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I saw this journal by chance while visiting ~digimagicnb's profile to thank her for a fav and was quite touched by it. I am not gay but do believe that just because someone else is doesn't mean they should be treated any differently.

From ~digimagicnb's Journal

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 transsexual.
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


Dan
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~Aseamlessbonds Sep 19, 2010  Student General Artist
Very deep, and sadly very tru :nod: I helped my brother in law come out to his mother, and it was the most educational experience for me. He comes from Zimbabwe, and can not for his lifes sake ever let anyone over there know, otherwise when he goes back, he could be arrested and thrown into prison, and would probably die there :( He has done so much charity work for children, and his biggest sadness is that he can't have any of his own, or I should say wont, he has female friends who would bear a child for him, but he wont raise a child without a proper family, i.e. both biological parents, but if he could he would adopt...And that is in itself a sadness, with so many children needing adoptive caring parents, many stuck in childrens homes where they will (as has been shown many times) be abused :no::(
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*da-joint-stock Sep 19, 2010  Student General Artist
That's very sad indeed... We've all heard stories of such cruelty and yet rarely does it happen to anyone we know - even if just over the internet.

Also true and very sad :(
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~Aseamlessbonds Sep 19, 2010  Student General Artist
I think that on the whole younger people are more open minded about things, so maybe there's hope. :hug:
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*da-joint-stock Sep 20, 2010  Student General Artist
Lets hope so :huggle:
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~Aseamlessbonds Sep 20, 2010  Student General Artist
:nod::huggle:
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:icongppr:
It's touching indeed. And very sad.
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*da-joint-stock Sep 14, 2010  Student General Artist
It is...and few take any notice :no:
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=PietschPhotography Sep 13, 2010  Professional Artisan Crafter
That's deep. I reposted on my site.
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*da-joint-stock Sep 14, 2010  Student General Artist
:nod:
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