Stand_Up

Stand Up Stand Up For many years, and still even today people are blind to the fact that homosexuality exists in the rule areas of the U.S. The affect of the blindness of rural America we come to believe that on one is like us. So we reject ourselves, believe what other people tell us about ourselves, we confine our thoughts and feelings into a corner where we fester and eat at ourselves. Researchers at the Massachusetts Department of Education have found that 46% of homosexual youth attempt suicide, which is insanely high when you set 8.8% of heterosexual youth side by side. I come from a very religious background six years of catholic schooling then attended 4 more years of catholic religion classes, I also was a C.Y.O (Catholic Youth Organization) member, where homosexuality is a taboo. As I progressed to my seventh grade year, I began to notice that the guys on the football team were a whole lot more attractive than the cheerleaders. Later that year I was required to attend the sexual education class where they discussed briefly about homosexuality, and where the school exaggerated how it was the #1 way to get an homosexuals, homosexuality, gay, people, about, out, just, i’m, youth, year, stand, one, hey, years, told, through, thought, self, school, ourselves, mother, know, friends, education, come, catholic, came, began, way, two, towards, together, time, talking, sexual