from christeos_pir

[chelidon]

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 adolescent boy who committed suicide because my priest told me I would be better off dead than a sinner.

I am another adolescent boy who was molested for years by the another priest who all the while told me God hates homosexuals, but I never mentioned it because he convinced me it was my fault.

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


Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.

Comments

[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. Reposted.

YES yes yes yes and again yes.

[cerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. I know some people who would love the acknowledgement in this, I'll be passing it along - thank you again.
XOXOXO
Shonna

[a-valan-che.livejournal.com]

Speechless.

Reposted.

Are people that cruel?


"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have
good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But
for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."

- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate -

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Are people that cruel?

Unfortunately, yes. Not all people, but enough (or more accurately, "too many."

Agreed.....

[cerr.livejournal.com]

as an AIDS activist you see just how cruel people are all the time - or how they can be, rather. Then again, just watch the nightly news for more examples!