Is it wrong who I am???

Those that look down on people simply because of sexual orientation generally aren't worth giving the time of day anyway (some people may disagree with your lifestyle, but belittling you, even to themselves, is wrong).

Be proud of who you are and love who you choose to love. Like you said, your actions aren't affecting them. While they may not agree with you, they have no right to try to make you change.

-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Me and my girlfriend dealt with crap like that. Don't let them get to you. Be happy with who you are and love yourself. It becomes much easier when you love yourself. Everything else the looks, the whispers, the leers, glares, and even violence in my case becomes a figment once you love yourself and your girl or like her enough to deal with the world.

"I think therefore, I am DANGEROUS!!!!"

I don't know what age you are, linduh, but I think that it's harder to high schoolers to accept differences, and even more for middle schoolers. By the time these people have reached college they've grown considerably, and I don't mean vertically.

Yesterday in acting class we were doing something called "internal monologues". This is where you pretend to confront someone in your life and tell them what you need from them. There was one guy who got up there and seemed to be talking to a parent, and then I realized he was asking for this parent to accept him for who he was. He literally "came out" during class and admitted he was bisexual. And the part that amazed me the most was the fact that I didn't care. It didn't change how I looked at him, and I'm glad that this is something that doesn't bother or affect me in anyway because now I can show him the kind of unbiased respect any person deserves.

Love yourself. Love your girlfriend. Tell everyone else to get bent.

percivale

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"They think that people like me are not human and that we dont belong in this world."

In most cases you are not dealing with 'thought' in those people. You are seeing a result of their emotional reaction or feelings. Society teaches this type prejudice less thoroughly than it once did, but it exists still. Just as Gay or bisexual people do not choose their orientation, neither do heterosexual people choose theirs. What is sexually exciting and beautiful to one can be revolting to the other. Neither had to choose to be the way they are.

If it makes you 'mad' that they do not like your preference you have a valuable insight into how they feel about yours. They are wrong if they do anything to interfere with your freedom, as you would be wrong to interfere with theirs. Expressing how you feel when you are confronted with their feelings is the best way to handle it, but try to be respectful of their feelings as you would like them to respect yours. Venting frustrations in such a situation may be tempting, but a mature friendly informative tact will benefit the problem more.

Our culture is in a transitional period of recognizing rights long denied on the basis of sexual orientation. It appears inevitable that we will all be more open minded and educated with regard to these issues some day. On an individual level we all have an impact on how soon this is achieved.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
-William Blake

It confuses me so much when guys think it's wrong that I like girls.

I mean, come on. Boobs. Pretty much every male will admit boobs are awesome. So why is it suddenly so horrible for a girl to agree with that? :(