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Please follow and read the below link on the homeless pride walk! Three people will be traveling across the country and visiting several LGBT community centers and documenting the lives on homosexuals literally living on the streets. According to their site, about 40% of the homeless people are gay oriented. They are making a direct difference by taking this six month trip! I just found this and they leave in two days. They are looking for donations to help many people and are also looking for supplies. As I find more information, I will post their names and more on the walk.

http://www.pridewalk2009.org/

Throughout my life, I have been asked many questions about my sexual orientation. These questions have ranged from friendly conversations, debates, emails, phone calls and have come from friends, family, and strangers. I have searched for answers and clues the majority of my life hoping to finally come to a conclusion about my sexuality. My adventure has taken me many places where I have learned a lot from people and stories that I have accidentally fallen upon in my searches.

I am going to share some of these questions with you today. I can only hope the answers I will give may help someone or encourage others to share their wisdom and stories alike. Coming together as a gay community and supporters of them is a huge task. We must pass on the knowledge to educate society and let our youth know they are not hiding alone in the shadows. Many are begging for help and many more have already given up. The goal is to light a flame to guide them through the darkness while they are on the path of self discovery. We can achieve anything together.

According to a representative, Virginia Foxx, Matthew Shepard's story of how he was murdered is false a hoax to be exact where her word choices. She continued by saying that the story was embellished by creating it into a hate crime act of violence. Foxx argued that he was in fact murdered because he was robbed. The truth is that Matthew Shepard was indeed murdered for being gay. The boys that did this horrible act lied to him and told them they were gay. In the end, they said that they murdered in for being gay. Judy Shepard stood up and didn't want to take their lives. She doesn't want any parent to go through the pain that she did.

http://hottopics.gay.com/2009/04/politician-describes-matthew-shepards-murder-as-hoax.html#more

I have posted a blog a few weeks ago asking if people would change being gay. I had an email that was sent to me in the early morning hours today asking me my oppinion. Since then, I have actually taken a look at www.sbministries.org where Stephen Bennett has claimed that the Bible and Lord has changed his sexuality and now he is straight. I don't know if it is true or not, but I do know how I feel. If there were a pill, or a way for me to change, I don't think I would. Not in this stage of the game. There was once a long time ago that I would have liked nothing better than to be straight or "normal". I probably would have taken the entire bottle of pills just to make sure. After many years, I learned that I am, in fact, normal. I am a person just like everyone else that happens to be gay. I believe in all my heart and mind, that I was born this way. That there is something in our genetics that determines our sexuality. I hope that his story is true and that he is living a life of happiness and did not just settle to make other people happy. I am happy being me. I am proud that I was able to take off the mask that I wore in shame of my sexuality for so many years.

That mask almost destroyed me. The truth is, I would not be the person I am today if I weren't gay. Taking away me being gay, would be taking away a part of who I am and what I have become. There were many obstacles with my sexuality and I am sure there will be more to come, but I am truly living my life being myself. In my opinion, I would be apt to think that Bennett's words are false or he is living a false life, but I don't know. I did not live it. He needs to live his life as he chooses, but going around feeding the fires and using that to "cure" other people is an outrage! It should be our choice . What is happening is parents are sending their children trying to cure them of being themselves. These poor children that don't have the right or voice to stand up for themselves. I might be going off the deep end, but why can't people just accept us for who we are. How does our lifestyle, marriages, and love affect someone's life any bit? I just don't understand! So, my question is: What do you think? Would you change your sexuality if you could?