I'm not making gay people sound pitiful. I'm describing my life experience indirectly through this piece, and I do know people who went through this experience as well.

I live in San Francisco, and I'm lucky to be here because a lot of gay people are here too and SF doesn't bother us much. Only some people know that I'm am bisexual and/or gay... I'm not sure exactly which is the case.

deviantART is a place for art. It's a place to express yourself. You also didn't need to make this public, you realise, although I really don't mind much because it doesn't affect me. I use dA to write about my experiences, and you really do not know what I've gone through.

I'll tell you this, though... when I was in kindergarten, I had no idea that I was bisexual. So when I kissed a girl who was one of my good friends without any idea that it was "wrong" in the eyes of the kids at my school, a large gang of them followed me around. They hit me and kicked me repeatedly. My legs bled a lot, and I kept coming home with bruises. When my mother asked me where I got them, I said I tripped, because I was afraid what SHE would think. I still have a scar on my ankle that hasn't faded for years... although God knows how it managed to stay there.

I live in a Christian, to be exact, Roman-Catholic family. I was raised thinking gay people are bad and protesting strongly against them in my home, and what do you think I felt when I figured out I was gay, myself? To this day, my parents, aunts, and grandparents still tell me that to be gay is utterly wrong; my uncles don't care that much. My family still have no idea I am actually bisexual, and so they tell me it is bad. Right in front of me. It's like a slap to my face.

My aunt said just recently, "Being gay isn't right. But to be bisexual--that's the worst of them."

... I am bisexual. And right there, my favourite aunt, the one I love the most, is telling me to my face that it's wrong to be what I am. It's wrong, and if I were bisexual, she'd disown me. Did anyone ever tell you that before?

Really. This isn't exactly meant to stir up a lot of pity. It's meant to describe how some people can feel about this situation. I really, really don't think you'd understand my own experience.

And I'm not saying that gays not human. That is an assumption, and I think you forgot to read the line that states directly "We are human". I also wrote this in first person, if you noticed.

And I get the feeling that you posted this after seeing just my poetry. I really get that feeling, and it hurts to see that you, of all people, who claim to be bisexual like me, do not go out there and help other people to cope with their life experiences. Really.

everyone feels different about certain issues. just because you don't feel that way doesn't mean no one else does.

Eh, goes both ways, that.

What bothers me more is most of this writing isnt good enough to help us understand what the author is talking about.

I got bullied a bit. I also had friends. Real life friends, which you cannot substitute the internet for :l

I feel like some of the people in this thread are disagreeing just to disagree. If the OP, for instance, took the side of the people he's talking about, the phrase "Harden the Fuck Up" would be used relentlessly, and most of us know it.

I actually side with the OP. Considering I was bullied throughout my school life; had an abusive lover who berated me every day for two years about being trans (as well as being prone to violence); and a father who would rather kick me out but won't because his wife will divorce him; I can say that I did harden the fuck up, because I realized part of the problem was my doing. I realized that I was letting things get to me when I should have just focused on my life and my decisions, so I finally started to live life the way I wanted to. I got past the bullying, got out of the abusive relationship, and finally started to deal with the conflicts I had with my father.

Is everything just fine now? Of course not; there are still challenges I'm facing and challenges I will continue to face, but that's life. However, I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit there and wallow in my own sorrows, because I did enough of that in the past. The OP is right in regards to how people need to learn to deal with a world that is not nice. It's a world that does not care about you and will go out of its way to fuck you up royally. But if you let it destroy you, then it's your doing.

Unless something legitimately horrifying happens to you (getting beaten, raped, made homeless, killed, or something along those lines), you have no room to complain about your life.

Is everyone else here forgetting the T (transgender) ???

Anyways, like others said not everyone's experiences are the same as yours.

I don't see too much of a need for gay poems either, but people can do what they want. Some people use dA as an outlet. Just let people be and you'll find that life is less annoying.

Also, what I think there needs to be more of regarding LGBT on here is topics about Transgender people. Only positive things though. They still aren't too well-known, and they need to be accepted. But I guess we should follow baby steps and wait until the LGB part of LGBT is more so accepted.

Transgender people are hated more so than gays and bisexuals and whateversexuals, just saying.

you are joking right? .....if not you have a lot to learn about the world.

I don't even consider myself as part of the LGBT although everyone tells me i am