**>GAY PRIDE EVERYONE!!!!!!

**>If homosexuality is a sin against Nature,
Then heterosexuality is a crime against Humanity.

**>Support gay marriage.

**>If homosexuality is a sin, then so is love itself. (Lonewolfess)

**>If gays were allowed to marry, the government would benefit a lot more. More money for them......

**>The bible does not say that homosexuality itself is a sin. What it says is that homosexual prostitution is a sin.

**>Back in the B.C. (hehe), Greeks supported homosexuality. Actually, it was considered not only normal, but almost required for a man to have a same-sex partner. Usually it was a boy of 15 to about 22 in a relationship with a man 23 or older. These were completely normal and looked upon as usual routine.

**> There have been many writings of royal kings, queens and others have homosexual relationships along with heterosexual relationships and being entirely accepted for it.

**>Until 324 A.D., homosexual marriages were common in Roman life until emperor Constintius II outlawed them.

**>On October 7, 1998 a boy named Matthew Shepard was in a bar in a town called Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew was 21. Two boys, Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson, decided to pretend to be gay and lure him into their car. Matthew was very innocent and gullible for a person his age, so he trusted the men. McKinney and Henderson drove just outside of Laramie. Feeling they were safe, they suddenly turned on Matthew. They beat him and took his shoes and tied him to split-rail fence. Almost 18 hours later he was found by a cyclist who had just happened to turn down that road. The man mistook him for a scarecrow untill he saw Matthew's hair. Matthew was taken to the hospital, where he died on October 12, 1998. The attention to his murder was nation-wide. Though Matthew's death was a tragedy, it opened the world's eyes to the fact that hate crimes happen every day, and every town has people who hate.

**>Almost exactly four years later, on October 4, 2002, a seventeen year old girl named Gwen Araujo was at a party in Newark, California. Her supposed friends thought they knew her. She had had sexual relations with many of them. But one of the friends knew something the rest didn't. Paul Merel's girlfriend was at the party. She somehow checked Gwen's genitalia in the bathroom of the house, though the court account doesnt record how. She discovered that Gwen was, in fact, Eddie Araujo, a transgender. She told her Paul, who in turn told Jason Cazares, Mike Magidson, Jaron Nabors and  his younger brother, Jose Merel. They forcibly checked Gwen's genitalia, and after discovering this was true, became enraged. Mike Magidson began to choke her in the hallway.Other guests that had been there began to leave. Once everyone had left, three people began to assault Gwen Araujo. Jose Merel struck her over the head with a frying pan and again with a can of tomatoes, leaving a gash in her head which bled profusely. Jaron Nabors hit her with a barbell weight. Mike Magidson kneed her head into the living room wall. The blow was so forceful that her head caused a dent in the wall. Araujo was taken into the garage of the home, where she was strangled by a rope. (Stories conflict on whether she was strangled by Mike Magdison or Jaron Nabors). She was then hog-tied, wrapped in a blanket and put in the bed of Mike Magdison's pickup truck. They drove her body to a parkland in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada called Silver Fork and buried her in a shallow grave. Almost three weeks passed. Finally Jason Nabors slipped a word to a friend. The friend called the police, a Jason Nabors was arrested. The police were led to Gwen's grave on October 16, 2002. The rest of her assailants were charged for murder and hate crime.

**> In 1993, a young man named Pedro Zamora was on the 3rd season of MTV'sThe Real World. Pedro was an HIV positive homosexual. He was an immigrant from Cuba, and most of his family was still in Cuba. His mother had died when he was young. Looking for a new source of love, he had let himself be taken advantage of by older men. No one had educated him about AIDS. When he was 19, he tested positive for the HIV virus. But he decided to live with HIV. He was an AIDS educator who gave lectures to schools and businesses. He decided to go on the Real World to get a wider audience and prove that HIV positive people are just like everyone else. He did this. While on the TV show, he met a man named Sean Sasser. After a few dates, they fell in love. Both men were HIV positive, and both worked to raise awareness about AIDS, HIV and GLBT people. A few months later, Sean asked Pedro to marry him. Pedro accepted. Only a few years after they were married, Pedro fell ill. Though in the end, he did not make it, he had left a legacy of awareness behind. His friends became AIDS educators in Pedro's place. And they created new foundations for AIDS research and awareness. Pedro's legacy lives on in the graphic novel "Pedro and Me" by Judd Winick.

