In my very first article for the Odyssey, I wrote about being bisexual and I came out to the whole world. With the time frame from then until now, I keep hearing phrases such as, "Are you sure you're bisexual?", "Don't you feel weird holding another girls' hand?", "God made Adam and Eva, not Adam and Steve." "Are you sure it's not just a phase," and "Being Bisexual is wrong, you have to live the right way and that's to love and marry a guy."

These aren't the only phrases but these are just a few examples. Everyday, there is someone who's afraid of telling their family and friends that they are gay, bisexual, etc. I've heard stories of parents killing their own child because of their sexuality. Killing people in the LGBT+ community doesn't solve anything. People in the community have been fighting for their right to love, marry and to not have their feelings ignored. They are not mentally ill just because two individuals of the same gender are in love with each other. Love is about caring, loving and wanting to be with someone for the rest of their life. Heterosexual couples are what society calls "normal" but love has no gender. Love is an indescribable feeling filled with passion, romance and patience. There's nothing wrong with people loving each other. Why should people in the community get killed, raped, and even beaten up because of who they love.

I have always wondered if society is threatened by people in the community because that'll mean there is one less man or woman as their lover. When it comes to transgenders, I've seen that when a man finds out they are dating a transgender woman, they instantly freak out and want to beat them up. I wonder if it's because the man might think the transgender woman would confuse and question his sexuality but no one deserves to be disrespected like that. If a man finds out they are dating a transgender woman and he doesn't like it then he should break up but in an nonviolent manner.

Everyone wants to love and be loved. People's sexuality is not anyone's business. What matters is there are people trying to spread love while many people want to reject the LGBT+ community. They are not going anywhere. We are not going anywhere and the LGBT+ community is not shoving their sexuality down your throats, They want to be heard, respected and to be treated like the human beings that they are. Sometimes, when I see others having a conversation about the LGBT+ community and when they don't have the same mindset, they try to use religion as their excuse for being ignorant and rude. It seems as if they are trying to shove heterosexuality down our throats and saying how we live and love is not correct. Let me tell you something sweetie, there is no right way to live. There is just a life to live. Let people love who they are attracted to without being verbally or physically abusive. Having to fight for the right to love can be exhausting so let's just support each other without having to abandon one another. Everyone is trying to make their way through life, no one's experience is ever the same. You don't know what someone is going through until you hear their story.