I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag 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 no one will hire a transsexual woman

I am the sister who holds her brother 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 in 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 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 to avoid getting management called on me

I am the mother who is not even allowed to 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 didn't always have to 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"

IF YOU BELIEVE HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG, REPOST THIS ON YOUR BLOG/JOURNAL

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I believe it is wrong because I have lived with it. Not that I'm homosexual, I've simply been accused of being such. And I've seen people form anti-lesbian/gay clubs to "deal with it". There is nothing to deal with, is there? Maybe love is a sin, but if it is it is only because it is selfish to the extent of being such. I don't think it has got anything to do with who you love.

What do you believe?

"愛が不正。"Ai ga fusei" - Love is a sin."