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>>Sean I'm Sean, I'm a political science mar and I'm a sophomore here at Temple. I knew
as a little kid that I was always different, And at 9 years old, or 12 you don't really
have a name for it.It was about a year ago, just in the middle of my freshman year on
Christmas break. My family's very diverse and they're generally.. reaction was finally!
duh! It's always hard and I spent my entire Christmas break doing it. I didn't just start
wearing rainbow colors and dancing to Cher everywhere I went because that's not necessarily
how it works. I just felt like me for once. Here at Temple it's just like a complete,
I don't even know how to begin to describe the sociology of it. Everybody, it's just
not a big deal, it's just normal. period. I guess I just wanna say that for all the
kids that haven't come out yet or anything that, you are some much more confident than
you give yourself credit for. You are always going to be tougher, braver more beautiful
more powerful than that person who's torturing you will ever be. I think that assimilation
and acceptance happens over a very very long period of time. I don't think it's going to
be an overnight process. We want to be treated like everybody else, we wanna to be "normal."
We just want to participate as functional members within society that just happen to
be gay. That's it.