**> How many people know the real meaning of the word "fag?" Not many. Fag means "bundle of sticks." Why are gay men called fags? Because during the witch hunts and witch burnings, the people wouldn't just use wood to burn the accused "witches." They would also tie up accused gay men and lay them at the feet of the witches, upon the wood. They would then light the men on fire, signifying that gay men were even worse sinners than the "witches." Over half the men and women burned were not gay nor were they witches.

**> Almost no one knows where the term dyke came from. Most people think its those walls in Holland used to keep water back. Those are spelled dike. Dyke is actually the Roman goddess of Justice.

**> Usual we just hear the term 'GLBT,' but there are many more than that:
- Gay: rather self-explanitory. When a male has a sexual or amourous attraction to another male.
-Lesbian: also self-explanitory. When a female has a sexual or amourous attraction to another female
-Bisexual: a person who is emotional and physically attracted to members of any sex.
-Pansexual:A person who is attracted to people of all genders, but does not believe in a dichotomous sense of gender.
-Asexual: not attracted to anyone of any gender.
-Questioning: a person who is uncertain of their sexual orientation, and is giving thought or leaving it unsure.

**> Most of the time we hear the genders "male" and "female," but there are so many more:
-Transgender: those without a specific gender label.
-Transsexual: An individual with a gender identity that is opposite to that conventionally associated with his or her biological sex.
-Intersexed/Intersexual:  person who is born between (inter) sexes, having partially or fully developed pairs of female and male sex organs. Also the term 'hermaphrodite.'
-Androgyne: feeling sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes neither.
-Gender Outlaw: A person who defies traditional gender roles by refusing to be defined by conventional definitions of man and woman
- Gender Fluid:- a person who feels like they identify with both male and females, and can fluidly change between them.
-Neutrois:a person who feels as if they have no gender
- Female-to-Male: A transsexual person who is biologically female, but feels as though they are male. Often people who refer to themselves as female-to-male(FtM, F2M) are beginning to go through transition or have already been through transition.
- Male-to-Female: A transsexual person who is biologically male, but feels as though they are female. Often people who refer to themselves as male-to-female (MtF) are beginning to or have already gone through transition.
-Cross-dresser: Not exactly a gender, nor a sexual orientation. It is a person who enjoys recreationally dressing as the opposite sex. Sometimes this infatuation has some sort of sexual pleasure attached to it, sometimes it is just generally entertaining to the individual.

**>The Pentagon still has homosexuality listed as a mental disorder, and has no intention of changing it.

**> States who have legalized gay marriage: Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Connecticut

**> On May 15, 2008, gay marriage was legalized in California. On November 4, 2008, Proposition 8 banned gay marriage. On May 9, Proposition 8 was upheld by the Supreme court.

**>Homosexuality isn't a disease. Homophobia seems more like the disease to me.(Sctiive)

**> At almost every school, students who are gay/are believed to be gay are harassed more than overweight or fat students, and students with disabilities, combined.

**> Most schools do not cover sexual orientation in their anti-discrimination policies. Only nine states have anti-bullying laws that specifically address sexual orientation.

**> Think about how many times you hear the sentences "You fag." "You're such a fag." "That's so gay." "Yeah, it was so gay." Next time your in school, count how many times you hear this. THEN count how many people who say this are your friends.

**> Why is it so wrong to marry the same sex? Isn't it worse to marry your own cousin (incest is a sin in the bible as well) or a man fifty years to your twenty, or marry someone just for his or her money?

**> GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) youth make up over 30% of suicides each year.

**> every 5 hours and 48 minutes, a GLBT youth commits successful suicide

**> Every 14 minutes, a GLBT youth attempts suicide

**> Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not special rights. They are endowed to everyone and include marriage, too.

**>Many people don't realize how much of a financial problem gay couples have because they cannot be married. Insurance companies do not recognize them as couples. They have to get insurance for themselves, they cannot get it together. Thats a lot of money to pay.

**> Many kids are not out of the closet as gay because they are afraid of looks they will get in the hallways, names they will be called, etc. Why make their life scarier and more stressful than a regular teenager's life is?

