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I am sincerly sorry to hear that something like that would have happend to you.
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The problem really is that my experiences are not unique. And comparatively, they're minor. After all, I'm alive. I don't even have any scarring from them trying to burn me because I was better at untying the knots than they were at tying them and I got away with just a ruined pair of shoes and jeans. I know people and I know of people who have endured far far worse than anything that has happened to me, things that make me sick to the pit of my stomach just thinking about them. It it was just me, if I was just unlucky enough to be in the wrong places all those times, and no one else was being treated that way for being who they are instead of pretending to be someone else, well, that would be a tragedy for me but nothing worth getting angry over or even doing something about. But I don't ever want to have to go to another funeral of someone who was killed for being gay or non-Christian or a different skin color from the majority of their community, and as long as I can fight to keep it from happening, I will.
