Why I'm proud !

First of all I'd like to thank everyone for getting me over a 1000 views !! It may seem small but to me its a big deal !! :D THANK YOU :D

Ok so as I have already mentioned ,yesterday I had the most amazingly gay day of my life, I was at PRIDE bitches ! :D For those of you who have never been pride is basically a giant party (with a parade :P) to celebrate everything LGBT in society and to fight for further rights such as marriage and adoption for our community.

Emma, David and I being proud !!!

So we started off the day with no particular plans, just to march, nothing more, but on our way up to the start point (the garden of remembrance) we were asked to carry the flag !!! This is exciting because the flag is HUGE, its like 100 foot long and a whole street wide and requires 80 people to carry it and its just AMAZING. Sorry I is getting very excited but it was an unbelievable day !!! :D

Either side of this monumental flag where so many floats with double decker buses, trucks and cars carrying queers, drag queens and dykes galore having a fantastic time. The whole atmosphere was just so joyful that you couldn't help but get caught up in the madness of it. There was so much to see from half naked angels to drag brides on stilts to drunken messes like Feisty O'Reily that you could not help but dance and shout.

Just a random picture from Google Images that believe it or not I AM IN !! :D

So anyway I would most certainly encourage everyone to attend Pride next year but also to attend the march for marriage equality on what I am almost sure is August 12th in Dublin. Not to take things too seriously now but every person in this country should have the same rights as any other citizen so please come help us fight for ours.

Love is a human experience :)

Ok so today's post has to be about LGBT in modern society.

... Why ???
...... Cause I said so now shut up and let me continue !!
... Ok :'(
...... Oh don't cry !!! Wait let me explain :)

There are two very important reasons that today's subject must be so gay :P The first is that tomorrow I'm going to gay pride for the first time !!!!!! :D I'm soooooo bloody excited :D I'm wearing my mickey mouse glasses in they style of Lady Gaga's Paparazzi video and my converse boots and I just can't frickin wait !!

After living in the country side for so many years I've always experienced very conservative views on things such a sexuality with even the kindest people having problems with members of the LGBT community and I guess this is why Pride is so exciting !! Everyone will either be gay or will love us !! T'will be fantastically, orcasmically amazing !!! :)

Another reason I have to write about LGBT today is due to Anne Hathaway. Anne has always been such an inspiration to me and I have loved her for so many years that when I read the following extract from a speech made by Ms Hathaway I could not believe how lucky I was to have such an inspirational woman to look up to:

"In my household, being gay was, and is, no big deal. When my brother came out, we hugged him, said we loved him and that was that. Just for the record, we don’t feel that there is actually anything alternative about our family values. I don’t consider myself just an ally to the LGBT community, I consider myself your family. If anyone, ever, tries to hurt you, I’m going to give them hell. There are people who’ve said that I’m being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage and gay adoption. With all due respect, I’m humbly decent. I’m not being brave, I’m being a decent human being. Love is a human experience, not a political statement."

The line in this that genuinely nearly had me in tears was "I don’t consider myself just an ally to the LGBT community, I consider myself your family. If anyone, ever, tries to hurt you, I’m going to give them hell". Anne doesn't direct this at a vulnerable, weak or depressed group in society who needs her charity, she makes sure we are all aware that when she says this she is directing it at a free, open and beautiful group of people who sometimes need help in this unfair modern world.

This gives me hope. With celebrities and politicians like David Norris, Jane Lynch, Barack Obama, Chris Colfer, Mary Robinson, Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and so many others fighting for our rights soon the governments and people of this world will have to listen.

I know I've already ended a post with a quote from Born This Way this week but I fear I shall have to do it again:

"No matter gay, straight, or bi,

Lesbian, transgender life
I'm on the right track baby
I was born to survive."

We are all equal ........Apperantley

Have you ever heard of love ????? Its this kinda strong (always complicated) feeling we have for people or as wikipedia says "Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection."

Right so how do we know if were in love ???? Well according to my good friend Daithi its when you feel very strongly for someone for a long time (I guess your not a firm believer in love at first sight Daithi ;P) But is it ???? Thats not a rhetorical question because I'm honestley lost ???? I don't know !!!!!!!!!

So on one hand I'm in love with someone and have no idea what to do and on the other I'm not in love but feel i'd die if that person left. Fuck

Why can't we have LCRP (leaving cert relationship program) instead of LCVP (leaving cert vocational program). I mean being in love is a fundemental and basic part of life, its why we even exist, imagine if there was no love, we would never have been born, love is the thing that continues the human race for heaven sake !!!!!!!! So I think if they have a reason to teach maths in school don't thay have a reason to teach love ?????

I've seen so many relationships come and go (never been in one of them) in the 5 years since I started secondary school and only two out of countless have lasted any great amount of time. Some people are have been with 3 or 4 different people at this stage. So is there something wrong with me !!!!!!!!!!! Don't answer that :P

But the thing that annoys me more than anything is prejudice, and unfortunatley this sometimes leaks into the world. of love

Do you plan to get married when your older ???

Well it may suprise you to find out that some of our peers do not have the right to get married when they're older. Yeah...... do you know that guy or girl who sits beside you in maths or english or biology, the one that seems the exact same as you ???? Yeah well they may not have as many rights as you. How does it make you feel that in our "equal" society you have more rights than your friends and peers ???? (That is a rhetorical question :P)