**> STRAIGHT PEOPLE- TRY THIS. Imagine you have a deep dark secret. It can be anything, it doesn't matter. Now imagine that if you told people this secret you would be ridiculed, hated, looked at like you are a freak. Imagine how badly you want to tell someone your secret. Imagine your fear of a persons reaction if you tell them your secret. Imagine you tell someone the secret, but it leaks out and soon everyone knows. Imagine people whispering and pointing at you as you walk down the hall. Imagine people staring at you as if your a freak, as if there is something wrong with you. Imagine people throwing their lunches at you or spitting on you as you walk across the courtyard at lunch. Imagine people taunting you with names that hurt you like a bullet. Now open your eyes. Gays go through this every day. We don't have to imagine. For us, its reality.

**> {I'm a bi who wishes she was straight
because i'm sick of hiding, sick of the heartache
and i'm tired of not knowing what will happen
what friends i'll lose next
what words i'll let slip
and what questions i have to avoid answering.} -1337M457312

**>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 gay kid who is lost, unsure of who or what he is meant to be or do, but worries most about telling his parents.}-garrinok

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.

{I am the boy who, after realizing I was gay, cried for hours in a shower because the knife wouldn't cut deep enough.

I am the boy who will never get permission to marry his boyfriend because his parents kicked him out a week after he came out.

I am the guy you threw against lockers, walls, poles, ect., for 5 years until I couldn't take it and had to transfer school districts.

I am the guy with the world on his shoulders because so many people couldn't stand the thought of anybody else knowing.

I am the guy who brought his boyfriend to prom and then got jumped in the parking lot.

I am the stereotype.}-winddancer16

{Winddancer16 says: Update: I'm much happier at an alternative school. It's more accepting and I rarely hear the words fag or dyke unless they're people i love kidding around and stuff. It's stopped bothering me as much.
I was told by my dean of students that I shouldn't give tours of my school while dressed in drag because "we don't want to give the impression that this is an everyday sort of thing". It made me so uncomfortable with being myself. But I answered back "What if this is someone's everyday sort of thing?" He was floored and almost sent me home for the day, threatened with dropping me from school for the hexter.
I gave the tour anyway and the woman we were giving a tour to ended up being sponsor of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at a local high school. The dean of students never apologized.
Winddancer16 says: I've moved out and am now living on my own. I graduated High School and my boyfriend walked me to the stage for my graduation as my escourt...we broke up...we got back together...we broke up...we got back together...ect...and now i work for a tanning salon...and walked in Denver's Pride parade under my company name and am proud to work for such a supporting company. <3

I am the love you can't feel.
I am the boy you beat daily for years.
I am proud of who I am, and for that,
I am better than you. Period.}

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

{I am the girl who confided in my best friend whom i thought could tell me anything, only to be betrayed.}- I-have-a-soul-too

{"I am the boy who is hated by his father, exiled by his church, constantly a worry to his mother, a complete social reject, who has no one to confide in save his closest friend, I'm also the guy who is threatened daily with death in front of teachers who refuse to do anything for fear of "Being pulled into the Gay thing", who is a pacifist forced to either harm others or be beaten and die. I hate being hated ...." )- OdenBell

{I'm the gay boy who was punched in the face by my best friend for telling the truth.}-Pokelova

{I am a straight girl who is disgusted with the hate and ridicule and torment the GLBT community has to put up with because of closed-minded, homophobic, and/or bible-thumping idiots.}-night-wraith

I am the straight girl who has to remind her sister that a man with a mildly feminine voice does not make them gay.

I am the straight girl who laughs when a kid at my school calls another kid a "faggot".

I am the straight girl who gets whispers from her art class when she displays art of an attractive women to her classmates.

I am the straight girl who gets told she's going to Hell by another girl because she has no problem with gays.

I am the straight girl who sometimes feels like a boy.

I am the straight girl who tells people that are intolerant of gays that they are going to Hell because God wants us to love each other.

I am the straight girl who once cried because a child at a psychiatric hospital was sent there by his mother because he is gay.

I am the straight girl who's family would not care if I was homosexual.}-madcowyup

{I'm a bi-sexual girl who is struggling to tell my family. The only person who knows is my bi-sexual cousin and that's because she understands.}- teddy16426

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 gay teenager who cant tell his school who he really is, because he is afraid of what they will do to him

i am the gay athlete who wants to use the locker room, but hears the ridicule of homosexuality just outside the door

i am the gay friend that only has a few people who actually care, but hardly get to see

i am the gay boy that wants to cry when he hears fag, gay, or homo in a way that makes me feel less humane}-dogboi22

{I'm the guy who told his bestfriend that he was a gay, and the only answer that he got was "How long will you be like this?"}- silent-vlaad

