soul-rose

Homophobia means:

* 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 transgendered.

* 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.



Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it. Now really, go!

Truly I tell you, an institution that protects and supports hatred on any level can never be one of love.

Well I can say a few happy things. One is that we're doing Dracula rehearsal for the Youth Theatre, and they are fun! That's goin well at least. Second thing is that I'm doing better wtih Honors Geometry. I've been having trouble with the proofs and all that crap, so yeah, that was fun. But I'm starting to understand it a bit more, so yay.
The thing that's not going well is Spanish 2. That class is booorring... eh, it has its ok moments though, I have to admit that. Still, not that many people in my class actually care, and the teacher really doesn't notice when people either leave the room for a long time or when they cheat on a test... really, the class I'm in is annoying... oh well.
The sad thing is, even band is being hard. The idiots in the class won't shut up, that's the main problem. I admit, the music is kinda slow, but.... that's not the main thing. Basically a lot of people in that class just talk and talk. It gets really annoying. The sad thing is, the trumpet section has some good talkers as well. Today they got caught doing a lot of different things... oy...... it's just..... uuuuggg...
Oh well, hopefully Dracula will make things better, and other classes as well