Can you guess what I am?

I am hated by people who are white, black, Asian, and every other race out there.
I am hated by both men and women alike.
I am hated by the governments.
I am hated by religions.
I am viewed as a pervert.
I am not given the same rights as others.
I am even hated by others who are the same as I am.
People who are like me having been killed just for being them.
(I am not saying all people in these groups hate me, but there are many within those groups who hate me)

Can you guess what I am?

If you know me, then you know the answer to this question. I am homo! I am a white middle class male who is also gay. Now most people would like to think I am the majority, but I am not. People hate me just for who I love. People think I choose to be what I am, but I must ask you, did you choose who you fall in love with? People often say you can control those feelings, but I do not think repressing one of the most basic emotions is something I want to control. People think that I can marry if I choose, I just have to choose to marry female. People compare my love to the love between animals and humans, some how being intimate with a person of the same sex is like bestiality.

Now you may be asking what brought this up. I was reading another site about being a minority. They felt that because I am white and male that I can't try to defend myself from being called insensitive and trying to defend myself to prevent them from having a false view of me. Being white and male does not make me the majority, it also does not mean I support the majority. Being white and male also does not mean that I can't understand where a minority is coming from. They wrote about having to allow the minority to speak and have their soap box and that I should not try to speak against their soap box. And I also disagree with this. Being a minority does not give anyone free will to say anything they would like without allowing dialog. I feel like all of the minorities in this world are trying to compete for who has it the worst. And you know what I am going to say it, homosexuals have it the worst.

In the United States our laws do not to apply the same to homosexuals as they do others. In fact, there is the homosexual exception. Everyone has the fundamental right to marriage, except for homosexuals. Everyone has the right to not be discriminated against because of their race, gender, age, or national origin, except if you are homosexual you can be discriminated against because of that. Think about it this way, if I were to tell you everyone could marry except for African Americans, what would you think of that? A sane person would be outraged by that, and they would fight to change. How often have you heard someone describe something they think is stupid as gay? But what if I called something stupid as straight. "That stupid monster truck show was so straight". Yes that is kind of funny and is probably a straight thing to do, but it is not right to compare a negative thing with something that is apart of someone else.

What if tomorrow homosexuals were the majority? And me being the almighty president of homo land, I have decided that marriage is illegal for straight people. You are only allowed to marry a person of the same sex. You also are not allowed to have sexual relations with a person of the opposite sex. Now of course this would never happen, because homosexuals will never be the majority. But the examples have happened and are happening now. But instead of it being straight people who are being discriminated against, it is homosexuals. Did you know that two men having sex in their own private bedroom was once recently illegal. It wasn't changed until 2003 in the Lawrence vs. Texas case. To this day I am still not allowed to marry the person I want. So this isn't as far fetched as one might think.

There is one thing that I must demand of every minority out there and everyone else who supports them. I demand your support in my fight for the same rights as everyone else. Now that sounds harsh to demand someone to support you, but the only way any of us can win is if we work together. That means you must demand my support in your fight as well. I am willing to give my support to your fight, and when I do, do not judge me because I am a white male. Not all white males are the enemy. We all have our struggles, no one struggle is greater than another I just happen to be living mine as you are living yours. Really we are all fighting for a similar cause, so we must help one another out. This means that when you hear someone calling something gay you will correct them. Just as I will correct someone if they use a racial slur. You also must support me having the same rights as everyone else in return I will support you having the same rights as everyone else. You will also teach your children to respect everyone, including the kid who has two mommies, and if I have children I will make sure they are supportive of your children for being who they are. I think this is where Bill Clinton would say it takes a village, because it really does. Once again it goes back to us being everything and nothing at the same. My actions effect everything around me, yet I am nothing without everyone else.

You must start now!