Stop and thank the Gay.

If you are gay stop what you doing right now. Put down the coffee, baby, cock, or pussy and watch this movie. The Imitation Game. It is about the true life story of the man who invented computers. His name was Alan Turning, and he was gay. Not just gay he was proud gay and not willing to hide it gay. 

 Let me say that again A GAY MAN invented computers. The only reason I can write this or you can read it is because of Alan Turing. A GAY MAN that committed suicide after being caught with a male "companion” and was put on a drug therapy to “cure his gay predilections”. 

Why is it that I am 42 years old and just hearing about this now???? Why is it that I all that time that I was in school NEVER ONCE was I told and NEVER ONCE was it even indicated that the person that invented computers AND built by hand the first working computer was a GAY MAN?

I am so angry about this. And it I got to thinking. How does one go about destroying a culture? Well human have been doing that since the beginning of time. You start by taking away their history, religion, sexuality and their language. 

So today I am reclaiming MY GAY history. When I was taught about the following people- even up through my Bachelors they were implied to be straight, their love lives were mentioned because oftentimes it was said that they were never married. This white/het rewriting of history is rampant. But the reality is that these people were gay, and there is evidence that still exists proving that fact:

So here you go!!!  Hold on to your hats!!!!  

Martin Luther King had a right hand man that was openly gay. It was this man that organized the March on Washington. BAYARD RUSTIN.

American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17 years old. SUSAN B ANTHONY

The first nurse. FLORENCE NIGHTENGALE 

Started the Red Cross in America: CLARA BARTON

The artist Michelangelo   and his long term lover Tommaso dei Cavalieri

The artist Leonardo Di Vinci who was convicted of   sodomy - TWICE.

Author of: Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. WILLA CATHER

The actor JAMES DEAN  and his lover Rogers Bracket

So I had it easy my Mom was bi leaning gay, my dad was gay. So my coming out was a yawn fest. What get to  me is the idea that out in  butt fuck  nowhere there is a young questioning gay.   

Someone who feels that they are different but can’t quite put their finger on it.  Someone who gets teased and really doesn’t understand why. Someone who is deeply confused by their angry parents. A young gay who REALLY needs to know that they are not alone.

 A young gay that when they receive that text from their parents saying “Don’t come home faggot” can smile because the only way that their homophobic parents got to text that message was because of a GAY MAN.

So next time you text, play on your Iphone, or Ipad remember to stop and thank the Gay.

Because without the gay all of that technology would be a fart in the wind.