This blog is an inspiration from my best friend who has not only taught me what love is, but that as long as it’s love its LOVE, period. Think about your first love. Think about the many or few after that. Bring yourself back to the moment you met them. Bask for a moment in your first kiss with them.
Doesn’t it feel amazing? Isn’t this feeling one of the things that makes life worth living? Aren’t these moments the ones we cherish and hold onto for our lifetimes?
We all want love. Most of us want it to last forever.
Now imagine that because of this love, you were ostracized by others. Imagine being tormented online or in the streets for nothing more than WHO you love. Imagine not being able to marry your ONE TRUE LOVE.
What kind of life would that be? Living in love in the shadows. Being undeniably attracted to that person and not being able to share it to the world.
Moments cherished in hiding.
This is what so many endure in the LGBTQ+ community. There are still many places in the United States where people are treated obscenely. Places where love is treated with disgust or hate.
Can you imagine? What it would feel like to have finally found love in a world full of hate, only to have to deny the full potential of that love because of others.
Though we as a country have come a long way, we still have many states, cities, schools, apartment communities, housing districts, and neighbors that want to rid the LGBTQ+ community of their human right to love. Let all of our voices be louder than theirs.
Let us stand for love, because if we are lucky enough to have found it, no one should ever be able to take it away.
Sereniti Sparkles 