John Barrowman, The Making of Me (2008)
I’m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I’ll probably fail, but here goes: John’s very secure in his sexuality. He’s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears that if he’d stayed in a country where homosexuality was illegal for most of the first part of his life, that he wouldn’t have survived.
And that’s why equal rights are so important.
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#but people still say their ‘opinion’ that gays are disgusting and should be criminalized #is not harmful at all if a man like John Barrowman whose entire existence has been one big happy ball of sunshine #that he has shared with the world believes he would have killed himself if he could not BE himself then what about all the others? #these things fucking matter hate is harmful it’s deadly your ‘opinion’ is shit (via @momentsofweakness)
This is why I get annoyed when seeing those comments of marriage equality being a pointless fight. Yes, compared to some injustices faces by gays, it may seem rather trivial. HOWEVER, equality has to be done in steps and, if gays aren’t even allowed to get married, how can we expect to treated equal in any other way? It is similar to Rosa Parks’ bus boycott. You could say that wanting to sit wherever you like on a bus was trivial in comparison to the problems black people faced in other parts of the world, but her work helped to accelerate the movement to end segregation. When it comes to equality, no win is trivial.