My response to Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project.
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About Me
- Nick Wheeler
- I'm gay. I used to be Mormon. I write about that here. I also write (or vlog!) about whatever else happens to be on my mind. Sometimes I post creative projects. If you want them or something similar for yourself or someone you love, email me, because I love money.
Thanks for posting this! Didn't know about your blog until I saw your response on Youtube.
ReplyDeleteI'm still in awe of your courage. To come out and tell people who you are is an incredibly scary thing... especially growing up in the Mormon community. I think if more people had friends like you and personally knew gay people who were good and decent and talented, they wouldn't be so scared and ignorant about it.
ReplyDeleteSo good for you. You are a very inspiring person.
I like Karen's phrase "if more people had friends like you"... I think if more people had friends like you, Nick, the world would be SUCH a more loving and unlonely place!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'm betting, it'd be more laughy, too.
"Life's hard. It's a real bitch sometimes. But everyday it gets better..." God I love that. That feels like such a hopeful, necessary message; everyone needs to hear that it--WHATEVER "it" is--gets better. And I so wish for people that they find ways to move out of self-hatred and into trusting their own inner knowing, over wrongheaded crap they've been taught. AND I SO VERY MUCH wish that EVERYONE could make a public proclamation and be CHEERED by a crowd of strangers! (How awesome is that?!) And know that others are going to be behind them.
But, ya know? I'm thinking that a major reason others are behind you is because you're open and honest and kind and brave, so it's hard not to be behind you. It'd be a better test is you were more tedious and irritating.
Although maybe I'm wrong? Maybe other people are really drawn to hateful, angry people who advocate a world of intolerant, compassionless, survival-of-the-unkindest? (I suppose, to be perfectly honest, that I find you extra compelling and insightful-seeming because you think and feel so many things I agree with UTTERLY and COMPLETELY.)
Anyway--even if it's (embarassingly) merely 'cuz I want more people who completely agree with me--I think there should definitely be more people like you.
Also, even if there's no rational reason for it, since we've never (technically) even met--I'm proud of you.