Homophobia
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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 woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual. (yes, this actually happened: see below)
I am the boy who is constantly hararased in school because being bi isn`t socially acceptable.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a such 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."
R.I.P -- Matthew Shepard
David Morley
Jody Dobrowski
Brandon Teena
Tyra Hunter
Barry Winchell
Robert Eads
they are only the few we remember coz they died - we need to recognise this is a bigger problem than everyone makes out!!!!
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An Alternative View - Remembering the forgotten
By: Jason Evans, Staff Columnist
Imagine driving home one night when you're suddenly involved in an auto accident. Your injuries will prove fatal without proper medical treatment. Thankfully, EMT's arrive on the scene as you regain consciousness. They approach you, begin to administer treatment... but then suddenly stop! You're horrified as they back away.
A gathering crowd is pleading with them to "get to work," but instead the EMT's ridicule and taunt you. A supervisor finally arrives to find you crawling away from your harassers. The EMT's are at last ordered to "get to work or lose their jobs." But their efforts are reluctant, negligible, delayed. You later die in the Emergency Room as a result. All of this simply because the EMT's didn't like how you were dressed.
Is such a scenario absurd? Unfortunately not. It happened to Tyra Hunter in Washington D.C. on Aug. 7, 1995. Tyra was a pre-op transsexual female, and the EMT's, upon removing her clothing, found that she had a penis. They felt that gave them the right to refuse treating her, and so they harassed her even as she lay dying.
Dozens of scenarios like this occur annually in America. In August of 2001, Willie Houston was beaten to death after standing outside of a restroom waiting for his wife. His crime? He'd been holding his wife's purse when he decided to assist a blind gentleman into the men's room. On July 5, 1999, PFC Barry Winchell was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by another soldier in his platoon. His crime? He was dating a transgender female. In January of 1999, Robert Eads died of cancer after 20 doctors refused to treat him. Why? He was a transgender male. -
let's put it this way...
hatred is wrong..
simple as that..
just because someone is different from you...
the stupidity of it all is amazing..
what is different from you, you don't understand
what you don't understand, you fear
what you fear, you hate
if the person is different from you, don't hate.. go find out...
hatred... because the person is different, stems from caveman/tribes mentality... where a different person, a stranger = danger...
the world isn't like that anymore...
go find out... and leave the hatred behind.. -
You sound like YodaOriginally posted by the Bear:let's put it this way...
what is different from you, you don't understand
what you don't understand, you fear
what you fear, you hate
Anyway jokes aside, it's easier said than done. Senseless and stupid? I guess it will continue because to most, as long as someone else is different you disrupt their mindset on what is normal
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very much agreed.Originally posted by the Bear:let's put it this way...
hatred is wrong..
simple as that..
just because someone is different from you...
the stupidity of it all is amazing..
what is different from you, you don't understand
what you don't understand, you fear
what you fear, you hate
if the person is different from you, don't hate.. go find out...
hatred... because the person is different, stems from caveman/tribes mentality... where a different person, a stranger = danger...
the world isn't like that anymore...
go find out... and leave the hatred behind.. -
I dont mind homosexual friends. Unless of course they come after me
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Everyone should be treated as a living breathing human being first and foremost.Where's the humanity in letting one person die just because you disagree with his/her orientation?
It's not easy, but all they want from us is just that we see them as fellow humans.Nothing more. -
I believe you should see it the same as a chick than you have no desire for coming after you.Originally posted by alexkusu:I dont mind homosexual friends. Unless of course they come after me
I mean whats the difference between a guy hitting on you and a chick hitting on you.
Take it as a compliment, smile and walk away.
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sadly i cannot say the same for certain old bastards like MRMUSICP******* or Oxford Mush****Originally posted by LazerLordz:Everyone should be treated as a living breathing human being first and foremost.Where's the humanity in letting one person die just because you disagree with his/her orientation?
It's not easy, but all they want from us is just that we see them as fellow humans.Nothing more.