Gay Rights.....

[Serenade]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 3:56pm

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 boy who killed himself after his boyfriend died in an attack.

I am the boy who faked sick because I was afraid to see what was written on my locker today.

I am the boy who helped visciously attack his gay friend, because he didn't want his other friends to know that he had been seeing him.

I am the boy who's afraid to look another boy in the eyes, because of what he might think.

I am the boy who gave up on life because I never really knew what it was like to have one.

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

Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.
No one should have less equal rights because of who they are

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:01pm

Ummm...I already posted this on a different thread.

It's very good though, I love it! Updated On: 2/27/06 at 04:01 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:17pm

"I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that."

Oh, Jesus Christ.

[Serenade]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:53pm

It's excellent. I crid when I read it, but it's so true. These are people who are been tortured just for being who they are. It's disgusting.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:56pm

Namo's only upset because he wanted to be a gym teacher, too.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:56pm

I'm the one who laughed at FindingNamo's comment and then realized that none of this is even remotely funny. Now I feel like cr*p.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:57pm

While I didn't cry, I do think it's excellent.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 4:58pm

Look, forwarded e-mail homilies are nice and all, but I think the mental state of this board on the issue of queer rights is a little beyond the "consciousness-raising" stage.
Updated On: 2/27/06 at 04:58 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 5:05pm

"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 mean, come on. What the hell does that even mean?

Nobody outside of high school underclassmen write about "society" treating people a certain way.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:18pm

It means don't let Serenade get your e-mail , or you'll have this type of s*** sent to you day and night!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:21pm

"Nobody outside of high school underclassmen write about "society" treating people a certain way."

That's not true. You should visit a college theatre department nowadays.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:32pm

oh god, the number of sidewalk philosophers in my department. OY,

[Moderator]

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:54pm

This has been posted a number of times, therefore the thread is being locked from further discussion.

Thank you.