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I have mixed emotions about the new Harvey Milk High School for homosexuals in New York City. I prefer to see gay students enjoy equal rights and equally safe space inside integrated public schools. But, I know my preference will not protect their spirits or skulls...In the real world, homosexuals are tortured daily in high schools all across America.

Teens typically bully and abuse varied peers. However, gaybashing is the only form of bullying that is sanctioned by law and frequently blessed by "God". Other victims are protected by faculty. Faculty members often encourage gaybashing with religious lies or even join teens as they bash gay students emotionally, verbally, and physically. Gay students are the only bullied students who are essentially told daily: "If God and Jesus were students here, they would beat/tease/reject/abuse your faggot/sissy/dyke ass too!!!...They are both gonna send you to hell after graduation too..."

I was deeply closeted as a teen to avoid such sheer torture. I lived a lie until I was 21. I attended a university at age 12. I buried my life and my gay secret inside textbooks for as long as possible...I was a coward. I admire all the out gay teens who are far braver than I was. I applaud those NYC administrators who reward their bravery with sanctuary rather than with slander and apathy.

I have heard arrogantly ignorant and uneducated gaybashers who do not even know who Harvey Milk is dare to feign a valid opinion on this topic. Typically, most are pseudo-christians who are closeted homosexuals. These hypocritical idiots dare to argue that public tax dollars should not be used to fund this high school. Simultaneously, these fools dare to demand that public funds be used to urge public politicos to fashion bigoted laws that adhere to their own twisted and hateful religious beliefs. Are gay teens not public citizens also? Do their heterosexual/homosexual parents not pay taxes? As always, special rights are equal rights for despised people...

Public schools should be safe for all students irrespective of their sexuality. What other options are any of these gaybashers offering to these gay students? None!!! They could not care less.

We homosexuals are who we are born to be. We have the right to an equal and public education in a safe place. I wish every public school had an out gay faculty member. All children begin to explore and express sexuality long before high school. All of them need and deserve positive role models, especially the homosexual ones.

For the record, the cultural war over homosexuality is over. We homosexuals won that war. We beat the biblical gaybashers by studying their own bible. We beat the biological idiots by forcing them to study the universal science of sexuality. And, in NYC, we beat the gaybashing bullies by forcing them to study alone. This is why gaybashers in 2003 sound exactly like frantic racists in 1953. Those racists became just as rabid when they knew that blacks would no longer endure rabid racism. The gaybashers know that we homosexuals are also no longer enduring their heterosexist hatred and biblical lies. Our wars have just begun....and we will win them all!!!

Success is the best revenge. Racial integration has proven that integration is often deeply flawed. We all now know that separation can indeed be equal and even superior. Like gender segregation, sexual segregation may lead to superior academic performance. Many of us homosexuals are intellectually gifted overachievers. I would love for these gay students to compare ETS scores with the gaybashers they ditched very soon...

Kudos to NYC for being humane enough to protect gay students from gaybashers in academia. NYC is living in the new millennium. Let us hope and pray that the rest of the world stops lagging behind NYC ASAP...

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