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You CAN NOT love me and support me, and be Homophobic/hate Gay people or Trans people. You can not love me and not support/advocate equality, equal rights and safety for the LGBTQ+ community, a community that I am apart of. You can not love me and weaponize your faith of being Muslim or Christian or use God’s word to justify your hate and ignorance against me or people like me. I will no longer, ever hold space for that in my life this point forward. My best friend/ my brother was targeted and killed for being hisself, being proud of who he was and his sexuality, because of someone’s belief. This isn’t a safe world for me and for people like me; whether that’s black or gay. I look and carry myself a certain way due to what environment I was raised in and how I was raised. I knew from young this world was never going to protect me or accept me, and luckily I had/have family who loved me and knew how hateful this world is. I’ve always had such an optimistic view on this world, like unwavering optimism and hope but still knew I had to navigate in it carefully, with caution. I’ve experienced a lot in my 31 years on this Earth and still kept faith in humanity. We all lose people, yes I know…And there are so many other lessons, teachings, experiences etc to absorb and that I’m bringing to this present circumstance…and I’m still torn apart. I have the shadow of pessimism trying to lay root. HATE. I want to hate. Like fuck everybody and everything. I want to lash out. But I know better. I’m leaning on God and faith with the ounces of energy I have to remain on this earth, in this body on this planet. The complacency from both “straight” people and lack of outrage, unity and organizing in my own community, “the do nothing, say nothing” mentally that many of you have, many of the people who consider themselves a friend, an “ally” to me and my community, that mentality is allowing this world to become even more violent and unsafe. Y’all want to use our lingo (trans/gay), come to balls and watch Pose, Legendary and Vogue. Y’all want to listen to our music, dance our dances, wear clothes designed by gay designers, attend Pride but don’t want to defend or say “Stop killing Queer folk”. Doing nothing is allowing us to get killed. Sitting by allowing for your Husbands/Boyfriends, Sons, baby Dads, your uncles, your friends/homies including cis women etc not only to feel comfortable enough to verbalize and spew their homophobic/transphobic speech/rhetoric, but also go beyond words and getting physical, to the point of harming or causing death to people of my community. Feel how you want to feel, say what you want to say, I don’t care. Just stop putting your fucking hands on people, especially the ones I care about. No God I serve wants to see me suffer while living on this Earth, for being who I am, for being who He created me to be. I can have enough respect and decency not to agree with you, but still refrain from jeopardizing your safety or instigating from harm being done to you.