I found this list in
's journal, and I just had to repost it.
Please, repost this in support of your friends and loved ones who are. Love is not defined by color, creed, sexual preference, or gender. Feel free to add your own story:
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 one 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 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 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 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 who isn't sure what she is. I am the who is rejected by her "best friends" because of a less-than-conventional crush.
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 brutality . 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. MURDERED BECAUSE HE WAS GAY!!!
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG... REPOST THIS
AS "HOMOPHOBIA."
IF YOU ARE IGNORANT... IGNORE.
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I just don't get why people are so mean to the homosexuals. It breaks my heart.
And the stories listed above were so sad... Especially because they're all true.
You know what? In norway, we've recently made a new law.
It says that gay people are now allowed to get married, and adopt a child, and they've now got the same rights as everyone else. Isn't that great?
I was so happy when I heard it ^__^
I myself am not gay, I'm 100% straight, but I support the gays and lesbians and transsexuals. I mean, why the hell not? They're people too. They're not abnormal monstrosities walking around with some contagious virus, like a lot of people have treated them.
Love is love, so why should the gender matter? <3
Everyone should know that it sucks being unloved, or being bullied or hated by someone. I can honestly say that i am not afriad of people who are different
i no many people who have life partners of the same gender
my aunt is one of them and i love her very much
one of my good friends is always teased because he is different
every time some one teases him i am filled with anger because he is my friend and he should not be treated that way
i punched my ex boyfriend because he made fom of my friend
and i dont regret it
Ok, have anyone been bullied? I have but not as brutallu as this ,
In fact, when I was little I was actually a bully myself sometimes, and I regret that a lot. But that hurts too, right? Being bullied and mocked by people. And rejected, that's no fun either. Friends abandoning you for stupid reasons, I've been through that too. And I bet everyone has!
I don't have any proof that I've been hated, but for the longest time, I've had this feeling that everyone hated me, and it's no fun at all. I had little friends and hardly anyone spoke to me, but that was mostly because I was silent and always seen as a loner and a freak bacause i was so tall for my age
Why am I saying all of this?
Well, because it strikes me that these sort of things are things that most gay people have to go through everyday, times a hundred. Not only rejected by their friends, but maybe also by their parents and relatives! Imagine that! Being kicked out of your own home because you're in love.
They get bullied at school, beaten up, and everyone who's been through the same oughta know that feeling.
Falling in love is never easy, and I think that it's especially difficult if you're gay. I mean, how do you tell if that other person is gay too? And daring to tell that person you love them, that must be scary. What if that person isn't gay? Then you might risk getting a rumor spread and then getting beaten the hell up and bullied ever since, just because of your sexuality, just because you told someone you loved them. Imagine how that must feel!
Even though I've been through some of the same things, only not that bad, I don't think I could ever truly understand the pain and difficulty.
Imagine the depression the poor gay people have to go through! Depression is also something I've been through. And it sucks! It's nothing we should make fun of. Imagine if, say, someone you loved died and you were sitting somewhere crying, and then people came laughing at you and calling you emo. Depression is nothing to make fun of. Emotions are nothing to make fun of.
And the "God loves everyone" - how can you say that and still claim 'God hates fags' and slam the church-door in their face, huh? I'm not gonna go on about my views on religion right now... But that just pisses me off.
And what really pisses me off is when innocent people are being harmed in any way. Animal abuse, child abuse, and what we're talking about now, I feel I can call that abuse too: mocking, discriminating and for no good reason hating another individual because of their sexuality -
Why can't we just accept people the way they are, instead of hating them for their "differences".
Give me one good reason to hate gay people.
In my opinion, there isn't any.
It's okay to hate a person for his or her actions, but it's not okay to hate them for something they're not guilty of.
If one gay guy was mean to you once (no, smiling at you, saying hi, or shake your hand or give you a hug, is not a mean thing) or did something bad (and no, loving someone isn't a bad thing) then ok, hate that person if you want. But don't hate everyone else who is gay too.
It's the same with racism. I'm actually almost embarrassed to be white because a lot of people with the same skin color as me are being so incredibly mean towards people with a darker skin tone. Some are like "oh, one black guy did something evil. That means ALL black people are evil!" y'know. Did you hear just how stupid that sounded? Well, that's how society is now a these days.We're judging all for one.
I want to repeat: If you're gonna hate someone, hate them for their actions, not who or what they are.
Like, this is another thing that some people might attack me for, but don't get me wrong here, I'm using this as an example.
Pedophiles. If someone tells me they're pedophile, I won't hate them because of their sexuality. BUT - if I've found out they've molested a child, which is a gruesome thing to do because it causes great harm to an innocent individual, then I'll never be able to forgive that person.
See what I mean?
Not yet?
Well, ok; You tell me you've got a dog. I think that's great and ask you more about the dog. You tell me it's a really sweet dog, excellent with children and a sheer joy to live with - simply your best friend. I smile thinking of how I feel the same about my dog, or some dog I know, and ask you what breed it is. You say Pitbull.
Someone's eyes widened now, I can tell. Because once upon a time, there was a pitbull with a bad owner that bit or perhaps even killed a person. And not only people hate that particular dog, they started hating every single other dog that was of the same breed.
Oh, a Golden Retriver bit a small child. Do people hate the Golden Retriver? No sir'ee. Because omg most Goldens they know were so kind and gentle and would never bite. And the newspapers and other people say it's a great dog, so of course we believe them.
Now, I'm not saying hate the Golden Retriver, I'm saying - why love one breed and hate another when they're both of the same species.
Ok, hate the dog that bit you, because it bit you. Don't think that since that dog was a certain breed and bit you, every single dog of the same breed is gonna bite you too!
And back to our subject; Why hate a person who has a different sexuality than you, when you're both of the same species. You're both humans, you've both fallen in love with someone at least once, you probably both like ice cream, there's nothing wrong with either of you. The only thing is that you have different personalities and you probably like different things. That's it. Is that a reason to hate someone? That they don't like the same things you do?
To hate everyone who's gay because they've fallen in love with someone of the same gender, that's not only wrong - it's incredibly stupid.
Why can't we just accept people the way they are and stop fearing difference. Dare being yourself and let others be themselves too.
let people love
no matter the sexuality
Tired
Sympathy
