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[quote=Anonymous]You know what?  I get it.  I really do.  I get why a person is closeted and ashamed.  I was there myself.  I was raised by an evangelical family.  They don't accept gay or trans people.  They instilled so much shame for being a queer person into me.  It took a really long time to come to terms with it and stop being ashamed of being myself.  That being said, I never made homophobic or transphobic comments.  If anything, I acted like an ally before admitting I was part of the community (to which some people were not at all surprised to find out).

No one should feel shame for being queer.  If you take that shame and you package it up into little boxes of hate and you throw them at other out queer people in order to make money, you are a horrible person.  He and others like him deserve to come out and lives as their authentic self and be happy.  They also need to spend time and money to try to reverse some of the hate and damage they have done.  They are responsible for people's estrangement from family and even in some cases people's deaths (by murder or suicide).  They need to talk to conservatives and explain that sexuality and gender identity are immutable.  Having your career destroyed like he is about to have happen isn't great for him but it's something we all fear.  We all fear reactions from family, friends, work, and life.  He probably thinks this is the worst thing in the world that can possibly happen but if he or someone he knows is reading this, take this chance to actually be yourself.  Once you're out, you're out.  Life as yourself is always better than a closeted life of shame.  And please, make amends for the harm you have done.[/quote]

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