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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 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 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 the person who has to hide what this world needs most: Love.

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This is something to get you thinking. (Orginally from somewhere on DA.)

my life suddenly looks much easier to live.

Same here...Sooo sad. :{

;_;

wow, that gave me goosebumps.
that is really truly horrible
i don't even know what to say. crying

You almost made me cry... crying crying crying

That is what good writing will do to you evoke so many raw pure emitions that you only feel every once in a while. that is a great piece of writing.

moocat that is awsome that you live in a tolerant neighborhood, i think my neighbors would be tolerant if i was gay, i know my dads family wouldn't be tolerant of it.

*Nod* Reading that kind of thing or just thinking about it makes you feel really lucky.

I'm sorry what happened to your friends. Thats really upsetting. I've had suidical friends before but for some reason they turned to me sometime during their problems and I guess me just talking to them helped. I don't know why but they all pulled though in the end.

My friend's, friend is kind of having that problem right now, but not as bad. Apparently him and his boyfriend both thought that the other was cheating on them and they broke up. Now one is with someone else, and the other is being sudical over the matter. Well, at least those are the details I know. Really sad though when things get that bad people turn to that option.

I always thought that was the worst case sanaroy, when you start to think about it becoming an escape route. "You know, oh, if anything goes wrong, I can just kill myself and it will be over." Not only is that the worst mind set, but it does happen a lot.

redface Gomenasai, I went really deep there huh?