Thank you for changing your views, I know how hard that can be.

I wasn’t a tankie in my past, I was homophobe among other things.

My views have changed since then and it hurts to think back on those who were hurt by my views. But I try to do better. And that’s really all we can do.

We’re human, we make mistakes. Our mistakes aren’t what define us. It’s our response to mistakes (be it our own or others) that define us.

Plus once I got to the root of where that homophobia came from (self hatred, being a victim of abuse, etc) I was able to move past it.

I’ll never forget what it felt like to look at myself in the mirror and say aloud, “I’m bisexual.”

And over the years confronting those I knew who still held onto those shitty views, and they either changed or I moved on.