Finding Security in a world of Hate
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9/11 Changed the USA for all of us. Terrorists served notice on that day that there is no place on earth that is truly safe. If the last remaining superpower in the world could be hit with such a devastating blow, we’re all vulnerable.
When tragedy strikes, safety evaporates. Security is undermined. Uncertainty abounds. Fear invades. And it can strike unannounced from just about any direction.
Suicide is the leading cause of death among gay youth.
50% of all gay youth report that their parents reject them due to their sexual orientation.
50% of all gay youth report that their parents reject them due to their sexual orientation.
Tragedy strikes the deepest when it hits where we least expect it,
ripping apart our sense of security and shaking
us with feelings of loss and vulnerability.
Violent tragedies are the result of intentional
violence that targets an individual or group.
In spite of all our Governments efforts to make the US
a safer place for Gays, it is still marked by violence.
The loss of life resulting from an act of Gay Hate
is what we think of as a tragedy in the Tribe.
These are some common characteristics of tragic events
1. They are unexpected.
They strike out of the blue, unleashing their fury without warning.
We feel stunned and shocked, blindsided by
a sucker-punch that leaves us dazed and disoriented. We
Feel overwhelmed and woefully unprepared.
2. They are uncontrollable.
The event not only takes us by surprise, but it is beyond
our ability to prevent, change, or manage.
3. They are unimaginable.
We see the tragic event with our eyes,
but we just can’t believe it’s really happening.
December 10, 2009 46-year-old, D.P. Martinez
is in jail accused of attacking an
18 year old male gay student late Sunday.
He was knocked out, thrown into his own car,
driven out to the desert where he was
sexually assaulted and his car was lit on fire,
The victim was then taken to a house,
where investigators say he was sexually assaulted again.
He was able to find a break and escape and ran
He was able to find a break and escape and ran
out in the desert with nothing but a pair of flip-flops on.
It’s this surreal quality of a tragedy that leaves us
stunned by what we previously would have call “unthinkable”.
4. They are unprecedented.
Nothing like this has ever happened to us personally before.
5. They leave us uncertain and vulnerable.
In the aftermath of a tragedy, life’s fragility is glaringly apparent.
We feel torn between hope and fear, despair and disbelief.
We don’t want to give up hoping, and yet we’re afraid to allow
ourselves to dream or long for anything or anyone ever again.
In a world of pronounced danger and uncertainty,
one thing is certain-all gays are at risk.
All the Gay laws that have been passed cannot
guarantee absolute security against gay hate.
, they even get innocent children to hate us!
Help us, Lord
“You can pass all the Gays laws you want
but that will not change the thoughts of the people.”
How do we experience our vulnerability when tragedy strikes?
1. Shock
It’s the emotional circuit breaker that trips to protect us
from a massive overload that could result in total shutdown and
Inability to function.
Shock is the body’s first line of defense
against the overwhelming chaos of a tragedy.
2. Pain
In spite of all our best efforts to prepare for it, nothing can shield
us from the searing pain that rips through us after a tragedy,
Especially if we’ve lost someone close to us.
A jagged hole has been torn in our hearts.
Carl Walker -Hoover
Walker said her boy, upset yet again over
another bullying episode at school, had
committed suicide.‘They were always saying,
'you're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl,”
RadioFlyer: This should not have ever happened! His Mother could not see
the Pain her Boy was going through, and his pain had to be very great for him
to take his own life! He truly must have thought that there was
NO ONE in the world that would help him.
As Gays if we love deeply we’ll hurt deeply
when we lose the one we love.
We writhe in pain when someone precious to us has been snatched from us.
And then fear sets in-the fear of living in a world of risk, danger, and uncertainty.
3. Fear
In this stage of vulnerability, you as Gay, grapple with thoughts like:
“How can I go on living without my Lover to share it with me?
“Will I ever laugh again?”
“Will I ever be able to forget what has happened to me?
When we go through a tragic disaster that wipes out life as
we know it, the fear of not surviving
becomes our preoccupation.
Living without our loved one seems not only impossible but unthinkable,
and the dread that it could happen again-fuels our fears.
4. Anger
“This can’t be happening to me! What did I do to deserve this?”
In the US
We want life back the way it was. And because we can’t have it back, we get mad.
5. Abandonment
When we have to pick up the pieces of our life after a tragedy, we feel abandoned and alone.
Your job, your home, everything you loved can be wiped out.
Now you must go it alone.
They not only say that God hates us, but the Government as well!
6. Isolation
There is an enemy known as isolation.
It sits waiting….forever waiting.
It’s the barrier of loneliness, the desperate need
of the human animal to be with his fellow man.
When hit by a tragedy, we often feel alone
and isolated by a silence that grips our hearts.
We don’t feel like talking because we think:
“No one could possibly understand what I’m going through.
No one can fully understand my pain, loneliness, and fear!”
Pain, fear and anger can so overwhelms us that a
self-imposed form of exile somehow seems best.
If you, as Gay are reading this and you are in self-imposed exile,
Please come to the Tribe! Be with others going through just what
YOU are going through!
7. An inability to focus
The cumulative effect of emotional overload
is the inability to focus on basic needs.
“Why bother? Everything is ruined anyway.”
What tragedy takes from us
All that we once thought safe, secure, and stable seems gone.
Things we’d hoped for, dreamed about, and
counted on have evaporated before our eyes.
