Rumor's Poem Intolerance Against The LGBT Community

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” - Nelson Mandela. Intolerance is the unwillingness to accept someone or a group of people just because they’re different than you or what you believe in. Imagine if you were a part of the LGBT community and you weren 't allowed to marry your significant other in North Carolina just because you are the same sex, if you couldn 't go to a nightclub without being shot at, or if you weren 't allowed to use the restroom in public since you are transgender. There are about 9 million LGBT American people, yet they still receive lots of intolerance. The first situation showing intolerance in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community was the Orlando shooting that happened just last year. The shooting took place June 12, 2017 at the gay nightclub in Orlando. The deadliest mass shooting sadly killed forty-nine people and at least fifty-three injured. Omar Matten, 29, was behind the terrible attack that morning, but was shot and killed by a police officer at the scene. Rumor has it that ISIS was the mastermind behind the organized plan that took place that early morning. The attack was a terrible incident that was clearly an act of hate.

If you look closely you can see that it even happens in our own school. Sam Behm is a perfect example of this he came out as transgender about one year ago and has experienced some backlash ever since. He knows first hand what 's it’s like to not feel comfortable going into the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity because others don 't agree. Sam said “Obviously I can’t go into the men’s bathroom because people would be like what are you doing in here?” Sadly, he also said “I don’t want to get any backlash or anything for going in the men’s.” This is just one example of the kind of things the LGBT community members are still experiencing