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Shadow of Fantasy

PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:47 pm


The list below shows many of the ways in which our community and those around us have been affected by discrimination and other intolerent actions for the simple fact that we are homosexual or are the family and friends of some one who is. The following was writen on the memorial to Mathew Sheppard.

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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, throughout 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 ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived an 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 three weeks before graduating high school, it was just 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 to use to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not even allowed to 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 has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the domestic violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly distant and cold when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the father who 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 that I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think that I could be a much better person if I didnt always have to deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I dont believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the boy who killed himself after my boyfriend died in an attack.

I am the boy who faked sick because I was afraid to see what was written on my locker today.

I am the boy who helped viciously attack my gay friend, because I didn't want my other friends to know that I was seeing him.

I am the boy who is afraid to look at another boy in his eyes, because of what he might think.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, Love.


So what did you think of it? Any comments or discussions?
PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:07 pm


cry

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AkureiKnight

PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:57 pm


Been posted before, but it's still very sad.
PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:58 pm


This has already been posted on a old thread.

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Shadow of Fantasy

PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:21 pm


Sorry! Well I just thought maybe we could reopen discussion for those people who haven't seen it like myself! sweatdrop

Yes it is very sad indeed!
PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:11 pm


|You have just been punjabbed|

Reality is cruel.

|Have a nice day!|

-Lasciate Ogni Speranza-


Tenaku

PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:12 pm


Where did these things happen? That is completely horrible and totally unacceptable, something needs to be done about this kind of behaviour T.T
PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:09 am


They happen everyday to people like us all around the world. Seeing that this month is GLBT History month we should try to remember all those great people who have strived to change the world so that things like the ones listed above don't occur again.

Shadow of Fantasy


AkureiKnight

PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:45 pm


Maybe we should make a thread on Gay History. I think that'd be good. 3nodding
PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:11 pm


AkureiKnight
Maybe we should make a thread on Gay History. I think that'd be good. 3nodding


Great idea! I can provide information for the thread from the site for LGBT history month, maybe we can make it a stcky or something.

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