homophobia hurts every one

Homophobia locks all people into rigid gender-based roles, which inhibit creativity and self expression. It often is used to stigmatize, silence, and, on occasion, target people who are perceived or defined by OTHERS as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, but who are, in actuality, heterosexual.-Warren J. Blumenfeld

my favorite question that was asked at our conference was how many of you say ”thats so gay”? every one put up there hand, nobody really understands by saying that your affecting some one around you. we never take into consideration who might be around us, and how it might affect them.

as warren j. Blumenfeld says this doesn’t just affect people who are LGBT it affects people who are called it on a regular bases even though they are heterosexual. targeting some one as being a LGBT is a discrimination. we learned that infact if you are saying these harsh thing to someone you can lose your rights, such as your freedom of speech and even who you were aloud to be friends with according to the human rights in british columbia. at first i didnt beleive this until alex-the girl who taught ” what language is that anyways?” showed us page that actually tells us what we lose if we say these things.

so next time your calling some one gay, fag, lesbian, so you can feel big about yourself and try to take away their freedom of speech. think twice because in the end it might be your freedom that gets taken away.!