This is why we have to fight

"'Loving! Lusting, you mean. Read your Bible... Read Leviticus, read Romans 1:26.' I don't know what I said then. Maybe I didn't say anything. I'm not sure I was able to think any more. I do remember, though, that I went home and read Leviticus and Romans, and cried again."
~ Garden, Nancy. Annie on My Mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. (Place of publication unknown)
It touches something deep inside me and makes me feel like crying to think of kids being read Leviticus and Romans and told that they are abominations. Why must What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality be so little known that my local library system doesn't have it?
This is why I have to do this. This is what to keep in mind. This is why apathy won't cut it. This is why we have to fight.
Because apathy won't cut it. "I don't care what you do in your own time." "Why can't gay people do what they want and leave us alone?"
Because we aren't a disease, to be hidden away and forgotten about. In recent memory, I heard a conversation in which a girl had never heard of gay girls. She seemed to think it only applied to men. I had never even heard of the concept of transgender until a few years ago. How can we expect our teens to feel good about themselves, when as far as they know, nobody else is like them? When a girl likes other girls and assumes it's just friendship love and that it will always be better than romantic love? What will happen when she's engaged, or even married, and realizes the truth? When a boy who is biologically a girl, or vice versa, assumes that something is wrong with them--or flat out assumes they are gay, when that isn't necessarily true? How can we expect teens to grow up well-adjusted when they are seriously confused? When there is no obvious support, or anyone they know they can turn to with questions? When everywhere same-sex couples are still denied marriage, not to mention marriage within their faith? That isn't going to work. We have to fight if we want any of that. No, apathy won't cut it. If you're not against us, please, join us.

I'm here for the Revolution.

I'm Phoenix Tawnyflower. That's not my name. That's who I am. Who I want to be. The world's not a friendly place for the GLBTQ folk. I hear someone complain about being called gay, like it's something to be ashamed of.
We do not need to be ashamed.
That's what I'm here for.
I'm here for the out and proud who want somewhere to direct their family and friends.
I'm here for the closeted, the questioning, the friends and family of the out and proud who need information or a helping hand.
I'm here for everyone who's too scared to buy a book or check one out of the library--because someone might see.
Nobody knows what websites you're visiting. The internet-savvy can even wipe their history.
I'm here to tell the world things they'll never hear otherwise. Can you name which states have legalized same-sex marriage? Did you even know they have? If you did, you most likely didn't hear about it through the grapevine. You have to search.
I'm here because I want to help all of the GLBTQ, their family and their friends feel that they can be proud--if not necessarily out.
I'm here because there are things that should happen, that need to happen. Like legalizing same-sex marriage in all the states, and making it possible for loving same-sex couples to marry within their church.
The Revolution has started. There are people who are working hard to make all these things happen. I want to be the headquarters for that. I want to be the place for people to go for links to everything GLBTQ. It's not going to be easy. But that's who I want to be.
I'm Phoenix Tawnyflower, and I'm here for the Revolution.