If you have been through people bullying you because of your sexual orientation, it can be very discouraging. These are some steps to help you deal with the bullying.
1. Explain it to them.
Sometimes the bullying is because the person isn't properly informed about your sexuality. Explaining it could help them to understand you are the way you are, and that you can't help it.
Older people who grew up in a homophobic environment may have been raised to believe that being gay is wrong. People like your grandma may be like this. Just try to either explain it to them, or just tell them the bare minimum, and they should understand.
Most of the time it is because they want to get a reaction from you. Just walk past and ignore them. Even if they don't go away you aren't provoking them to do anything worse.
3. Sometimes people are homophobic because of their religion.
If this is the case, try to explain to them that you are different because you were born that way, and that it is not your fault.
Here are tips for you:
- The TV show GLEE may be helpful. They have a very educational and informative homophobic bullying story line as well as characters and other story lines that we can all relate to and look up to.
- Don't take any homophobic name calling to heart. When you know the word 'Faggot' actually refers to a bundle of sticks bound together for fuel and 'homo' is just an abbreviation, it's the bully making a complete fool of themselves and not even realising it.
- Don't ever try to change yourself to stop the bullying. There is nothing wrong with being different and not fitting in to what is apparently 'normal'.
- Don't let this go unnoticed. Tell an adult you trust as soon as possible.
1. Explain it to them.
Sometimes the bullying is because the person isn't properly informed about your sexuality. Explaining it could help them to understand you are the way you are, and that you can't help it.
Older people who grew up in a homophobic environment may have been raised to believe that being gay is wrong. People like your grandma may be like this. Just try to either explain it to them, or just tell them the bare minimum, and they should understand.
2. Don't react!
Most of the time it is because they want to get a reaction from you. Just walk past and ignore them. Even if they don't go away you aren't provoking them to do anything worse.
3. Sometimes people are homophobic because of their religion.
If this is the case, try to explain to them that you are different because you were born that way, and that it is not your fault.
Here are tips for you:
- The TV show GLEE may be helpful. They have a very educational and informative homophobic bullying story line as well as characters and other story lines that we can all relate to and look up to.
- Don't take any homophobic name calling to heart. When you know the word 'Faggot' actually refers to a bundle of sticks bound together for fuel and 'homo' is just an abbreviation, it's the bully making a complete fool of themselves and not even realising it.
- Don't ever try to change yourself to stop the bullying. There is nothing wrong with being different and not fitting in to what is apparently 'normal'.
- Don't let this go unnoticed. Tell an adult you trust as soon as possible.
Warnings: If it gets really serious, tell an adult/parent/teacher/counselor or even the police if there are physical threats made.
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