the President of the Republic to the right to marriage and adoption to gay couples.”

How soon the process might begin is not yet known.

DISCLAIMER: This is the opinion of one person. Anyone who has alternate opinions is free to believe and share what they wish. In fact, I would love to hear from you. Just shoot me a message and I’ll post it if it’s well written. Just remember, this isn’t YouTube. You can be nice. 

ac·cept·ance/akˈseptəns Noun:

Agreement with or belief in an idea, opinion, or explanation
Synonyms: reception - admission - approval - adoption

tol·er·ance/ˈtäl(ə)rəns Noun:
1)The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with
2)The capacity to endure continued subjection to something, esp. a drug, transplant, antigen, or environmental conditions, without adverse reaction

Would you rather have someone “endure continued subjection” to you, or to agree with who you are? Personally, I think that when we aim for tolerance, we aren’t aiming high enough. Ever heard the expression “Aim for the moon: even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars”? That applies here too. If we aim for tolerance, people will tolerate you, but people will also continue being bigots, homophobes, and racists. If we aim for acceptance, sure - we might still have people who won’t - but we’ll also have people who tolerate us, and people who accept us as we are.  What more can we hope for, really?   

projectqueer:

Are you being bullied because you are gay or transgender, or because people think that you are? Or do you know someone – a child, a friend, a classmate, a cousin – who is being bullied at school or on the playground or in their college dorm?

Bullying is never OK. You are not alone (in fact, 9 out of 10 LGBT students report being bullied in school; LGBT students are four times more likely to kill themselves than heterosexual students). It is not your fault. There is help.

Here are just a few resources:

* The Trevor Project. 866 4U TREVOR. thetrevorproject.org. A 24-hour, national help line for gay and questioning teens. Trevor receives about 30,000 calls a year. If you are being bullied or are considering suicide, call or visit Trevor’s website now.

Trevor also offers “TrevorChat,” a free, secure online messaging service for counselling between 4 p.m. and midnight Eastern time. The organization’s Trevor Space, a monitored social networking service for gay youth, has about 13,000 registered users.

“So if your town has only 300 people in it, you’re not alone,”spokeswoman Laura McGinnis told the Associated Press.

* AThinLine.org. Are you being cyberbullied? Someone stalking you online? MTV’s website and iPhone app can help you recognize and stop digital abuse. athinline.org

* STOMP Out Bullying. Focuses on reducing bullying and cyberbullying. Here are really good suggestions if someone is currently bullying you. stompoutbullying.com

*HalfofUs.com. If you’re fighting depression or bullying or struggling with thoughts of suicide, this site has resources, a quiz, videos and a community to help. halfofus.com

* The National Center for Bullying Prevention. Helps to promote awareness and teach effective ways to respond to bullying. Pacer.org/bullying

* The Matthew Shepard Foundation runs Matthew’s Place, an online community and resource center for LGBTQ youth. matthewsplace.com

* GLSEN, which counts about 4,000 Gay-Straight Alliances in schools out of 12,000 public school districts. GLSEN works to eradicate bullying and bias in schools. glsen.org

* Campus Pride is non-profit organization of student leaders and groups of gay students and their allies, including an effort focused on fraternities and sororities,lambda10.org.

* Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG. A national support, education and advocacy organization. Support group meetings are available through PFLAG chapters for families. pflag.org

Remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Many, many gay, lesbian and transgender adults have walked the path you are walking. To hear the stories of others – and learn how they got throught it – check out Dan Savage’s project It Gets Better: youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject.

Click the link above to watch some of the It Gets Better videos - as well as others that have been created since the string of recent LGBTQ suicides.