Monday, August 22, 2005

HOMOPHOBIA

I read this at Nancy's blog. It asked that, if you disagree with Homophobia, to please reprint this entry. I absolutely disagree with Homophobia or any prejudices in this world today.Read on friends:

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

Repost this in your journal or on another board if you believe homophobia is wrong!!!!

I hate discrimination of any kind. People just need to live their lives and not worry about other people and how we are living ours. Get over it and leave your noses out of our buisness. We don't tell you how to live your life so why should you have the right to tell us how and who we can live with or get married too. Not fair in the least bit. It's a free country, or did you type of people forget that. Love knows no boundaries, no discrimination.Enough about it already. Sorry to rant on. Sore subject with me. See ya

5 Comments:

Blogger Sublime said...

I've seen this going around on the blogs and think it makes a very powerful statement.

Glad you posted it!

Take care today,
Sublime

2:24 PM  
Blogger SassyFemme said...

Thanks for posting it!

8:04 PM  
Blogger Penny said...

That's awesome, Ace, thanks for posting it.

11:31 AM  
Blogger GingerSnaps said...

like i needed any more tears today! thanks alot!

i just wanted to add that i have a gay friend that works for the mayo clinic in rochester mn and they have healthcare benefits for gays and their partners (even though they are not legally married). when i found that out i was so happy that at leats one "big name" place in this screwed up society found the courage to do the right thing.

10:17 AM  
Blogger Ace of Spades said...

thanks for the info. that is cool that they offer that at some work places. my girlfriends job does not offer that and it really sucks for me. hopefully one day this country will understand love has no boundaries.

9:46 PM  

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