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.
This is over 2k notes now. I just want to thank all of you for sharing.
#okay but #understanding this can be the difference between ‘tolerating’ gays and getting on board with gay rights #i mean like this is literally how i changed my mind and became a good person #i realize that people kill themselves over this shit #because someone blogged about it #normally i am really critical of social justice posts #because they’re just sort of #’reblog this if you want to continue doing nothing helpful but get to feel like some kind of ally’ #but it’s not all pointless (via goes-pop)