Lgbtq In College

Love; a noun; an intense feeling of deep affection. Now, when the definition of love is used in today's society, one might think of a scrappy young couple barely getting by in a worn down apartment in New York or Portland, sitting down in a pile of blankets and thinking of the most unique child names for their soon to be. One might think of a love between a soft newborn and their mother moments after being brought into the world, the love and admiration in the mother's eyes thinking of all the endless possibilities their life could have. Love could be used when the parents send their child off to school, tears filling their eyes because they are so proud to see the love of their life, their born child growing up and experiencing the vast
At schools youth are not as knowledgeable in lgbtq+ as liked. Youth still get bullied, harrassed, judged, and even go as far as experiencing physical violence in show of dislike towards sexual preference and/or gender identification. Love is not a feeling that youth experience in the halls at school because of the lack of acceptance. 15 year old Dylan is a prime example of youth lgbtq. He came out when he was 12 years old and was fully open and accepting and immediately made actions to widen the knowledge in the basis of LGBTQ+. However, while he was loving and accepting, his peers were not. In school, he reported being called “ Fag, Butt Pirate, Fairy, Aids whore, homo, queer, and sissy.” (Bochenek, Michael. "Hatred in the Hallways."). Almost immediately after the verbal violence had started, reportedly physical violence soon followed. “One day in the parking lot outside of his school, six students surrounded him and threw a lasso around his neck, saying ‘let’s tie the faggot to the back of the truck’” immediately after the incident he ran inside the school to find one of his vice-principles “‘I was still hysterical’ he explained ‘I was trying to explain, but I was stumbling over my words. She laughed.’” (Bochenek, Michael. "Hatred in the Hallways.") Dylan however is not the only one who is receiving the short end of love. In a national survey of over 6,000 lgbtq youth “ found that nearly 100% of LGBT
They are people who do not feel the body or mind they were born with is the one thats right for them. They experience many different re actions when coming out to their parents, gaurdians, friends and peers. Some recieve loving accepting responses, while others- a vast majority- do not. Leelah Alcorn for example, a trans girl trapped in a boys body went through a purplex situation regarding her home life. It led to complications in growing up and eventually a suicide. She didnt leave without making her mark in the LGBTQ+ community, however. In her suicide note posted on tumblr, Decemeber 28th, 2014 she stated an amount of things that needed to be done. “ My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say “that’s f***ed up” and fix it. Fix society. Please.” (Leelah Alcorn's Suicide Note, Tumblr). Not only did she mention things she wanted to change about society in her suicide note, she mentioned her home life experience and the things she went through as soon as she came out as transgendered. “I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don’t tell this to your kids. Even if you