Beaten up as a kid for being a ‘fag’ has left me wounded inside.
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This comment was by Paul in reference to the post – Get the Message Clear, My Pride Will Never Stop Marching
All the hate filled comments around marriage equality have triggered intense traumatic emotions from my adolescence. For three years I was subject to extreme homophobic abuse at the Catholic High School I attended. Abuse, that was encouraged by the sadistic principal, a Catholic priest, who believed that my homosexuality was because I was ‘weak minded’ and that I would be toughened up by having my peers beat the fag out of me.
I had a complete nervous breakdown because of that extreme homophobic abuse. It took me 10 years before I could even face the world again. Turnbull’s marriage equality plebiscite is going to kill me.
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