Everyonce in awhile people, whom I have never met, will read my blog and either make comments or email me. I think it's kind of cool that random people read it and find some information interesting, or even sometimes helpful to their lives.
Very rarely have I had someone write who had either a negative thing to say or was mean in anyway. Never have I had someone who wrote me asking if I wanted to convert away from my gay ways.
Oh yes she did!
This lady wrote me after reading my story, "How I Contracted HIV," written back in May of 2008. At first she wrote and said that she thought it was really well written and seemed to appreciate the entry. Then I wrote back, thanking her. She wrote again, this time a longer email, about how she had been working with a NGO in Kenya with people living with HIV/AIDS and so she wanted to hear more stories about others living with HIV/AIDS and then came across my blog entry. I thought that was really cool and wrote back again.
Then she wrote this email:
I know this question is rather personal and you dont have to reply, but, do you like your life, being gay i mean, or would you like to 'convert'? No, im not hitting on you, I have a fiance, but im a christian and I know there is a better life for you and I want to talk to you about it and get you in touch with some people, just to talk.I wrote back, simply:
Please dont be offended. Please think about it.
Hi ***** (omitting her name, no, it wasn't Michele Bachmann)I don't want to make this entry too long, I just wanted to share this email with others because I know there are young gay men, lesbian women, bisexual men and women, men who were born into the body of a woman and feel like they want to change that physical body, women who were born with an annoying penis and want to change that (smile), women who aren't sure if they like women or men or both, men with these feelings too, and on.
I love my life as a man who loves men. It's the way our Creator intended on me to be.
Best to you
Andrew
I grew up in a "Christian" household. I put Christian in quotes because I don't believe it's the way of the Christian God to demoralize, look down on, or judge others. We, whether we are Christian or have any other religious/spiritual belief (or none), really need to just find the love, compassion, and respect for our fellow people.
When I wrote this woman back I really didn't have much to say, but I wanted to write that simple email. I actually wasn't angry, if it were 10 years ago I may have been. I think I wasn't angry because I have come a long way in loving myself. Loving myself as a man who happens to love men... and because of other, frankly more important, characteristics.
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1 comments:
Good one Drew. My first thought was: "Uh-Uh, No she didn't!" (in a very black woman kind of way. You know, with the whole rolling the eyes-ma-thingy and the snapping of the neck) How are you gon' come on somebodies blog and show yo'... hmmm. BAAABY! LOL. However, when I reached the bottom I realized just how entertaining this actually is. This woman starts a conversation, engages and invests in it for what, about a week or two??? Only to ask in a very "churched way", would you like to be a Christian. She's AG I bet. LOL... G-D sure knows who to send and unto whom to send them honey; cause' this little ol' AA boy would've responded back--full of the spirit--in all types of tongues. She wouldn't have known what to do except for to hold on to her pearls. Yes indeed. I don't get why people do that... as if one person or one type of community has G-D linked on a chain to control unto whom DIVINE goes and where... As if G-D is religions mascot. We seriously as ONE people need to get this spiritual thing together. **sidenote: Why--as I am responding to this post--does my mother comes into the living room and turns of the TV... Nope, not the news my friend... She has turned on Creflo Dollar. Why??? I'm about to go on a run before I throw up and ruin this nice satin pillow on this couch. Pray for me and thanks for sharing.
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