This post is dedicated to everyone who is not coming out today, whether it be due to personal preference or external circumstances.
Additionally, this post is also dedicated to everyone who has been “outed” against their will by another person and never had the opportunity to come out on their own.
The US Senate just voted to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Oh my God. So touching and at the same time I loled so much.
Thank you Jeffery Self.
So you know all the people liking and reblogging the Matty and Bobby photo I posted?
It’s made me happy to see all the love being given to them and all the positve comments from people who were moved by what they did. But tonight someone reblogged it and added some REALLY hateful comments trying to undermine their accomplishment and using some hurtful language.
I’m not going to reblog it or respond to it or anything because it doesn’t deserve the attention, but…
It just makes me really sad and frustrated.
I go on Tumblr to share things that make me happy and share in what makes other people happy. When people bring that kind of negativity into things… it shouldn’t happen. Not on Tumblr, not in life. It’s just… it’s things like that that remind me, however far acceptance of the LGBT community has come and however much of a positive bubble I’m so fortunate to be in myself… there’s some really, excuse me, fucked up people out there that think that somehow other people are not worth as much, their accomplishments automatically not as worthwhile, because they don’t fit heternormativity.
But it also shows how brave Bobby and Matty are, that they not only fought and won against the physical, mental, and emotional trials they faced in breaking this record, but they made a statement in the face of this kind of judgment and hatred.
I think they won against that too. And that, hateful reblogger, is what the big deal is. It should just be a silly world record, a fun accomplishment, but because of people like you, it isn’t. It means something, it stands for something — something good.
Somehow my post has become Tumblr-famous… Every time I refresh my dashboard there’s like 10 more notifs for that thing.
Matty and Bobby definitely deserve the recognition, I’m just a little freaked out — if I had at all expected this would happen, I would’ve included, you know, some more actual information about who they are and what they were doing and where to find out more about them. For the record, since there are a lot of comments about this: no, they aren’t dating, they’re just friends.
Also it is very sweet though I can imagine at that point they felt pretty miserable physically. They weren’t allowed to sleep, all they could “eat” was drinking through straws, they had to stand in that small area, there were no breaks, and they couldn’t wear adult diapers or anything — if they had to pee, well… It really was an impressive feat of endurance for a couple of average college students all in the name of sending a positive message. I admire them for that — I watched hours and hours of the live feed and it may not seem exciting, but, well, like I said on Twitter, I think I know how sports fans feel now :P
And I hope that photographer doesn’t mind their photo getting all over Tumblr now. (Though I did link to the source, at least.)
Edit: In the time it took me to write that, it jumped to 500 notes :P
Awesome photo of Bobby and Matty when it was announced that they’d passed the current longest kiss record (of 32 hours and 7 mins). Matty started crying. Incredible moment.
Photo copyright: Dena Lagomarsino, TCNJ
(Source: facebook.com)
I think they have just over three hours left! So exciting.
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