Homophobia

Whether you like homosexual or not, you should still re-post this to support your firneds and loved ones who are.

Love is not defined by color, creed, or gender.

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 women.

I am the boy who never finished highschool because I got called a fag everyday.

I am the girl who got kicked out of her home because I confided i my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working on the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual women.

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 bfore her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of 27 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 highschool. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had their realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who nevr knows which bathroom I should use to avoid getting management called on me.

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

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other males.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the women who died when the EMT's stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think that I would be a much better person if I didn't have to deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped going to church, not because I didn't beleive, but because they stopped opening their doors to my kind.

I am a warrior, serving my country proud, but can't be my true self because gays aren't allowed in the military.

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

I am the daughter of Catholic parents who is afraid to tell them who I am because of fear that they won't love me anymore.

I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends I'm 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."

This is the boy, Matthew Shepard.

On October 7, 1998, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson lead him to a remote area, east of Lamarie where they demonstrated unimaginable acts of hate.

Matthew was tied to a split rail fence where he was left to die in the cold of the night.

Almost 18 hours later, he was found by a cyclist who had initialy mistook him for a scarecrow. Matthew died on October 12, at 12:53 AM at a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.

KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS GAY.

IF YOU BELEIVE THAT HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG, RE-POST THIS AS "HOMOPHOBIA".