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[x5vale]

The story of Matthew Shepard broke me beyond words. I started to think about everything he could have been and will never be.


Thanks to aphoenixdragon


I AM!

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 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 EMT's 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"


If you believe that homophobia is wrong, share this with everyone you know

Comments

[brightstarmara.livejournal.com]

Just posted it in my LJ ;)

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Great :)

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Fuck it's so unfair. I wanted to repost your post from yesterday but wasn't sure if it's ok. I didn't hear his story before but it's so awful. I hate this world sometimes.

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Yes you can repost hon.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Oh, great! I'll do it later (have to go now to spend some time with my hubbs), is it ok if i copy/paste your post (don't want to make any misprinting in it)?

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Posted.

[jendeana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting honey, the whole situation just breaks my heart. Going to repost.

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Thanks sis.

[stjra.livejournal.com]

It can be a very cruel world to live in at times, but I have some hope that things will improve. I have seen some great leaps occurring just in my workplace so that brings me some hope.

I just do my best to make sure that my children will grow up with an open mind and loving heart.

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this.

I am sure you will succeed.

[schnute23.livejournal.com]

Wow this is SO SO intense! Thank you very much for posting it, I'm into tears now!

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[mad-about-dan.livejournal.com]

Wow! I had never heard about this case before. Its really surprising how in a world were we call ourselves futuristic and modern things as barbaric and brutal as this still happen. I mean we may have all the technology we need but our ideas and way of thinking are really close minded, selfish and thoughtless.

I just posted in on my LJ.

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU, darling...

*Cuddles you*

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*