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I can walk through the halls of my school and get shot dirty looks, pushed, shoved, and cussed at. You would think that I had done something personally to them, but it's only one thing. The fact I am a lesbian. Unfortunately, this is the reality for me, and thousands of other teens across the United States. The only reason why they are isolated, beaten, and rejected as a whole, is because Sally likes Jane, and Jessie just wants to be Jessica. The bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth is a real problem. One that needs a real solution. Homophobia is everywhere. On every corner, and in every crevice. Those churches on your street are breeding hate, infecting people with bigotry. People walk into voting booths, deciding if people like me can get married when I grow up. In the 50's, being gay was illegal in England, and those here had to hide they fact they were gay. Otherwise they might've ended up 6 feet under. Even though it's not as bad today, people are still getting beaten and killed for being gay. In 1998, a student, with his whole life ahead of him, was killed in a homophobic hate crime. Now, however, we see most hate in politics.
Senator Michele Bachmann has been know to be "anti-gay" and has even made several remarks proving it thus. Such as "It isn't that some gay will get rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it." That's just the same as how we are taught how segregation is wrong, African American's are normal and equal, and you should "try" being black. That same natural attraction straight people feel towards the opposite sex is the same that gay people feel towards the same sex. Transgenders don't try it, they spend years, with body issues, confused, wondering why they hate

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