I'm Gay

I'm me, plain and simple.  I'm proud of what I am.
You could call me gay, lesbian, bisexual. Even pansexual, because in the end gender doesn't really matter does it? It's love that matters. What's inside that counts the most.  Every so often people come up to me, and question my sexuality, they ask "Are you gay?" I say yes. Because I am gay. But I don't believe in gender, but having to explain that every day, just gets boring. So I just say I'm gay.

It's simple,  I like boys AND girls, big deal. It's life, it's perfectly normal. I have feelings for girls and sometimes, boys as well. It's my choice in this thing called life. Yet, people discriminate because it's "wrong" and "unnatural."
But from a young age I got taught "Be what you want be and love whoever you want. Be proud of what you are." That's what my parents told me, and their happy with my choices in life. As long as I'm happy, they don't try to change me.

I'm 14 years young. I'm young, but I'm not that young, I can make important decisions in my life.

But apparently some people say I'm "to young" to:
Fall in love,
Decide what I want to be,
Know what I am; gay, straight, bisexual.
But I'm not too young.

I go to a mixed school, boys and girls. And my school is filled full of different people, straight and gay. But full of homophobes and homophobic thoughts as well. People don't like people who are "different" to them, especially kids, and especially in high school.
I first realized I liked both boys and girls when I was crushing on a girl, one of my close friends. I thought about kissing her, and her lips against mine, her body against mine. I didn't tell her of course, I just thought it was a phase and that it would pass. But no. Another crush on a another girl, but then I had a couple of boyfriends and I thought okay, I'm straight. But I was wrong again, I got a girlfriend. Things didn't work out quite so well. But then, I got another girlfriend, my current girlfriend, of 6months who I love so much.

Yeah, I'm in love with a girl. Girls can fall in love with girls, and boys can fall in love with boys. It's just like a man and a woman being in love, apart from the fact it's of the same sex. I have lots of gay friends, male and female but I have straight friends as well. And they accept me. And to be honest, each one of my friends, no matter what their sexuality is, are amazing. Gay people are just like everybody else, normal.

Us kids can be whatever we want to be. We can love whoever we want, and we can be whatever we wish.
We can decide who to love because it's OUR life, not anybody else's. Only we can control it, not our parents, teachers or friends. We make our own choices in life. Being gay or lesbian isn't a fashion statement, or a fad you can just follow, it's what people actually are. And we aren't gay just because we think it's cool. We're gay, because we are gay and we don't pretend, we're not fake.

People in the world should respect everyone else's choices, and if you don't like them? Then it's tough, your problem. Keep discrimination and opinions to yourself.

Gay Pride is the future. Cos the times are changing, and you'll have to accept people for what they are and what they want to be. Otherwise, you'll get left behind in the past.