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In Love and War By Paige Gilmar
Photo by Heather Mount
It seems strange to make war out of love--a perfect paradox, really. In human beings, love makes life--it makes us. To see love as an enemy would be waging war against ourselves, our humanity. Yet, man has fought against his kind for many millennia by his cruel dissection of the species, dividing mere people into races, genders, and sexualities. Though these labels are worn like cultural lapels today, its original creation in history was to isolate and ostracize, providing justification for such societal cancers as Social Darwinism and eugenics. But like the mad surgeon who amputates his own limbs, dividing the body of humanity is Trend Privé Magazine
How the Trevor Project Battles Against Modern-Day Homophobia its own self-sabotage. By sewing stereotypes onto beating hearts, by casting individuals in and out of groups like dreams down a drain, we undermine humanity’s greatest power and most profound beauty: our diversity. While we inch our way towards all-inclusive equality at a snail’s pace and have made stunning progress in recent years, people that fall through the chasms of the self-entitled “neurotypical white heterosexual” are still shamed, with some
hoping they will bury their identities like a ghastly corpse in a grave. With prejudice and hatred swirling about the twenty-first century in a blizzard of ignorance, people of the LGBTQ+ community are particularly at risk. According to the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI), there is a strong link between sexual orientation and suicidal behavior, with gay and lesbian youths 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population. attempt suicide than the general population. The rate of suicide is especially staggering for transgender youths, with 32% to 50%
