Hello to my very first blogger followers (:
I call my Kiss The Rainbow followers- Rainbowz (yes, with a "Z," and ALWAYS with a "Z"). I am a 15yr old High School student. I started this movement on my own back in August 2011. I am a bisexual female, rapper and poet. At the time when I began my movement it was originally to help myself. It was only the second week of school (my sophomore year) when I started this. I literally had just come back from my long summer break and I had already heard the gay slur "faggot" more than like 10times just in the FIRST week back to school. This infuriated me, I HATE gay SLURS, but especially that one. I figured I had to do something about it. My idea did not come to me till Wednesday of that week, 8-10-11 to be exact (I know this because I thought of my idea while holding a package of skittles and I took a picture with them). At the time, holding my package of skittles, the idea came to me- skittles are my favorite "gay" candy, because they are rainbow colored (: Well, I came up with the title "Kiss The Rainbow Glbtq Acceptance Movement," but wasn't sure what to do with the name I had created. I knew I wanted to speak out against gay slurs. My movement started small, it began with me text messaging friends and telling them to write "Kiss The Rainbow" on themselves the next day (the shortened version of 'Kiss The Rainbow Glbtq Acceptance Movement,'). I told them that I was trying to spread acceptance of the gay community and speak out against the slur "fag" (or "faggot). Over the course of a few weeks, people all over my school were writing "Kiss The Rainbow," on their wrists, hands, arms, chests, wherever I told them to or wherever they chose to that was visible. Some people weren't even sure what it was, but wrote it on themselves because their friends told them to. Most people knew it was my idea and my movement spreading through the school, I made sure that every person I told myself about my movement would pass along the message verbally to the next person they spread the movement to. The word got around quick that I (Mckayla -or Cerraya as people mostly know me as now) had started this movement, getting people to write "Kiss The Rainbow" on themselves. I wanted proof, so I began telling everyone to tell everyone to come to me so I could take a picture of where they had written "Kiss The Rainbow," on themselves. I kept the pictures, uploaded them on to my Facebook page for my movement once I got it started online, or they took pictures themselves. People began coming up to me at my lunch table saying they had heard they had to come to me and show me so I could get their picture, and I didn't even know who some of them were! (: It was awesome. Word got around they were also supposed to speak against the slur "faggot," and ANY other gay slur that I brought to the attention of my movement. Usually everyday I had some sort of theme, something new that my followers had to write on themselves, whether it be "I ban the slur f*g," or "I am Bisexual so accept it," anything I chose. Every time somebody offended the gay community they offended me, so every time I heard a gay slur (most common being "faggot) I spoke up- literally. I would be sitting in class, I would hear someone use the word (regardless of context) and I would say "Are you fucking kidding me?" or "Are you kidding me??!" And then whomever said it would respond and I would say "Yeah that's a gay slur," and they would shut up or continue an argument with me they lost anyways. In front of anyone, anywhere, I would do this. I still do, my movement has expanded and continued. At the time I had gotten a small following of gay and pro gay students who willingly followed me loyally (with the exception of one person in the end) and who are really the reason why my old school heard about my movement. I could not have completely have been heard if it were not for their voices spreading it ear to ear. I was trying to gain acceptance for myself, being bisexual, as my friends knew- but now all my peers and teachers now, this was my way of coming out publicly. It helped me gain acceptance (more than I got discrimination and hate) and become an image for my other classmates and friends that were too afraid to talk about being gay or bisexual or whatever, and an image for those who needed it. For at least five months I had NO ONE to talk to about my confusion before I understood who I was, I felt alone, scared, depressed and majorly suicidal. Even after telling some friends one by one, slowly, that I was confused, I still went through depression and denial and the whole process for not knowing who I am. I just wished there had been someone to tell me that what I was going through happens to a LOT of people, fuck- a whole COMMUNITY at some point for most of them. But nobody was there to assure me I would make it through. Even though it was a personal struggle, it was still one that I wish someone had been there for me to be an image of gay power, somebody I KNEW. Lady Gaga and other gay or bisexual celebrities kept me up for a while, but from afar. I needed somebody I could say hello to and ask questions. I had nobody. My friends, after I had told them I was confused- they had no answers, only suggestions. Some of them were bicurious or bisexual themselves, but none of them were standing up for the gay community publicly making statements and making it OK to talk to them. I wanted to be that person for somebody going through what I went through, and I quickly became a known defender of the gay community in my public school. I stood up and allowed myself to be torn apart by gay haters at my school, and online gay haters (some from school) just for whoever was out there and needed that strength. People began coming to me secretly with questions, fears, and positive comments. They loved and still love my image and I have been able to help people, and still do. My main mission is helping the gay community become more socially accepted, seeing as I am a part of it. My movement has made me the bisexual defender of the gay community in school and the biggest, most known gay advocate. I approach gay issues publicly and loudly. I am a very strong, loud, gay advocate with a "no bullshit" (aka homophobia) tolerance. I have no problem speaking exactly what I think when it comes to the gay community in front of any audience despite their views. My movement has allowed me to gain acceptance for myself and gain the strength to come out to my parents. I hope my movement has and is doing that for others following it. I like to say "homophobia is bullshit," and I believe that. My movement stands FOR gay acceptance (of all sexualities that are NOT straight, that's what I mean by gay) stands FOR gay marriage, stands FOR the REMOVAL of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," military policy that has been taken down, FOR gay rights, AGAINST homophobia, AGAINST gay SLURS, AGAINST any gay hate, AGAINST gay bashing and discrimination. These views are my personal views, but most of my followers stand for these views (obviously) but they are NOT required. Straight supporters welcome (we have some) I don't care what you are (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual/transgender,questioning (confused/unsure) pansexual (not necessarily gay here, but pansexuality holds the belief that it is POSSIBLE to fall in love with anyone regardless of gender, so you could like the same sex) I don't care if you're a drag queen, half woman half man, all of these things (if that's possible) I DON'T CARE, if you like the same sex then you are gay in some way, and I love you for it, accept you for it, and stand for you. I don't like everyone just because they are gay or whatever, if you're a fucking asshole then yeah I might dislike you or hate you, but when it comes to your sexuality I will always defend you and stand for you if you are ever bashed for it. You are a part of this community and we gotta stand up for each other at least on that basis strictly.
If you are my follower on any site with Kiss The Rainbow (KTR) you are my Rainbow.
Byeee Rainbowz (:
