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I got this in an email circular. Normally I HATE these forewarded things, they clutter up my inbox, they spread my email to people I dont want getting it.

But I think this one deserves some attention



I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a *** everyday

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 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 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 didnt 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 ashamed to tell my own friends im a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.

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"


Gays are people too

(There was a send to thing but I took that out)
 

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And the truly sad thing is that these aren't the worst of the stories. Such as the EMT that not only quit giving life-saving treatment but actually started ridiculing the person http://www.gpac.org/archive/news/notitle.html?cmd=view&archive=news&msgnum=0125 or a similar story at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyra_Hunter

Or the recent story on the News forum, where the sheriff is claimed to have stopped another person from performing CPR on a dying gay man http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/125739/

Or a police officer raping a transsexual http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=C34CA6C7-8F1C-4D21-AE70-39856DDE2253
 
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SimplyMe said:
And the truly sad thing is that these aren't the worst of the stories. Such as the EMT that not only quit giving life-saving treatment but actually started ridiculing the person http://www.gpac.org/archive/news/notitle.html?cmd=view&archive=news&msgnum=0125 or a similar story at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyra_Hunter

Or the recent story on the News forum, where the sheriff is claimed to have stopped another person from performing CPR on a dying gay man http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/125739/

Or a police officer raping a transsexual http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=C34CA6C7-8F1C-4D21-AE70-39856DDE2253
:eek:
 
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Helo said:
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didnt have to always deal with society hating me.

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 gay, because they constantly make fun of them.



Gays are people too

These three are what best describes me. I however am glad that my chruch hasn't rejected me and my mom either.

I also have a hard time in society. People just look at me and just throw the cut downs without looking at them selves in a mirror

I also am hiding my love towards this guy that I have a chruch and nobody would understand and it is god that wants us to love others as they way he loves us.

And I can't even tell my friends accept for my Ex-Girl friend only because they willn't want to be my friends even have them a brothers is christ

And yes we are people to and others need to stop persecuting us.
 
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Helo said:
Gays are people too

Yes, they are. Thanks for posting this.

I've noticed that straight Swedes are much more accepting of gays than straight Americans on average, and I have seen no downside to this.
 
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