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"I genuinely believe that no-one can live a lie and not have that lie be toxic. And that toxicity will spread throughout everything they do, and everyone they come into contact with. When societal pressure forces the lie, then the toxicity will spread throughout society." -- sami, 2010-09-22 [found via link from a friend's f-locked entry]

"Do you have any idea what it's like to be the a subject of debate and editorial in your school's newspaper?" -- rm, "just because I didn't kill myself, doesn't mean I didn't feel like I was dying", 2010-09-30

"I spent the summer working and staying late at the office to write letters in secret to the campus administration begging to get my scholarship back. I would be denied it for one semester, but if I did well enough, I could have it back. I was out of the honors program though, and I should be grateful because the school was under no obligation to protect me from incidents that had happened because of something that was my own fault -- being gay and harming another student's studies by the stress it caused them to be exposed to my lifestyle." -- ibid.

"I've been harassed because someone started a rumour that I was a lesbian. I'm not, and I know it was only a small taste of what some people have gone through, but it still made an impact on me. I'm sorry anyone has to go through it." -- kallaneboi, commenting on the above, 2010-09-30

"And this is why queer issues are everyone's issues." -- rm, replying to kallaneboi