This song isn't about a gay man, it's about a transgender kid, asking their father to accept them.
The fact that this meaning goes straight over everyone's head, shows the meaning of the song. Barely anybody recognizes the struggle of trans people, even though it's in the acronym LGBT. Trans people have to struggle just for people to realize they exist, let alone how other people look at them. Hence the people staring at them.
It also explains the way people pray they don't exist. People pray their kids don't end up "cross-dressing freaks", or that they'll be cured of being trans.
Gay rights is important, but it's also one of the biggest issues of today's rights. Gay people don't have to scream "we exist", because everyone already knows. The comments on this already prove it, you hear of a man turning away from his son for being different, and you automatically think he's gay. Gay marriage and gay rights is all anyone's been talking about, and while that's a good thing, trans people are still silenced every day. That's what this song is about.
This song isn't about a gay man, it's about a transgender kid, asking their father to accept them. The fact that this meaning goes straight over everyone's head, shows the meaning of the song. Barely anybody recognizes the struggle of trans people, even though it's in the acronym LGBT. Trans people have to struggle just for people to realize they exist, let alone how other people look at them. Hence the people staring at them. It also explains the way people pray they don't exist. People pray their kids don't end up "cross-dressing freaks", or that they'll be cured of being trans. Gay rights is important, but it's also one of the biggest issues of today's rights. Gay people don't have to scream "we exist", because everyone already knows. The comments on this already prove it, you hear of a man turning away from his son for being different, and you automatically think he's gay. Gay marriage and gay rights is all anyone's been talking about, and while that's a good thing, trans people are still silenced every day. That's what this song is about.