{I'm the guy who lives in fear of coming out to his parents because they're hateful towards gays...
I'm the guy who lives in pain of living a lie just to fit in with society...
I'm the guy who lives in a secret because his co-workers make fun of gays and fags...
I'm the guy who stopped going to church because gays are supposedly condemned to Hell...
I'm the guy who is confused by his religion because of hypocrites who don't show Biblical love...
I'm the "straight guy" everyone loves, and the guy they're jokes hurt....
I'm the guy that wants to change the world with his photographs, but won't because he is gay...} -Andrew Hall (supergeek2therescue)

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'm the girl that had to beg her disturbed mother not to tell her dad, afraid he'd kick her out. I'm the girl no one would look at after they found out. I'm the girl that got thrown out of a boat into a lake because she told he best friend she was bisexual. I'm the girl that had to walk home in the rain because her cousin didn't want to be seen with her infront of his friends. I'm the girl who wishes at least once a month that she hadn't been found trying to commit sucide in her bathroom.}~LifeIsSocialSucide

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'm the girl who was scoffed at by her teacher when she confided in her she might have a crush on a girl.} - RejectifiedTomato

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 girl nearly trampled by people trying to confirm rumors, I am the girl terrified to tell my family because I'll end up like my mother, outcast. I am the girl who loves my best friend, and if anyone found out, I would be left on the streets."}-BlackRoseMyou

{I am the bisexual girl who came out to her parents and knew that they didnt get it
i am the girl who cant tell her brother that she has a girlfriend because he's a homophobic twat
i am the girl who has to stop holding her girlfrind when her parents come in coz they dont know about her
i am the girl who doesnt care what they think
and will stand up for me and my friends forever
and never give up
and always be proud}-piano-flames

{i am the girl who, at the age of 9, asked her mother if it was okay to be gay. she replied, "if that's what makes a person happy, of course it is."}-Guitargrl131

{i'm a lesbian and i hate having to hide but i feel like i cant tell my parents, they are huge religious mormon people and i feel like they wouldn't accept me. i don't really care what the school thinks, they can all go die, there is way tomany hicks and hillbillys here for my taste, but my parents are the ones i'm terrified to tell.}-xxx-Momo-Shikiro-xxx

{i'm the girl that has her parents make fun of bisexuals and gays and are way to afraid to tell them"}- lid009

{Im the Bi guy that is scared by the dead memories of his father saying him that if I were gay, he'll leave me to die hanging upside down from a tree.}-cacai230

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I
want to avoid getting the management called on me.

{I'm the girl told by her own parents that gays are going to hell.

They don't know, and hopefully they never will know, that I'm dating the girl across the street.}-azamystic

{i am the guy who after withstanding atmospheres of pressure and stress will either succumb and die or rise above it to a happy life in 3 months when i tell my family and anyone else who asks me that i like guys}-superblooper123

{I am the girl admired by half her year, loathed by the other half. I am the girl who answers their questions over and over to prove to them that she is not ashamed!

...I am the girl who is talked about behind her back, who is given looks from all around every time someone mentions homosexuality. I am the girl who was landed in counseling because she doesn't know who she is anymore, who desperately fears that the rumours will trickle down the years to her sister and her friends, and that her homophobic parents will somehow find out.

I am the girl dumped by the only person she has ever loved, and left with nothing but the ongoing stigma to remember her by.

I want to be the girl to make you see reason and give people like me the rights we deserve.}-Kurissyma


{i am a bi-sexual boy,with a gay uncle and a gay aunt, who is to scared to tell his friends but mostly his dad that he is bi-sexual.}-macdizl

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 girl who hides under lies just to feel that she belongs.

I am the girl that lost her two best friends because they were gay as well.

I am the girl that spent heart breaking nights holding her gay cousin until he cried himself to sleep. } -MinionK

{I am the girl who lost her best friend because she found out she had a crush on her.

I am the kid whose own parents told her that she was going to hell.

I am the girl who gets in trouble with her parents for wearing a rainbow colored belt and hanging a poster of Freddie Mercury on her wall.}- kuroi-nekochan

{I am the girl who is transgender but is afraid to tell her parents for fear of how they would respond.}-shadow9099

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 straight guy who, after reading the whole darn thing, more strongly than ever, believes that homophobia, hate crimes, etc. are completely irrational}- Nin-jueTheKirin

{I'm the transexual who must dress like the girl i know i am not, just to please my family.}- dementor88

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

{I am the girl who sits up all night crying because her mother could never love a lesbian.

