Straigt but Not Narrow (show and tell post)

After watching the movie The Hunger Games and seeing how beautiful the actor Josh Hutcherson was in it I took it upon myself to do some celebrity stalking. I’m not going to lie the amount of stalking I did was creepy but it was well worth it.  I got to look at his beautiful face and I came across this video on YouTube titled  “Josh Hutcherson is Straight But Not Narrow” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqKmdN08tE ) After watching it I knew would be perfect to use in a show and tell post. He did the video for a campaign called WeareSbnn (we are straight but not narrow). Their goal is to impact teens positively on how they treat and view there LBGT peers. In the video he is getting the word out about not hating on gay people when you are straight. He says it shouldn’t matter if you are a straight guy and have a guy friend that is gay because that just means there are more girls for out there for you .There are other celebrities involved with this campaign. The actor Cory Monteith who is known for his role in the hit t.v. show Glee did a video too

 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL7hLzDDbak ) where he says, “We’re guys talking to guys, about guys who like guys.” This is such a huge movement because I feel like there are still so many homophobes out and it is just a sign of ignorance. I mean why does it matter if a girl finds a girl attractive or a boy finds a boy attractive. In Hollywood it is very common for straight guys to be friends with gay guys because there are so many gay guys in the industry. The thing is though in the real world its not nearly as common.  It’s nice that there is a campaign out there that isn’t necessarily focusing on bullying like most of them do but they are taking it a step further and talking about befriending a person who you would normally not.  As a straight girl I have a gay friends that are boys. Honestly I have more fun hanging out them than I do a straight guy or one of my girlfriends. What girl doesn’t want a gay best friend? If someone asked me if I was a homophobe the typical response would probably be me getting really defensive and saying something along lines of me telling them I have tons of gay best friends and I love the Ellen show.  While all of those answers are true I don’t have any friends that are girls that are gay. That’s what these guys in this video are trying to get across. We need straight women talking to women about liking other women and vise versa.

It’s easy to be the neutral person who doesn’t make fun of the gay kid but sees it happening and doesn’t do anything about it.

The question is isn’t that just as bad? Would you not be friends with someone because they love pickles and they hate pickles? I know that’s a silly question to ask, but when you look at things in a simpler perspective it kind of makes you realize you shouldn’t pick your friends by what they like because the fact is, if someone likes or doesn’t like pickles it doesn’t really change their personality or who they are as a person. Your sexuality is whom you are and you are born that way. It doesn’t make you any more or less of a person.