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sdfernando

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6. I applaud this kid

Sun Oct 14, 2018, 10:02 PM

Oct 2018

It wasn’t always this way. I wish it was but it wasn’t. I so wish I could have asked a certain trumpet player to my senior homecoming.... but I saw how the student body ostracized and ridiculed a classmate that came out. It was so bad he ended up dropping out. I lost track of him. Hope he got his GED. Many years later I learned he died of AIDS. I morned for him then.

He was stonger than me back then. I wouldn’t take the risk he did. I couldn’t do it.

So, all you young LGBTQ people out there: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever forget what those “old queens, queers, and Lesbos, did for you! They made this possible!.....and I am so glad I am around to see it....and right now I am crying remembering all my friends, living and dead that made this possible.

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This makes me smile. nt Susan Calvin Oct 2018 #2

Most kids are this way about their gay friends. It's that lunatic fringe that seems to have ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #3

You are exactly right.... dhill926 Oct 2018 #4

I applaud this kid sdfernando Oct 2018 #6

It's a complete 180, hard to absorb the full wonder of the change. JudyM Oct 2018 #7

Yes...exactly right....like a dream sdfernando Oct 2018 #8

They're not going to be able to push it back too far, we have too many allies now, especially JudyM Oct 2018 #11

A help to zentrum Oct 2018 #5

These teenagers are smarter than the majority of adults. That gave me goose bumps. George II Oct 2018 #9

He sounds like a mensch, a great, warm-hearted person. Sweet memory. JudyM Oct 2018 #12

Never ceases to amaze me how times have changed sandensea Oct 2018 #10