I am the girl who walks through the halls getting told to kill myself because being a lesbian is "not right".

I am the girl who tried to kill herself because her mother told her she is worth nothing any more and needs help.}- amyxcore

{I am the girl who first realized that she was a freak when she realized that lesbians are a minority.
I am the girl who cannot come out to her school because she's afraid of being lynched.
I am the girl who will die alone because I have no beloved.}- MochaCocaFan

{I am the girl who is afraid to go home from college on break because thats when I have to start lying again.}-Kumabee

{I'm the girl who thinks I'm bi-curious, but to afraid to talk to anyone about it, since I could lose the people I love...}- superHyperjellyBean

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


{I'm the girl who let the only person she loved, marry someone else because she's afraid of Hell.}Ataia-ue

{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.} - cranberrymelon
{Cranberrymelon says: I am a person who knows that saying a girl isn't enough to describe what's inside.

I am the one who's parents think that her life would be a win-win if she was bisexual because then she could marry some rich guy and still 'screw around' with other girls.

I am not someone thinking that this is the best that I can be. I now know how much better things in my life can be, but mostly because I live in another state as my parents.

I am and

I am not.

I am the one who tells even others in her queer community that there is more than being bi, gay, or a lesbian.

I am who doesn't need a hug after every bad memory or situation. I am the one who explains and translates the feelings inside of our group of people who wants to listen.

I am one of the many hoping for New York to pull through before I turn twenty.}

{im the guy who when he came out to his friends, they accepted me, but when to my parents had them say they love me, but that they dont want me to bring any boyfriend i have around. im the guy who lives in a narrow minded town and goes to a Highschool where im one of the few who is open enough for a relationship. i never know where to look or who i could even remotly think of as anything more then a friend. im the guy who gets his hopes up only to always have them shattered and in the end im alone still, friends that can do little more then tell me that it sucks and try and cheer me up. i never have a special someone, i sometimes wish i was just straight, i could look at girls and have girlfriends rather then tell them im not interested or that i dont like them that way. im so sick of being alone. but what can i do ? if i be anymore open ill get treated like a freak and outcast by the world. so i stay quiet and i remain alone all out of fear of what could happen if i do anything more to try and find someone.}- chaose04

{i am the guy who's different, proud of it, and sick of the hate"}- Wildspin
{I am the girl who feels safe enough to be who I am because I have a mother who is willing to stand up for everything I believe in. Gay Pride 4 Eva <3}- Aeslya

{I am the girl with a hole in her heart that grows deeper everytime she hears how wrong it is for her to fall in love,the girl living a lie}anime-fan-lover

{I'm the dyke who can't get a girlfriend because in my town everyone is scared and hiding, and I couldn't live my life as a lie.

I'm the dyke who got attacked on the way home from school because wearing a Pride t-shirt.

I'm the dyke who got told by my grandmother that I should "keep my mouth shut, or the neighbours will think I'm gay".

I'm the dyke who tried to start a GSA-like group in her school and almost got kicked out by the vice-director.

I'm the blogger who got threatened with expellation from school because of an outraged post about LGBT discrimination.

I'm the dyke who fell in love with her best friend and the girl suddenly disappeared from her buddy list when she confessed.

I'm the person you can believe when I say being an autistic dyke is a deadly serious thing and harder than most of you straight-and-normal people could imagine.}- LilianMarvolo

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

{I am the boy whose parents screwed him out of going to college because they didn't want him moving away with his boyfriend.}-Frogg3862

{I am the girl who lost her best friend because she found out she had a crush on her.}-blackRabbit4

{Am the girl who have a gay/lesvian friend and is Proud of he/she}- calisotalatina

{I'm a lesbian, that my own mother told me that she would accept me even if i was a lesbian and after i told her i ended up in a fight with her, and treated differently after that.
I am a lesbian, Whose mother told her: so now we go for guys only ayy? after i told her i broke up with my girlfriend.
I am a lesbian,that is afraid to tell the rest of my family the truth, cuz my dad thinks being gay or lesbian is wrong and makes fun of them.
I'm a lesbian who wonders: who will love me when my own mother won't?(even tho she wont admit it)~Eli~}- Bathory1431

{I''m the girl who was ready to tell my friends when they started talking about how unnatural and disgusting being gay is.}-squintsquad

{I am the girl who grew up thinking she would go to Hell if she was Lesbian and ended up blaming God because of it.

