Lgbt Persuasive Speech

Nobody decides to be gay. Nobody decides that, on top of all of life’s other problems, they’d like to deal with a never-ending barrage of slurs and comments about who they love. For some reason, the myth that people want to be LGBT for attention always lives on. It is, of course, perpetuated by those who haven’t experienced the effects of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, or any other phobia we are affected by every day. When these things don’t impact you personally, it’s easy to turn a blind eye to them, as if they don’t exist. I’ve been living openly as pansexual since my sophomore year of high school. Although in one of the most liberal states in the country, my school was very rural, and populated in large part by people whose politics
This only taught me to ignore their harsh words, and to work harder for what I believe in, and for what I know is right. During my junior year, we decided to change the color of our graduation gowns from two colors, separated by gender, to only one. There were a number of reasons this would be better for students who were gender nonconforming or transgender, but the senior class was against us. They voted to have two colors as always. As I saw it, this wasn’t a matter to be voted on, but a matter of civil rights. I, along with the rest of the GSA, refused to let something we believed was wrong go unchanged. Through persistence, patience, bargaining, and determination, we eventually brought our case before the school committee, where they voted to make the change. The class was livid. I started receiving threats of physical violence from seniors who were up to two years older than me, but I didn’t let it bother me, or stop me from continuing to fight. When it comes to things I care about, I am unwilling to give up, unwilling to do any less than I know I’m capable of. I knew I could succeed in this, and so I