Blog Assignment #3

For my blog assignment I went to the coming out monologue, which I found to be really fun and fascinating. I did not know what I was exactly getting myself into and I was really unsure about what this experience would be like. When I first got there I did not really know anyone there and I felt a bit out of place. People introduced themselves to me, and I thought it was really nice of them. It looked very formal so I felt I was a bit under dressed. I found one of my sisters best friend there and I went and talked to her and she introduced me to a lot of people. I honestly do not remember many of the peoples names that I met but I can at least recognize the faces when I see them around campus. The food looked great, for some reason I did not get any. I guess at the moment I was not hungry, or some some odd reason like that. It turned out that Andre from our class was there and I got to meet him and I got to know more about him to.
I was really fascinated by the monologues, and many of the stories were very funny sad and all other emotions that come along with it. I really liked how the monologues were not just people sitting in a chair, instead there was dancing, acting, singing, pictures, stories talking to their young selves, and little set ups and props for their presentation. Some of the stories really made me realize, that there is a lot more to people than what you just see at first glance. I mean that in a sense that, you can not judge people until you really know what they have been through. Many stories, I was in shock of how hard it is to come out. I learned that people had gone through a lot of depression, and have even come close to killing themselves. The things that people do to others for something they do not choose amazed me, bullying wise. I was really unaware what LGBT people went through. I did not know that they were mentally and physically harassed to the extent that I was informed on.I really thought that the people presenting were really brave for standing in front of an audience of people, not knowing over half of the people, learning about their personal lives that many others would not share with others.
I think that I had learned a lot more about LGBT people throughout the starting of college, the week inside the pride center, and going to the coming out monologue. I was really pleased with the experience I had going to the monologue, and plan on going next year. I found everything about that experience a plus and encourage more people to go to the future ones.