I am the girl who told her mother that she was lesbian and whose mother told her that she'd "Grow out of it."

I am the girl whose first crush was a religeous girl, lost that friend, but still love up to this day.

I am the girl who listens to her dad talk about, in the car, how wrong it is to be gay or lesbian and and cry quietly in the backseat.

I am the girl who lies everyday so she doesn't need to cry.}- Kirii

{So I'm the straight girl that loves her gay/ lesbian friends and believes that being bisexual just doubles your chances at finding love : ) }-Chloeatspinach

{I'm the girl who is a boy inside but is too scared to confide in her family and friends in fear of being told 'It's just a phase' or 'A silly fantasy'.}-RamokRew

{I'm the girl no one knows about
I'm the girl who calls herself Damned
I'm the girl who came out to her mother and was asked "How do you know?"
I'm the girl who has homophobic friends but is dying to come out to them
I'm the girl who is in love with two of her friends
I'm the girl who was told not to tell anyone
I'm the girl who's always alone
I'm the girl still in hiding
I'm the girl who wants to be loved}-xSpicaX

{I am a lesbian who is in love with her best friend, but doesn't know how to tell her. I am a lesbian who has a lesbian friend that came out of the closet and is shunned, but I get to live in relative peace. I am a lesbian that was abused by her grandmother when I was younger, and made almost asexual. I am a lesbian and proud ^^}-otakunoodles

{I'm the girl that gets called a 'dirty lesbian' on the school bus, and everyone laughs.
I'm the girl whose rainbow wristband makes people back away.}- dolphin64575

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

{I am the girl who is not out of the closet and sits in class listening to others call the people who are dykes and fags, and who were her best friends until her mother found out and 'spoke' to her about not making friends with 'those kinds of people.')- maus09

{i'm the girl that has her parents make fun of bisexuals and gays and are way to afraid to tell them"}- lid009

{I am the boy who has to imagine a man at his side to fall asleep at night.

I am the boy who is constantly reminded that what he feels is wrong.

I am the boy, who, in my homeland, can be hung for what I feel.}-Kody-Boye

{“I am a bisexual female who thinks it shouldn’t matter what your soul mate looks like. It’s love. Everyday I hope my family will open their eyes to that. And everyday they disappoint me. Someday I would like to tell my family who I am knowing that’s a monster in their eyes. Someday I would like to find love with another women knowing that the love I give out will be returned with hate and hoping we can pull through it. That we can smile more then shedding tears. But right now I can‘t smile. It hurts to much.”}- 9tailedfox

{I am the teenage girl who thinks that she is pan sexual.
I am the girl who asked her parents if she could date a girl out of respect for their parenting.
I am the girl who had her step mother tell her that she would end up dead in a stream somewhere.
I am the girl who was told by her parents that girls don't wear other girls rings around their necks
I am the girl forced to leave another girl that I loved because they threatened to tell her abusive mother that she was gay.
All to get me to stop going out with her.
I am the girl whom loves girls but has a boyfriend who doesn't treat her right because she is afraid that she might be a lesbian instead.
I am the girl who has no clue
I am the girl who loves the rainbow community and gets looked at weird for it.
I am the teen who has to watch her asian lesbian friend supress herself because she doesn't want to disrespect or dissappoint her parents.
I am just a girl....}- HatrasLover

{I'm the bisexual girl who is happily married to a wonderful man, with a beautiful son.}- gugibufugi

{I'm lesbian and live in an home where more then half of the people are "Homosexuals are the children of Satan"-believing so I can connect in some level to what was written in the deviation.}-TTRAnimus

{I'm a pansexual (no specific religion) girl with a gay Atheist girlfriend that not a soul in my family knows about. The family that is intolerant. It breaks my heart. <Z3}-BloodyAngel21
{I'm a domestic-violence survivor who is tortured every day at school and has lots tens of friends just because I'm a lesbian.}-Lezblackcat

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 transgendered person who almost broke down and started crying when my friends started talking about what the best way to exterminate the "fags" would be.}-apocalypsenow6661313

{I am the girl who wasn't allowed to join the girl scouts because her mom was gay

I am the girl who has to listen to her mom comment on how cute a chick is every time she see's one on the tv.

