This landed in my inbox this morning

[Aya McCabre]

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 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 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... Pass this on.

[Fairybread]

This... Is touching and so true...

[Daryn]

Horrible things some people have to go through. I wouldn't wish it on anyone- not even the ones who have done things to me like described in that post.

[Revan]

I've seen this many times before and its so sad every time.

+ YouTube Video

[Flyers2011]

I've read this many times myself. It's truly heart-breaking, but even moreso because it's true.

I am the girl who was stalked and threatened by her ex-girlfriend, and when I went to the school officials it was overlooked because she was another girl.

[Lotty]

That is so sad. Luckily, it's not like that here. I guess one of my sort of friends could say:
'I am the daughter whose mother is going to marry another woman next week'
Actually, she did say that. And no one reacted in a bad way.

But it is like that in so many places on the world. It makes me so sad. I almost cried watching that vid.

(and, not really appropriate, but what was that song used in the vid? I really loved it)

[Sheyceli]

Originally Posted by Lotty

(and, not really appropriate, but what was that song used in the vid? I really loved it)

The song is Keep Holding On by Avril Lavigne. Anyway, I have read this elsewhere several times before, and it makes me sad every time. I know a few people who have dealt with things like this, including myself, and it always makes me stop and wonder why people do this to each other. I mean, we've accepted so many other 'strange' and 'inappropriate' things in society, so what's wrong with being gay?