Discrimination

What does it mean? Is there anything I am missing? Why won’t people just give me what I want and leave me alone? It isn’t like I am asking for the world here. I really don’t see how it is too much to ask really. Everyone of the ‘norm’ has it so why can’t I? If there was a way I could conquer the world and get it myself I would. Truly I would and I wouldn’t stop at just me. I would get it for any one else in my shoes unable to get it for themselves. Why? Because it isn’t right, it isn’t what I thought people were like. Of course people have let me down before on a variety of other issues so it should be no surprise but it is and it hurts. What is it that makes me so different from everyone else? Am I alien or deformed from any recognition as a human being that they can be so cruel to me?
From the time I was a child I knew I was different. I looked at myself different when I watched people. I did not have the capability to know that there was a term for people like me. That didn’t stop me from wondering, that didn’t keep me from roaming around the playground and stores looking for people like me who looked at others the way I did. Terms didn’t stop me from looking and terms didn’t stop me from wondering if I was somehow broken. Was I different because I wasn’t made right. Maybe my parents noticed I was odd but didn’t want to hurt my feelings. If I told them I thought I was odd would they hate me? Just a few things a child comes out with. I was gay and I know that now.
So what does that mean to me now? It means I like the same sex. It means that I am in fact different from the norm of society. And I suppose it is that difference which means people can look at me as though I am plagued. It means that because I have someone in my bed that society does not approve of I can be treated as though my voice does not matter. However, I want to tell you something. My voice does matter. Just because that voice comes from a gay person does not mean it sounds any different, it doesn’t and it wants to be heard. I see it as such an issue in politics and religions all over the world. It makes its way on the news and the floors of government parliaments and congresses. There are parties trying to treat me like I am diseased and I don’t understand why. Can’t anyone tell me why?