I am the girl who loves all her gay/straight mates... but wishes her lesbian friend would stop trying to hook up with her *le sigh*}- lilpixi

{I am the girl who is scared to come out to her parents -they might not believe her because she is only 13}- Pairyx

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 outcast girl who has suddenly been overrun by people walking up to me to confirm the rumors.}-RFZT

{I am the gay boy, who confided in one "friend", and is now hated by everyone else because she wasn't able to keep a secret.
I am the kid who is hated by everyone, yet still tries to stay happy. Little does anyone know that I'm dead inside.}- trevorelder


{I am the girlfriend who watches her beloved one struggle every day with the question of whether to tell her parents about me, paralyzed by the knowledge that they will never approve.

I am the girl who doesn't are about labels anymore, and refuses to take any of them.

I am the girl who smiles and laughs with my close friends everyday, but has to keep a secret from them what I want to be shouting from the rooftops, all because they listen when their religion says that two women should not love each other.}- Deku-Baka

{I am the girl whose mother doesn't belive I'm bisexual because I haven't had experiance with anything and that I'm too young to make this conclusion....but I wish my mother hated me more than not believing me.}-ScarTheWolf013

{"I am the daughter of two gay fathers that will never see each other again."}- Yesterday-Fairy

{I am the lesbian who sat at the lunch table, full of rage, when the only friend I came out harassed me for many months, claiming he was "joking", even though I told him it hurt. He always claimed, "It's only a choice for girls." and many more offensive statements.}-Zombizlawlz

{I am the confused child who saw the face of the girl she loved in her mind as she stood on the railing above that frozen lake. I am the girl that had to sit and listen to her crush read the love poem that she had written aloud to the rest of the class in a a mocking voice while they called it "creepy" "stalkerish" "perverted".

I am the girl that learned to flaunt her pride with t-shirts and jewelry after she realized that loving herself was more important than getting the love of those hateful people.}- SioVampire

{I'm the girl/boy who can't make up her/his mind about who s/he is and can't confide in anyone because her/his family is full of homophobes and "normal" people.}- WrathWings
iWrathWings says: I still haven't told anyone because my mother and father were watching a movie and I saw the look on my father's face when a commercial for transexual people came on the screen.
But I'm still strong because I know I'm not alone. My friends will always have my back. No matter what.}

{I am the person who wants to be known not as a 'woman' but as a human being, neither one nor the other. People don't get that.

I am the person who gets random people trying to 'convert' hir (<-- gender-neutral pronoun!) to falling for them even though they themselves aren't serious about it themselves just because they've heard xie's asexual.

I am the person who desperately wishes there were better gender-neutral pronouns in our language that don't sound like they're from outer space. Dammit. >.<}- BluebellBlood

{"I am the girl whose grandmother told her that if she was gay, she'd beat her. In front of church."} –Rockpapsii

{I am the bi-sexual girl who is afraid to tell her best friend she loves her, for fear of the worlds concequences.}- Toshiyuri-chan

{I am the lesbian who can't be with the one she loves because the other girl's parents don't want that kind of "blemish" on their family.}- Kano-Arina

{I'm the lesbian... who plucked up the courage to tell her parents, only to find herself scoffed at, told to be going through a phase, told be making things up, to be lying. I'm the lesbian that was told it was okay by her mother, but whose father hasn't been able to look at with kind eyes since... it's been 3 years now.}- xtheSoundofWhitex

{I am the boy, no longer afraid, and no longer confused
I am the boy whose mother is the only one left that doesn't know
I am the boy who will remain strong no matter the outcome
Because I am the boy who is loved by another boy}-AriezFire

{'m the bisexual-going-on-lesbian girl who loves all her brothers and sisters and wants them to know that we're strong, we're perfect, and we're not alone.}- StaircaseWit

{I'm a lesbian who lost her mother at the age of 8, hates her step-mother, and fears coming out to her father, who is not only homophobic, but racist. My most successful relationship only lasted 2 months, but made me the happiest. It was with a bisexual and mulatto girl who is still my best friend. I wonder each day what would happen if I did come out to my father, but with the fear of losing his trust, I've hidden myself for the past 3 years.}- NicoleVanDort

{i am the girl who asked her principal for a club application for an LGBT club, then saw a look of genuine disgust and hate cross his eyes.}- robot-factory

{I am a girl who told her mom at 11:46 on New Years Eve that I was gay hoping to start the new year out with the truth so I no longer had to hide. My 2009 year began with the tears of rejection after my mothers reply was 'better start praying to Jesus'} Resue-Is-Possible

