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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 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 woman who died when the EMTs 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 didnt 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.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
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 two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson"
im the girl that hates the world because everyone has turned there back on me because my love is another girl.
Live.
Love.
Laugh.
Sleep Later.
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thumper
got some tears out of me too!
-laughs-
a very close friend posted it on a myspace bulletin and its actually encouraging people to pass it forward.
so please do
-s-
Live.
Love.
Laugh.
Sleep Later.
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| any group could make a list pretty close to this, Everybody has to deal with discrimination and crap in the course of life....being homosexual dosnt give you a monaopoly on grief and struggle just some of your battles differ from the ones the rest of us fight.
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it's sad. that people can't accept others because of their preferences..
powerful stuff....
thanks for posting it~
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sinnin.....thank you for the words written here....it touches home in many ways....
and for those who post thier hate and discrmination on a gay thread just to incite.....your ignorance is showing......until you suffer the same indeiscretions...in the same depths and ways.....your words are hollow....and spoken out of your own prejudices.....
SW{bron}
~+walk a mile in My shoes.....the look Me in the eye+~
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reading the thread, seeing no words of hate let alone ignorance
seems at best SW Your post misplaced, misguided, or a misunderstanding.
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-bumps this....cos its a good read-
Live.
Love.
Laugh.
Sleep Later.
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| thanks sinnin...sad that people are so blind to a person's heart...
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