Homophobia is wrong
Autor: -Lelias-
● 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 did not 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 who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
● I am the girl who cries in shame when she's near her homophobic parents because I kissed another girl and liked it.
● I am the young boy who was smacked in public for sharing a kiss with another boy; we only thought that's what you did when you really liked someone.
● We are the parents who will live in regret because our teenage daughter hung herself from her tree house; we would have loved her even if she told us she was dating her best girl-friend.
● I am the teacher who still has his job even after the gay student I tormented with failing grades was hit by a car on the weekend.
● I am the boy who searched every book in the library about homosexuality only to find that my only question wasn't answered; is it wrong?
● We are the siblings who were disowned when our parents found gay and lesbian porn on the family computer.
● I am the boy who is always late to his next class, I refuse to get out of the showers until all the other boys are changed.
● I am the girl who got sick of her teacher at her pristine Christian school coming onto me and finally screamed that I was a lesbian; I'm not allowed back in that school again.
● I am the father who refuses to let his son date another boy because I know from experience that the world doesn't want you when you love another man.
● I am the boy who comes home from school with broken noses; my friends pressured me into drinking at a party and I told them everything.
● I am the man who stares at his new wife and her grown kids every day with regret; my ex-husband and I thought it was best if we did what was 'normal' of us.
● I am the mother whose daughter and friends came to for advice for having sex with another woman; now her friends' mothers won't meet me in the eye.
● I am the girl who feels a part of her is missing; my twin sister thought we were different since she was into other girls so she went to live with our father and left me here with our mum.
● I am the older brother who is trying to support his younger sister; our parents didn't want her anymore when they walked in on her with another woman.
● I am the teenage boy sitting in the hospital waiting room on my own, crying; my best friend just overdosed because he was to afraid to tell me he loved me.
● I am a bisexual who told her mom and homophibic dad and just wishes he would look at me the same way.
● I am the girl who's afraid to tell her parents and friends that she has a crush on another girl.
● I am just one of the people who is trying to make a difference.
● I am the girl who is backstabbed by her best friend because shes bi.
● I am a 15 year old girl that would die for her girlfriend - even if nobody else believes we love each other.
● I am a man trapped in a woman's body but no one believes me.
● I am the girl whose family says they except her, but doesn't think she can love another girl.
● I am the girl who gets tormented every day at school, and online because she is a lesbian.
● I am the 13 year old young woman who would give up anything or everything for her girlfriend, even if i had to sacrifice myself.
● I am the girl who is lucky to have her parents accept her, but not so lucky for all her friends to never look at her again.
● I am the girl who will write 'I love my girlfriend' all over her clothes, not caring what anybody says.
● I am the girl who will support everybody, even if i think what they belive is wrong.
● I am the woman who still feels guilty because she has been told that loving the same sex is wrong.
● I am the person with a father who still doesn't know that I'm being in a relation for many years now.
● I am the guy, caught in the body of a girl, but everybody calls me a freak
● I am the girl who had to grow up at an age of 13, due to massive mobbing and insults during school time
● I am the lucky guy whose parents and friends accept him - but I´m also the unlucky guy who has to see his gay and lesbian friends suffer, for they don´t have that much luck...
● I am the girl who will - no matter what - always tell the truth about her being bi - for I just don´t care and want them to see, that the world needs to change
● I am the girl who told her mother about the bisexual addiction, but she ignores that fact, 'cause she's homophobic.
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