I Am...

Read this on a Facebook group called "Homosexuality is NOT a choice, but homophobia is."had to share it with you all.

• I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag every day.

• I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

• I am the guy that lives on the streets because I am scared to go home.

• I am the prostitute working the streets because I can't find anybody who 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.

• I am the child that dreams of seeing my mum again. The courts won’t let me because she lives with another woman.

• 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 loosing 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 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 brother that gets called a fag just because my brother isn’t ashamed of who he is.

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

• I am the girl that was raped behind my school because some stranger wanted to teach me to be a “real woman”.

• I am the guy down the street that can’t get a disability pension because my partner is a man.

• I am the woman who died when the paramedics stopped treating me because they found out I didn't have a female body.

• I am the man that is afraid of losing his job, for expressing his true identity.

• I am the mother that sees my son come home from school every day in tears because the other kids call him a girl.

• I am the celebrity that wishes I could tell the world who I am, but I'm too scared.

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

• 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 Youth Worker that sees hundreds of kids thrown out of home because they were honest with their families.

• I am the girl that struggles to get up in the morning because school is so cruel to me.

• I am the footballer scared to come out because I might lose my contract.

• I am the boy that always wanted a Barbie, but no one would let me have one.

• 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”.

We are all around you. We are the millions that want the hate to end.