Gay Basher

Dear Homophobe,

I recently had the pleasure of an encounter with you while waiting at a bus stop. You drove past with the window down and yelled ‘poofter’, then made an obscene finger gesture at me. Now, before I go on, allow me to describe you based on the three cowardly seconds you spent in my vague presence.

You have a face permanently contorted in a hideous expression of rage and hate and a mouth that you use to express these feelings to anyone who is forced to listen. You wear clothes that are frankly revolting because you are too ignorant to realise that something like fashion and good hygiene not only exists but is appealing to the general public when applied correctly. You also have an unfortunate pre-disposition to accompanying your devastatingly uninformed opinions with the only useful application you have found for your hands, which you refer to simply as The Finger.

Now let’s explore the reasons that you chose to apply your wealth of intelligence to screaming a single word at me. I have consulted with the Internet regarding this and we have come up with a couple of reasons as to why you might have done this. You are either a run-of-the-mill bigot or a repressed homosexual bigot. Ordinary bigots are like the common cold. Easily transmitted, mildly annoying when one person suffers from it and insufferable when many people do. Repressed homosexual bigots are the most upsetting for me, because you are perpetuating the very reason that you are so angry in the first place; hate. Now, I can hear you, because I am listening to what you’re saying and you’re telling me that I can’t change you and that you were born this way. You are probably aware that this is one of the many rational arguments used by supporters of homosexuality the world over; one that you disagree with time and time again by attempting to cure homosexuality with prayer and excessive masturbation over straight porn (the latter of which, as a side note, is half gay). Now, I don’t for a moment assume that you have any interest in or could even understand an argument on nature vs nurture, but I will say this. Homosexuality is not a choice. Bigotry is.

But this is all a bit hi-falutin for you, so I will take this back to a more personal, easier to understand scale. When you drove past me and attempted to make me feel bad about myself by screaming an obscenity and flipping me the bird, you triggered a number of reactions. I was surprised at first, that you had managed to correctly identify my sexual preference. I was then incredibly, blindingly angry at myself for not having yelled something equally derogatory back at you like ‘fuck you, you motherfucking cunt’. I then entered into an intense couple of minutes of self-debate on the concept of evil begetting evil and the validity of the ‘eye for an eye’ system. I, and so many of my fellow homosexuals have been told over and over by friends, family and world leaders that we should just ignore you, like a schoolyard bully. That we should take the higher ground (somewhere it seems you will never reach) and fight fire with water. And I understand this, I do. But I am 28 years old. I have been physically and emotionally abused for being a gayboy faggot poofter cocksucker by you and everyone you know since I can remember and I am sorry but I am fucking sick of it. If given the opportunity, I want beat your face in with whatever implement I can find around me. I want to do this until I have mashed your face into the ground so that you can never scream any of those words at anyone ever again. I want to crush every bone in your body until you can barely breathe, let alone make a finger or a fist. Then I want to gather further weapons and go to your home and do the same thing to every single one of your family and friends until someone apologises to me for the lifetime of hatred you have poured on me.

But I won’t do these things. And do you know why, Homophobe? Because I am not like you. I am intelligent and compassionate and understanding and I know that even though you can change and not be a bigot, you may not have the knowledge, surroundings or support to do so, so I forgive you. I will continue to combat you by putting aside my rage because I know that eventually I will win and you will become less ignorant and that you will apologise.

I hope you seriously consider this gauntlet, Homophobe because the times? They are a-changin.

Adrik