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homophobia is wrong

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ang



Joined: 11 Aug 2006
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homophobia is wrong

I got this from someone, and sooo im reposting it.


credits to : ( ill write it her as soon as i find out )







I am the boy who never finished high school, because i got called a fag everyday.
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confined in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual women.
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 27yrs into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the 2 fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had.
I wish they could adopt me.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply tooo much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a 1 bedroom for 2 men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom i should use if i want to avoid getting management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to visit the children i bore, nursed, and raised. the court says im an unfit mother because i now live with another woman.
I am the domestic violence survivor who found the support sysytem grow suddenly cold and distent 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 a male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because i grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am th home economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the women who died when the EMT's stopped treating me as soon as they realised i was a transexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because i think i could be a much better person if i didnt have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because i dont believe, but because they closed the doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, LOVE.
I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends im a 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 2 straight men wanted to teach me a lesson.











If you think homophobia is wrong, repost this.
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Post Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:52 am 
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Dark prism



Joined: 10 Dec 2006
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Location: California Dreamin, baby.


Powerful, heartbreaking, and thought provoking.

Thank you for posting it.


Dp

Post Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:35 am 
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teebee5



Joined: 16 Apr 2007
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That is a very strong message.

I will repost this on my facebook page.

Thank you.
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