Questions Straight People Ask Me: Aren't You Afraid of Growing Old Alone?

Who said I was alone?  I have family and friends.  Have you seen the old people in the Home for the Aged?  They had families too.  There is no guarantee that just because you have children, someone will automatically take care of you when you grow old.  It's just a matter of tit for tat.  If you were a lousy person when you were young and treated everyone around you badly, nobody will take care of you when you get old, unless you pay for them to do so.  But I think if you gave love when you were young, there will be someone out there with a big heart who will take care of you when you are old - whether they be family or not. 

Questions Straight People Ask Me: Aren't You Afraid of God?

When I was younger, after all that bombardment in Catholic school and in church that gay people will go to hell, I couldn't understand how a God that's supposed to be and good kind would even bother to create gay people.  Why not create all of us straight and heterosexual so we gay people won't have to grapple with all these emotions as we grow up! 

And then, I realized, the problem was not with God - He with the omnipotent capacity to love and forgive.  The problem was with the people around me - the religious intolerant, the hypocrites who preach love but are quick to judge those who are unlike them.  And then I began to realize, God doesn't hate me.  I have done nothing despicable against anyone.  It is these other people I should be wary about - those who spread hate just because we are different, because we are in the minority, because we show them that we are also capable of loving and caring for other people like them.