So you may have notice that right there to the right of this post is a little section of quotes. These are quotes I like or find funny. I really like having them there and feel like they let you know even more about my personality, the stuff I find interesting or funny. I am constantly updating them, due to reading new books and current events. Well recently due to Prop h8 passing I decided that there really needed to be some queer quotes added to them and I added some poignant ones, some funny ones and a few that I thought were both. After doing this I went on with my blogging and posting what I posted.

This afternoon I got an email from a woman who claims to be “a long time reader” who was emailing me cause she felt “offended and put off”. I was curious on why this was and began to read her email, well it turns out that she hit upon one of those quotes and she felt that I was preaching homosexuality at her via the quotes. the quote was the following one by Harry Benjamin

“If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.”

I was kinda left unable to respond for a few minutes and was finally able to respond with the following:

“I’m Queer, that is who I am, the quote that seems to offend you is what I see as an accurate description of the matter at hand. I’m sorry you have been offended by the quote appearing at my blog, but I have never once hidden my identity or the fact that I am queer from my blog. If homosexuality offends you so much please don’t return to my blog because to continue to read it would be hypocrisy because I am a homo and that is just a fact of my life.”

Even now writing this blog post, I have a hard time understanding that I got that email. I mean I get my fair share of nasty emails from people who find my site and are right wing Christians (not generalizing here those are the people who I actually got emails from) and get offended just because I’m queer. This woman tho she had been reading my blog for the past 8 months she said and was fine reading about all the different aspects of my life except when a random quote on my site(which could have just as easily been a Terry Prachett or Douglas Adams quote) spoke about my queerness she too offense to that.

I guess I just don’t understand people who like only portions of you. They like you cause your a knitter and young and funny but WOAH NELLY you gay, they can’t talk to you no more. It’s like finding out your friend who you have been hanging out with wear contact lenses andyou saying “Oh I can’t be friend swith you now that I know you wear contact lenses, I don’t believe the are morally right” It just all in the end comes down to the fact that some people are locked down into their beliefs and that is that. They will never get to know the pure joy of not caring what religion/ethnicity/status/sexuality a person is, instead just getting to know them.