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Saturday,Apr 19 2008, 01:56:28 PMReason Why You should NOT be a Homophobic!
Reason Why You should NOT be a Homophobic!
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I thought this was the most beautiful e
mail.
I would love to meet the person who
wrote it.
http://thegentry.blogspot.com/2006/03/
myspace-bulliten-homophobia.html
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 not one of the lucky ones. I killed
myself just weeks before graduating high
school. It was simply too much to bear.
I am the (wo)man who fears that I will
never be able to be myself, to be free
of this secret because I won’t risk
losing my family and friends.
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 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.
I am the person ashamed to tell my own
friends I'm 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”
My prayers go to anyone who suffers.
We are a collective of courage and hope.
Hatred will one day be a thing of the past.
We can only dream.
(from
http://delfindjmontano.blogspot.com in
support of Brian Gorell)