National Coming Out Day (My story of my loving uncle)

I have no been blogging as much because of the amount of free time I have been devoting to my other projects. Included are my slave creative relationship with Payton Graham. He continues to need more creative input and I continue to have mild spurts.

But today I wanted to write about something, which for this blog is very different. I have tried very hard to keep my social media clean of controversial material. Through twitter and Facebook I keep my political, religious, and personal beliefs to myself. It is my view that I have nothing to add to those topics. If you agree with me great, and if you don’t, you never will. Those topics I love to discuss in person and not through text on the Internet. This blog has been free of that, as well as the podcast. My one slip is my love of evolution has stepped on some toes, but no one is perfect.

But today is National Coming Out Day. And I wanted to write something to show my support for the LGBT community. There are very few things that I feel absolute about, I believe everything is debatable. It is my love of science that makes any topic susceptible to scrutiny and experimentation. But where I stand strong is civil rights and support for all humans.

I don’t tell many personal stories, but this one today, needs to be told. The influences in my life have always been important to me. My Uncle Bob stands very tall in that list. He was a man who gave me part of my sarcastic sense of humor, and a man who taught me that life is a long joke and to laugh every day at it. My uncle was a gay man, and according to my family was always that way. He and his partner use to take me to the fair every year and treated my sister and I line we were his children. His influence showed me at the youngest age that LGBT are nothing but members of our families.

When my Uncle got very sick and close to death, it was only through the love of my family did his partner get to be a viable part of the decision process. If my mother and aunts and uncles had been less accepting, this wonderful man would have been left on the outside while he watched his love pass away. Nobody knew my uncle’s wishes better than his partner, and it was a shame to me that IF my family had not been as accepting his wishes would not have been met.

It is important to me that any gay person to stand out and let this around them know who they are and to accepted on who they are. It was only through my uncle that I got to see inside the heart of a gay man and see it no different than any other family member I had. It made me more aware of the injustice they go through. He was a wonderful person first and I am proud of my uncle. Gay or not.

There are Very few political views that I hold stedfast to. Tax laws are open for debate by experts. But I hold two close to my heart. I will not vote for any man or woman that does not believe in evolution, and I will not vote for anybody that doesn’t support FULL rights for LGBT. People can quote bible verse at me or some discredited study but I don’t care. I have tried so very hard in my life to not let subjective experiences shape objective decisions. But on this topic there is too much emotion. My uncle deserved every right that I am afforded today. My uncle deserved to have his wishes met at his death.

Please stand up in your life. Teach your children that LGBT members are not just people, but they are part of our families. And don’t let people get away with hyperbole about their lives.

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