I Am Not a Lightning Rod for Your Hatred

Homophobia? Really?? Right in front of my Pride month?

Photo by Luis Quintero on Unsplash

The strange thing about having slurs lobbed at you in public is that you never truly get used to it. You can reclaim them amongst you and your friends. You can attempt to desensitize yourselves to the sting. You can do everything under the sun to blunt the hatred that’s behind those words.