John Barrowman, The Making of Me (2008)
I’m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I’ll probably fail, but here goes: John’s very secure in his sexuality. He’s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears that if he’d stayed in a country where homosexuality was illegal for most of the first part of his life, that he wouldn’t have survived.
And that’s why equal rights are so important.
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#but people still say their ‘opinion’ that gays are disgusting and should be criminalized #is not harmful at all if a man like John Barrowman whose entire existence has been one big happy ball of sunshine #that he has shared with the world believes he would have killed himself if he could not BE himself then what about all the others? #these things fucking matter hate is harmful it’s deadly your ‘opinion’ is shit (via @momentsofweakness)
I love him.
Guys I’m gonna be brutally honest here. I’m secure and happy in my sexuality now, but growing up in a conservative Christian home? I’d literally never seen a single queer character in my life. I only heard of “the homosexuals” or, worse, “them,” hissed through thinned lips like some kind of swear word, and I heard how they were horrible people who went against God.
That’s why I thought I was a monster when I realized I wanted to kiss my best friend. I was fifteen with no help and no hope. And then my friend got me into Doctor Who. I’ll never forget the moment when Jack kissed the Doctor and Rose each exactly the same way. It changed my life. I read later that he was very careful to play each kiss as exactly the same, because it was important that kids like me saw that. Knew that there wasn’t any difference.
That kiss probably saved my life. I was fifteen, suicidal, closeted, and miserable, but damnit, if Jack could kiss the Doctor and end up a hero, why couldn’t I be okay too?
Seeing this shook me to my core. Because if he’d killed himself, I would’ve too.