from a list I am on, this makes you think, wish more people did (think)
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a
lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual
woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled
nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my
partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the
two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could
adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a
coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating
high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted
to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid
getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed,
and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another
woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly
cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because
I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show
affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone
told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they
realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person
if I didn't have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but
because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
Repost this in your journal or on another board if you believe homophobia is
wrong!!!!
