This one just makes my heart hurt. I know what it's like to not be able to tell anyone about yourself. I know what it's like to always hold a little back, so you can't just be a genuine person to the people who you call friends or even loved ones. I know what it's like to avoid certain things you like because of what you are afraid it might say about you. I know what it's like to pretend like everything is a-ok when things are actually pretty fucking dire. None of those are things that anyone should have to feel on a non-stop basis for years and years, and for the last decade or so, kids were getting much closer to not having to know what any of that was like. Enter this legislature, which has decided that no, we should bring all of that back. It's like they all got together and decided, "If we can't create another generation of self loathing, scared homosexuals then what good are we as a legislating body?"
It's some bullshit, and I don't understand why Republicans put up with that nonsense. If this country is in as bad a shape as they say it is, shouldn't there be more important things to be focused on?