LGBTQ Questionnaire (HOORAY!)

1. How long have you known you are part of the LGBT community?
I suspected I was somewhat different by the age of four and again in my late elementary school years and it carried on in middle school. So, basically all my life.

2. Was it a struggle (emotionally) for you at the beginning?
   YES, IT WAS!!! It was like fighting a war!!!! .....it was worth fighting for.

3. How did you start to discover your sexuality? (Example, thoughts, feelings…ex)
Well I've had crushes as early as 5 years old...on both men and women.But at the time, there was no one to talk about it and I never knew it had a name. I didn't worry too much about it though. I was very carefree at that age. In middle school, I was confused because I got the notion that girls are supposed to be with boys and boys with girls, case closed. I was 20 when I realized my desires had a name.

4. What part of the LGBT community do you belong to? (Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, ex)
    I go by pansexual or queer

5. How long have you been out of the closet, or if your not, do you plan to be at some point?
   I've been out a little over a year. I lost some "friends" when I came out, but it wasn't a loss to me. It made me stronger knowing who my real friends are. A whole year of me being out and I never once regretted it.

6. Does your parents/parent know, or will they ever know?
   Oh, yes!

7. Did they take it well, or do you predict that they will take it well?
     I should say they took it really well. It made no difference other than stopping arguments between me and my sibs when we argue about the subject. At first, my folks were skeptical, but soon it sank in and they now know I'm pansexual. But they still think I'm bi because the concept still confuses them which is understandable. It basically all boils down to them being ok and my mother added that she doesn't care as long as the person makes me happy and treats me well and loves me for me. That's all that matters.

8. Would you…
a. Hold hands with your same gender partner in public?
   Hell, yes!
b. Kiss them in public?
    You betcha!
c. Introduce them as 'your girl/boyfriend' to family and friends that haven't met them?
    Yes. One thing that makes me iffy is doing so to my Nana Olga. You see, she is very old-fashioned and very set in her ways. The worst thing she would do is go on and on with a lecture that constantly repeats itself (I don't mean to sound crass, but it's true. She would do that if given the chance).

9. What 3 things ANGERS THE HELL outta you about people's terrible 'opinions' about the LGBT community or certain comments, acts, ex…
(Bad grammar. What 3 things ANGER***)
1. Stereotypes, obviously. I face that bull everyday and it gets annoying and sickening!
2. When people shove religion down my throat and only focusing that one quote in the bible when the rest of it doesn't apply to them and how people make a big stink about how gay marriage is going to ruin the sanctity of marriage when they never take into account when issues point to heterosexual divorce since that mostly destroys the sanctity of marriage.
3. People calling people fags, faggots, trannys, dykes, etc. And people relating homosexuality with murder, child molestation, bestiality, madness, and kleptos.  

10. Do you like/love someone right now of the same gender?
Yes, I do.

11. If so, do they know?
    No and maybe they never will...

12. Have you told someone about your sexuality and they took it badly?
     Here's the problem. I didn't actually tell that person. This guy I was talking to at a bus stop to pass the time saw my gay pride button on my school bag and then turned a 180. He started calling me a harlot, a sinner, a dyke, saying all the usual stereotypes against LGBT and even went as far as saying that he saw my with my "faggot friend" at the mall nearby a while ago and then he told me he could save me from that wretched lifestyle and he just would not shut up! After numerous attempts to tell him to leave me be, I walked away to another bus stop. After I was a good mile away from him, I broke down and sobbed.

13. Are you proud of whom you are?
   YES! There's no greater feeling than to love and accept yourself for who you are!