My name is Stacye Camareri,
and I'm a bisexual female.
I had a girlfriend and
I posed it to my mother as my "friend."
And I said, "you realize like she's not
just my friend I like like her."
And my mother turned and looked at me and said,
"I wasn't born yesterday"
she says, I see the way she looks at you and the
way you look at her."
And the conversation ended
there was no adversity or no
"I don't want this for you"
"are you sure about this?"
That was pretty awesome my mother's a
very strong Christian woman I didn't
know how she would feel about that and
there was no opposition there was no hate
there was no "I don't want this for you"
it was just acceptance of
I already see it
I already know
and okay.
Pridefest, the Pride Parade
it was actually just this last year
there were religious people shouting
hate and things that God hates homosexuals
and you're all going to hell
things that we've all heard whether were
gay, straight or otherwise.
Religion plays a huge part in every person's life
whether you choose not to have a
religion or you choose to practice religion.
I was brought up in the church
I was brought up in a Catholic slash Baptist home.
What they're preaching is
yes there's Old Testament there are
verses facing against homosexuality
I walked over to them and I said you're
forgetting that there are other things
in that old testament that we don't practice anymore.
We don't practice not eating pork
women are not supposed to pray when they're unclean
woman's are supposed to cover their heads when they pray
and we don't practice those things because if
you're going to quote the Bible
which I have no issue with
you have to look at the New Testament as well
Jesus came and he changed a lot of those rules
he tore the veil
we don't have to go to somebody as an
interceptor anymore to reach God
we can go pray and worship directly to Jesus
and Jesus' only commandment was
"love thy neighbor as thyself"
period
we as humans tend to throw
that in as ourselves because of her own
personal beliefs or personal past experiences
that was very close to home
for me because I was
raised in a Christian home with a Christian foundation
if you're going to throw religion into it
you're picking pieces apart
you have to look at it as a whole
that's what I tried to convey to them
of course he didn't listen, but that's ok you know
that's his right as well
his voice was heard
my voice was heard
and maybe he will go back five minutes later
five days later
five years later
remember that maybe that will change
that person or that 50 people that were
standing there or the police officer
that was standing there next to him
I may not have touched the person that was
speaking I may have touched somebody else and
make them think about it.
I did not have a very close relationship
with my mother growing up
I'm very different than
everyone in my family in that I'm very
strong-willed and I'm very opinionated
and I was never a follower
my mother, being raised extremely
very close-knit Christian Baptist
my mother's never been in trouble
never done drugs
doesn't drink
never even had a parking ticket
she doesn't look at somebody's color of their skin
she doesn't look at their sexual orientation
she just looks at someone who they are as a person
how they act
how they treat others
how they conduct their lives
Are they responsible ?
Are they kind?
Hate is something that taught
she was taught hate
she chooses not to live that
one of the things that I've learned in this life is
that you have to be true you are and
when you're not true to who you are and
you're suppressing something that is a
major part of who you are you're going
to be miserable in so many aspects and
it's going to be psychologically damaging.
If you're in a home that your
parents don't agree with who you are
they don't like it
I feel for you
if you can't talk at home about it to
siblings or parents or aunts, uncles ,grandma, grandpa
there's somebody that's willing to listen
and let you be who you are
you have teachers you have a LGBTQ Center in
your area that you can look to
you may have a counselor at school
you may have a friend's parent
and you need to talk to them
and you need to talk about who you are
and you need to let your voice be heard
you are important and you are
an important factor in this world
and you play a key role
you're put here for a reason
and you were put here the way you are for a reason
and once you accept that,
the people around you are going to
accept that whether they agree with it or not
and you're going to love that and
you're going to love your life.
This is for parents whether you suspect
that your child is LGBTQ
or you know
your guidance and your thoughts and your opinions
are projected onto your child
they are who they are
you're not making any kind of a mistake
unless you're pushing your child away
trying to make them something else that they're not.
I am a mother of a child who died at the age of 20
she didn't commit suicide
she was not part of the LGBTQ community
other than having a mother who is.
I can tell you that losing a child is something that I
want no one in this world to ever experience
and pushing a child away or
trying to make them something that
they're not could push a child into death or suicide.
You need to protect that child with
everything you are just don't take that
risk of losing your child in any way shape or form
just love them and embrace them
because they're pretty amazing and
they're going to make you proud.
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