Homophobia is Homophobia
People act like what my mother’s husband said to me about how I’ll not ever end up with Shawn Suleiman isn’t a big deal or that him being empowered by the fact he is appearing right is no big deal because it’s just words.
Words are what cause bigger issues for LGBT+ from the false claims that conversion therapy works, physical attacks on LGBT, bullying of LGBT+, to murder of gay and transgender people.
Words can hurt and do more damage than physical abuse does. While wounds and bruises heal words and the response/actions of others cut more deeper and don’t leave the victims of such verbal/emotional/mental abuse. The scars run much deeper and are more easily opened the next time an LGBT+ gets verbally attacked by a homophobe.
Homophobia is homophobia, it doesn’t matter if it is verbal, physical, conversion therapy (aka torture) or murder. All are disgraceful and dangerous, especially if the homophobe is appearing right and being empowered because of it.
You are complicit if you think words or letting a homophobe appear right is no big deal and if you are outraged by their violence, murder, suicide and conversion therapy than you should be outraged by their words or the fact one is appearing right because it’s their words that lead to the violent attacks, suicide, murder and conversion therapy.
They are lead by their ignorant beliefs of homosexuality being sinful and that people are the gender they are born and empowering their beliefs by letting one appear right only adds to their already deluded beliefs.
Homophobia is homophobia, all is wrong and dangerous, none should be ignored nor should a homophobe be allowed to appear right to empower that ignorant belief.
