by itabix | Feb 23, 2015 | Alan Turing, Assimilation, Gay kid, Teenage Suicides
“When I was sixteen years old, I tried to kill myself. I felt weird and I felt different and I felt like I didn’t belong. Now I’m standing here. So I would like this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she’s weird or she’s different or she doesn’t fit...
by itabix | Feb 13, 2015 | Assimilation, Courage
“The change in people’s attitudes on that issue has been enormous,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. “In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor — we’re very fond of them....
by itabix | Feb 6, 2015 | The effects of bigotry
It has been reported everywhere (Daily Mail, here) that in the last several days ISIS members in Syria have thrown a bound gay man off the roof of a seven-story building. When he survived his fall, a crowd who gathered at the foot of the building stoned him to death....
