Literature
A Speech Against Hate
How would you like a friend so close to you, you call her "Daughter" being shoved up against a wall, beaten, and threatened by death if she told what those who had hurt her had done just because of her sexual orientation? Even worse, that the four boys who did that to her had gotten away with it? Homosexuality, defined as sexual desire or behavior directed towards a person or persons of ones own gender. Every year, hundreds of innocent people are killed in the U.S. just because their sexual orientation is different than what it considered to be the norm. Focusing on these crimes, I will discuss the problem, an