This Book Is Gay

by Juno Dawson

Stereotypes are useless for one very simple reason—they dehumanize people and allow terrible prejudices and discrimination to come creeping in. Bigots THRIVE on stereotypes. It’s much easier to hate a faceless stereotype than it is a human being.

Some homophobes think that gay people will crawl down their chimneys and somehow convert them, like GAY VAMPIRES.

Transphobic people will be similarly disgusted with trans people, whether they think it’s an impossibility for one to change their gender or if, as with gay people, they see trans people as EVIL SEX SIRENS WHO WILL FOOL YOU WITH THEIR GENDER SECRET.

Personally, I think Jesus, had he lived today, would be at every Pride march.