1. Loss of safety
The truth is the US
for Gays. Most of us know that, but few of us live as if it’s true.
Tragedy exposes the undeniable reality of just how vulnerable we really are.
Tragedy exposes just how unsafe we really are, and it reminds us that we’re not in control.
for young men between 15 and 24 –
and looking at what Mormons teach their
children about what it means to be gay,
it's no wonder that their gay children choose death.
The Children here lost hope, they had no help, no Tribe of the Maoy
and no gay rights. And as a result, took their own lives.
In the Tribe, we MUST help Gay Boys and Men!
Give them a reason NOT to kill themselves!
When somebody knocks you down, and pushes your face into the
sidewalk and says, “Hay, you little faggot, kiss the concrete!”
That’s what the world is made out of. Concrete and gutters
and dirty old buildings and tears for every minute You’re alive.
2. Loss of control
Tragedy can shatter the illusion of being
in control in this dangerous world.
Unless you live in the Tribe,
no one is ever in control.
Without coming to the Tribe, We must finally
surrender to the truth that life is dangerous,
death is sure, vulnerability is inescapable, and there
is little we can do to make much of a difference.
3. Loss of Confidence
We are haunted by doubts and “what if’s.”
A survivor looks for any shred of
evidence that could have been used to avert
the tragedy, but when none is found, confidence disappears.
3. Loss of perspective
People who do not know the Tribe, and have no faith in anything, often find
themselves faced with choices they have not considered before.
What do you do when your back is against the wall with no way you can see out.
At first when things are clearly out of control and overwhelming, we tend to
Instinctively pray for help and intervention to a God we may not know.
Then, after some distance from the shock of it all, we begin just as predictably
to blame God, or at least question His presence or absence in the tragedy.
4. Loss of hope
Tragedy hammers hope the hardest, and hope is what keeps us alive.
Despair can set in when dreams are shattered
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
But a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.”Proverbs 13:12
The Tribe can be an answer to this question:
‘Why bother going on when what I deeply want is gone?
When my lover, my health, my life are all gone, what’s left to live for?”
We must never give up!
The instinct of self-preservation is stronger than
hope. It thrives, fortunately, upon nothing.
It takes root upon the brink of the grave, and blossoms in the jaws of death.
It can flourish bravely upon the breast of dead hope, and urge you onward.
Living in the Tribe, may not be able to get back everything,
but the Tribe can bring you a better life then you have now.
Tragedies not only take from us, they also leave
us with scars we never wanted in the first place.
Those who lose a loved one are more likely to
need the Tribes help in dealing with their grief.
Grief is not an event; it’s a journey. Life will never be
the same again, but through the Tribe, it can be good again.
For some, tragic events lead to complications that require the Tribes special help.
Tragedy teaches us to trivialize the trivial.
In spite of what popular culture tells us,
what doesn’t matter much at all in the
final analysis is our agenda and our stuff.
When tragedy unexpectedly interrupts, our agenda is
clearly seen for what it really is-our mistaken plans.
Radioflyer: I had a great agenda, I owned a storage lot with $700,000 dollars in stuff,
that I planed to sell, and a motor home of my own, then something happened
to break everything, and as a result, I lost the storage and my motor home.
Great dreams that are now gone forever.
Now I have the Tribe, and I will never let that die!
We have to learn from our mistakes, or they can destroy us.
The truth is we need God in the Tribe, to help us get past the things
that have deeply hurt us, to help us find a new life in the Tribe.
If we allow the Tribe, with the help of God, to help us through
our tragedies, then the Tribe and God can equip us to live more
Confidently and have a good life.
Tragedies leave us scarred.
No one gets through unscathed.
Gays who mature through tragedy have learned and now believe that trauma,
disaster and even death will never have the final word.
They still grieve over what they’ve lost, but their grieving,
as well as their living, is entwined with hope.
Remember this: No less than 80 countries around the world
consider homosexuality illegal
and that in 5 of them - Iran , Mauritania ,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen - and in parts
of Nigeria and Somalia
love and acts are punishable with death!
The Tribe knows that nothing we do can fix that which is already lost.
We can’t change history, raise the dead or restore what’s been lost.
The only thing we can really do is offer you a new life, where you can forget the pain of the past, and go into a new future.
It’s time to wake up, and live again!
Gay Hate is never, in our life time, going to go away.
There is two much build up hate over hundreds of years.
Gay hate can strike at anytime! It can take away your job, your family, your friends, and your life.
But it can’t take The Tribe away from you!
It can’t touch you in the Tribe!
It’s the only place you can be yourself,
where Gay hate cannot touch you.
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This is a Web site under God, and follows Gay Freedom and Gay Religious Freedom, as found in the constitution of the United States, and
Found in the Civil Laws of this country.
All pictures are believed to be in public domain any that are not will be removed upon request.
Art and text are owned by the FREE and INDEPENDENT TRIBES and CHURCH of the MAOY
And shall not be removed or copied for use other then personal use or promoting the Tribe.
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This is a Web site under God, and follows Gay Freedom and Gay Religious Freedom,
as found in the constitution of the United States, and
Found in the Civil Laws of this country.
All pictures are believed to be in public domain any that are not will be removed upon request.
Art and text are owned by the FREE and INDEPENDENT TRIBES and CHURCH of the MAOY
And shall not be removed or copied for use other then personal use or promoting the Tribe.
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