[Caramel Flan]

I have dealt with things like that. Well, not the Star Trek. But, it just kind of upsets me. One of my guy friends was called a faggot because he was joking around and insulting his friend and he told him, "Regardless of how weird you are, I accept you as you are." I was really upset about it. Since when did telling someone that you accept them as they are deserves the title "faggot"? Made no sense to me.

An example would be this one guy in our band was openly homosexual, I accepted him, and my guy friend actually TALKED to him quite often and tried to befriend him. We didn't care if he was gay or straight a friend is a friend to us. We were riding the bus home from a game once and the two people behind us were talking about him. Not negatively, well it seemed. Because the one guy was telling someone that the poor kid moved cause people were bullying him because he was gay and whatnot and they agreed that it wasn't right to bully someone because of that. The same kid then started saying that he didn't get how a dude could like a dude. It's not that hard to feel attracted to someone of any gender to tell you the truth. Another thing, though, last year we had two lesbians in our band. I really knew one and ended up being friends with her and whatnot, the other one I just knew her name and everyone was really kind to him, but the gay guy I was talking about earlier was being made fun of behind his back. I did say something, but it didn't do much. Before they could be punished, the kid moved away.

And one more thing, at our first regular season football game we went to a school in Mississippi and saw two cross-dressed men dancing to us playing "Dynamite" and "All I Do Is Win". Everyone was laughing and whatnot and our band director was "in shock". I was just like, "Shoo, let them dudes dance. They are dancing cause they know we sound good." But, whatever. People are going to hate. I find it ironic how girls can see past homosexual or cross-dressed men, most of the time and hate on lesbians and guys can see past lesbians and crack gay jokes all the time. Can't we all be friends?