I really want people to contribute to this, so I am going to bump it up.

I don't get it either. For as long as I can remember my family has been open and honest and accepting people for who they are. It wasn't until I was almost out of high school that I figured out that people did these kinds of things to each other each and every day, for something as silly as who a person chooses to be with. I've gone off on long rants to friends who have told me that a person can't be bisexual, they're just being selfish or they just can't make up their mind.

I cried watching this, because all I wanted to do was give that girl a hug and tell her that everything would be alright. It made me so terribly sad and angry to see how many kids get treated that way because of something that wasn't their choice to make.

This is very well done video.

I've never experienced something such as this but my sister and mother still refuse to acknowledge that I did in fact have a relationship with a girl when I was in high school.

I don't tell my family anything about my life anymore. If sending my sister a picture of a reply to one of my texts because she refused to use her phone to send me a picture of one of her animals illicits a "you're weird" comment from her, I'd hate to know what she thought about the rest of my personality. I just stay away from her.

It's never going to be easy to go against the norms of a family or society but if it's something you want, no one should ever stand in your way. (Within reason of course. No one is allowed to dangle babies from balconies or use a position of authority to corrupt a child, but we aren't talking about that.)

I just keep to myself and say "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke".

I don't know if I can watch it. I have a friend who was kicked out for being gay. I'm assuming that is what this is about?

It makes me so angry. People who identify as GLBT as so common in my life and in my children's lives that I can't even imagine why people don't understand that it's just part of being human. And being tolerant.

I hope they got an A from their film teacher! That included a lot of stats that I had never heard of. Thanks for the link!

Thanks for the link!

It really is sad, and I know if I had ended up gay and not straight, I, too, would be of those kicked out as my family is not okay with it at all.

Sadly that's just how some close-minded parents are, and it's disgusting.