The Slowness and Difficulty of Change for the LGBTQIA+ Community
This essay examines why change for the LGBTQIA+ Community comes so slowly and, at times, so painfully.
In previous essays, I have examined why change, in general, comes so slowly and, at times, so painfully. I am writing about it again. Maybe I am having a hard time, once again, changing myself and my beliefs for the better (or are they changing for the worse)? Either way, I hope these changes in myself are for the better as I continue to grow and examine who I am and what I believe.
In the not too distant past, I realized that even though I am a gay man, I hold prejudices, biases against my own gay community; in effect in some ways I am a homophobe. If I look very closely, I can see that parts of me are still also racist, ageist, sexist, and more!
One reason change in societal/cultural beliefs is so difficult is that from the beginning of life, we grow up as children who do not realize that we have the power to choose to believe or not believe what we hear and see.
Parents, grandparents, relatives, teachers, friends, priests, as well as strangers — the ones who were responsible for so many of our beliefs from a very early church/school attending age — tell/told us that homosexuality is a…
