Mood:  spacey

life is so cruel

I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called "fag" every day.

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I told my mother I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets becuase no one will hire a transgenderedl 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 27 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've ever known. I wish they could adopt me.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myslef two weeks before graduating high school. The pain was just to much to bear. Why did I kill myself? I could not handle the constant torment and discrimination from others.

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 aviod conflict from people who do not understand my feelings.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I birthed and raised . The court says i am an unfit mother now that I have a female as my life partner.

I am the domestic violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant, once they found out my abusive partner was a woman.

I am the domestic survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection for another man.

I am the English teacher who always wanted to be a gym teacher until someone told me that only lesbians become gym teachers.

I am the woman who died when the EMT's stopped treating as soon as they realized i was a transgender.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if i didn't have to deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I didn't believe, but because they closed their doors to people of my lifestyle.

I am the person who has to hide what the world needs most, love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my friends that I am lesbian because they constantly make fun of them.

I am the boy, tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson."

-- IF YOU BELIEVE HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG THEN SPEAK UP WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING WRONG. WHEN SOMEONE USES THE WORD "GAY" TO MEAN SOMETHING STUPID, TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

--IF YOU ARE IGNORANT THEN CONTINUE YOUR BLINDNESS AND IGNORE THIS MESSAGE AS YOU HAVE PROBABLY NOT EVEN READ THE WORDS.

These are the type of things that homosexuals and transgendered people deal with in everday life! We are not asking for special rights, just to be treated as equals. It's sad to think that these things really do happen everyday. Gay teens have one of the highest suicide rates to this very day. Can you imagine being so afraid of losing the love of your friends and family that you would rather die than go through life feeling alone. Can you imagine the pain of not being able to hold the hand of the person you love because of what might happen to you, or crying at a wedding not because you're happy but because you cannot get married to the one you love?

Please take a moment to think about the stories posted above. All we are asking is that you keep an open mind and try to understand. When you close yourself off from an entire comunity because you may not like it or understand it, you're cutting yourslef off from getting to know some really amazing people. Thank you for taking the time to read this!