{i am the boy that has to lie to his family , to his friends, to everyone cause they will hate me .

i am the boy that his father told him that gays are unatural beings and they molest kids.

i am the boy is that is so confused because of this society

i am the boy that will die in 9 years and i havent even discovered myself

i am the boy that fears his father

i am the boy....

i am the boy....

i am the boy....

i am the boy.... that decided this world is rotten

i am the boy.... that cant watch anymore people pushing around other people

i am the boy.... i am the boy that had enough

i am the boy.... that will do something about it because i cant stand it anymore . i cant stand that feeling of emptiness in my heart i gigantic void that is growing

you bet your ass that the boy has kept his mouth closed for a long time

but no more}- kiradante

{I am the girl who told her mother with complete confidence that I was a lesbian, and that confidence was soon ruined leaving me alone, what has this world come to?

I am the lesbian who no longer knows where she will sleep at night.

I am the girl who when asked, 'What's it like to be a lesbian?' replies with, 'What's it like to be straight?'}- stupid-bitch

{i am the girl who is scared to talk with anyone about it
i am the girl who is scared to go to her church in fear of being shunned
i am the girl who does not want to lose her friends because they think shes "weird"
i am the girl that is bi but tries to hide}-artysanniegirl

{I'm the girl who is afraid of telling her family she is bi and has a crush on a girl, not for fear of violence but of constant questions that I can get especially when I came out as an atheist.}-paradisekisses

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most... LOVE!

{I am the loner who seemingly ignores the rumors, even though they cut deeper than anything.
They can take me away, they can force me to live with my abusive dad, they can do everything they can to me, but my bond with her will not be broken. Because I am the girl who refuses to give up because she knows there's a better life ahead.}-Lonewolfess

{Lonewolfess says: As my sweetheart said, things have gotten better. We don't hear as many people at school on our backs since we started openly admitting it. Heck, a few of the people who used to harrass bookfairy on the bus even apologized and her /brother/ stood up for her once. Only thing that really hurt recently...I finally admitted it to thoughs nosy idiots in art that I was with a girl and straightened out the rumors. I dunno how it happened but apparently the news got down to my brother's grade (fifth) and since some of his friends know me, they started getting on his case. Then my parents, the ones who always told me not to care what others think, pretty much told me I was an embarressment and that I shouldn't "brodcast family issues". Family issues my foot...My parents and my bro are the only ones in my family that know, and now even my mom is trying to tell me I shouldn't "brodcast" it. Even though there's a pattern at my school. If you give the impression that you care what people think and deny it, they're gonna rag you about it. If you just say "Yeah i'm with her. What of it?" They leave you alone and actually start respecting you a little more. There's just no way out of it. But i'll live through it if it means keeping my beloved bookfairy.}
{Lonewolfess says: Update: It seems my mom has become a bit more accepting of who I am, but my dad isn't and I recently found out my own brother is a raving homophobic who talks often about beating up people for being gay...He even said he'd walk away from his best friend forever if he ever found out he was gay...I can't wait to get out of here!
I am the lesbian who doesn't give a damn what people think of her, yet has to care what her parents think because they still run my life.
I am the lesbian who wants nothing more than to see her beloved but can't because her parents constently make up excuses why she can't go.
I am the lesbian who actually speaks up when someone uses "that's so gay" as an insult.
I am the lesbian who uses gay/les characters in her stories like any normal couple.
I am the lesbian who can be herself at school and with her friends, but has to hide at home.}

{I'm the girl who can't be myself because I'm scared I'll be shunned by my family and my friends.
"I'm the girl who lost the one she loved the most because her family wouldn't let me see her."

"I'm the bisexual girl going on lesbian who can't be honest with her family because they'll shun her in the end."
"If you can't love me for me, even if I'm lesbian, then you can't love me at all."}-bookfairy14

{Bookfairy14 says: Just update things have gotten better. Most of my friends and extended family (not blood related but still family) know about me and my girlfriend and suppport us. My mom is being diffucult still but I think it might be for different reasons than I thought.
Here's a new quote I thought of if you want to use it.
"Your life is what you make of it. So live life without regrets no matter what anyone says."}


I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends that I am 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"


**>Now you can think about all this. Maybe you'll change your mind, maybe you wont. Maybe you already support GLBT people. If you do YAY! Good for you! I give you a virtual hug and kiss(since I cant exactly reach someone from a computer screen. haha).