Whether you are homosexual or not, you should repost
this in support of your friends and loved ones who are. Love is not
defined by color, creed, or gender.
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 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.
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 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 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 a warrior for my country serving proud, but can't be my true self because gays aren't allowed in the military.
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."
This
is the boy, Matthew Shepard. On October 7, 1998 Aaron McKinney and
Russell Henderson lead him to a remote area east of Laramie where they
demonstrated unimaginable acts of hate. Matthew was tied to a
split-rail fence where he was beaten and left to die in the cold of the
night. Almost 18 hours later he was found by a cyclist who initially
mistook him for a scarecrow. Matthew died on October 12 at 12:53 am at
a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Killed because he was gay.
<I myself am bisexual and am currently engaged, but I know how much being shunned like this hurts. I remember when I confided in my friends that I was also into women as well as men they freaked out. Many of my friends either moved way or just stopped talking to me. Then later they either said: Oh, well I just didn't want you to hit on me. Or I never liked being your friend anyways. So yeah>
Now a little off topic
DETH
KLOK
IS THE GREATEST CARTOON
EVER MADE
IT IS THE MOST METAL-EST,
BRUALIST, DARKEST
MOST FUCKING AWESOME
SHOW EVER.
AND THE MUSIC IS FUCKING
AWESOME TOO!
And I know what I
want for my birthday!
I WANT THE
DETH
ALBUM
(DELUXE
EDITION)
I am listening to it on
Project Play List. So yeah.
*sniffles*
I WANT IT NOW!
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