This video broke my heart. It’s the tortured innocence that young gay people experience every day that makes me be more out about me being gay than I feel comfortable with at times, so that maybe I can change things slightly for these children growing up. Yesterday when in Amsterdam I saw a young gay couple (late school-going age) who were out to dinner. Though I felt delight at seeing this for the first time ever (I think!), what I mostly felt was a terrible pain that I couldn’t have had those experiences growing up. Hopefully in the next generation, when kids get to adolescence they will be told that it’s ok to like anyone you want (even if they don’t like you back, sometimes) and nobody will be killed for asking someone to be their valentine.

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