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I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a f** 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 adolescent in college that got refused a basketball scholarship when they said found out I would be 'too much of a distraction'... despite getting a 3.9 GPA.


I am the man that was kicked out of the military for being homosexual.. Apparently, it's against coded conduct to hug a crying soldier.


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.


I am the man who fears that I will never be able to be myself, to be free of this secret because I won't risk losing my family and friends.


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 EMT's 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.


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'

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