What Do We Get?

I went into school today for English revision. Mrs Hook was taking it, so it was obvious before I went that we’d be doing no revision and chatting the whole time; which as it turned out was the case. We got to talking about prom, and who was going with who, and if people had got dresses and whatnot. This quickly turned into wedding talk and baby talk (mainly ’cause Miss was preggers when she got married).

This got me thinking. Everyone is born with certain expectations of their life. These are set not only by parents, but also by society. People are expected to: get married, have kids and die — certainly this was the case for me and Mother Dearest even said she’d be upset if I told her I’m gay as she wants lots of grandchildren. This isn’t possible for everyone? Only those who are straight and aren’t shunted by society.

What do we get? Fuck all; that’s what. We’re told that being gay, bisexual, lesbian, or transsexual is wrong. We suffer immense confusion, and when we finally get the courage to come out we get fucked over again. We can’t get married (civil partnership is not the same, no matter how you glamourise it). We can’t have children (sure surrogacy, adoption - none of that is the same as making a baby with the man or woman you love).

Regardless of whether you want to get married, have children, or whatever; the fact that it cannot happen for gay people makes it seem as though we’re still second class citizens.

Fuck you.