the hate

Hate crime.
A crime mo­ti­vat­ed by racial,
SEX­U­AL, or oth­er prej­u­dice,
typ­i­cal­ly one in­volv­ing vi­o­lence.

What took place in Or­lan­do was no act of ter­ror­ism, it was an act of hate.

I lost a best friend though this – she was last seen at the Pulse night­club, and then she was on a list. Sad­ly, she is in a bet­ter place and hope­ful­ly not get­ting any more hate for choic­es she’s made in her life. Hate is some­thing that’s been there for­ev­er, but … this is a dif­fer­ent kind of hate.

Peo­ple lost loved ones, friends, boyfriends, girl­friends, sons and daugh­ters. This wasn’t some re­li­gion-sent shoot­er, this was­n’t an act of God.

This was an act of pure and ut­ter hate. Hate to­wards peo­ple who walk a dif­fer­ent path, but a path we may all know.

I’m tired of los­ing peo­ple I love, and I’m even more dis­gust­ed at the in­crease in vi­o­lence in our so­ci­ety. What hap­pened to love be­ing love?

We, of all peo­ple, aren’t forc­ing any sort of agen­da down your throats, so for fucks sake, don’t use this to force your agen­da down ours. This was NOT some kind of pun­ish­ment we all had com­ing.

No one and I re­peat NO ONE de­serves this. No one de­serves to hear a friend’s moth­er cry­ing out for her baby girl to get back to her, no one should have to find out that their best friend is in a body bag rather than a hos­pi­tal bed.

Love is love no mat­ter the gen­der or who it is be­tween. I’m tired of get­ting hate, I’m tired of hear­ing the hate. A moth­er lost her daugh­ter, a girl­friend lost her lover. Two of the vic­tims were get­ting ready to get mar­ried, and now they’re get­ting buried side by side.

And for what? What good was the shoot­er try­ing to do?

It wasn’t show­ing a mes­sage nor get­ting peo­ple to ral­ly in his cause, that be­ing a cause of hate.

When you take every­thing away, the peo­ple that have been tak­en from us so ear­ly are just like all of us. They’re hu­man in the end. In the end their love that they had with one an­oth­er was still love.

I get ques­tioned a lot about my own sex­u­al­i­ty, and as to why I pre­fer not to even both­er with that kind of thing. But when it comes down to it, I’m more than proud to say I iden­ti­fy my­self as a pan­sex­u­al in­di­vid­ual. For those who don’t know what that means …

Pan­sex­u­al.
Not lim­it­ed in sex­u­al choice
with re­gard to bi­o­log­i­cal sex,
gen­der, or gen­der iden­ti­ty.

As many have said be­fore me, love in the end is love no mat­ter the per­son.

We can’t fight hate with fear, we can’t fight hate with guns or vi­o­lence. What we can do is pick our­selves up and use our words in or­der to try and change what ig­no­rance is be­ing spread across the coun­try.
 

—kristin valen­tine buech­ler

Flom­mist Kristin Valen­tine Buech­ler is an artist, trav­el­er, and pro­fes­sion­al dream­er. Copy­right © 2016 Kristin Valen­tine Buech­ler. Top im­age bor­rowed from SOML.

To sup­port the vic­tims of the Pulse shoot­ing, please do­nate here. Also, jet­BLue is ex­tend­ing an of­fer of free trav­el to/from Or­lan­do for im­me­di­ate fam­i­ly members/domestic part­ners of those im­pact­ed by the shoot­ing, de­tails here.

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