My best friend is gay.
He tells me this as we’re walking
down the street eating ice cream.
I’m 10, he’s 12.
I don’t really know what ‘gay’ means,
so I ask him.
“It’s when a boy loves a boy
or a girl loves a girl,” he tells me.
“Well, I love, Sophie,” I respond.
He chuckles. “Not in that way, Kate.”
His laugh is bitter and I think
he’s mad at me for being stupid.
Then I see tears, coming from his
brown eyes that are always happy.
My best friend is gay.
He cries about this as we sit on my bed,
I’m holding an icepack to his bruised lip.
I’m 13, he’s 15.
I know what gay means now,
it’s when a boy loves a boy
and a girl loves a girl.
It is not a bad thing,
but everyone seems to think it is.
Society thinks it is.
“It is not okay to love the same sex,”
our “guidance counselor” tells him.
This person who was supposed to help him,
this “adult” who has made him cry.
My best friend is gay.
He is in love and keeping it a secret,
lying to the world out of fear.
I’m 16, he’s 18.
Being gay means loving someone
you’re not supposed to.
When a boy loves a boy,
and a girl loves a girl.
I don’t see what is wrong with it,
but society makes it seem like
a crime.
He finishes school next month,
he’s moving away then to be with
the guy he loves.
My best friend is gay.
He’s too afraid of society and the judging
eyes that it casts against him.
I’m 19, he’s 21.
Being gay means you cannot marry
who you want,
because you are a boy who loves a boy,
because you are a girl who loves a girl.
It’s untrue, unfair, unjust.
Love is love.
He is loved.
Mason loves him.
Society needs to understand
that it is not wrong.
My best friend was gay.
I cry about this while I sit in
the hard church pew.
I’m 22, he was 24.
Being gay is when a boy loves a boy
and when a girl loves a girl.
It’s what killed my best friend,
because he was a boy who loved a boy.
Some malicious monster hit him
until he was so bloody and broken,
until he couldn’t breathe.
He is dead for being in love
with someone he "shouldn't".
My best friend is dead.
*Disclaimer: this is not based on real events*
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