G ([info]immoralfear) wrote,
2005-10-25 00:18:00
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the keyboard activist speaks

THIS IS NOT A LIST-THE-NEGATIVITY EXERCISE AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF COUNTER-EXAMPLES BUT THEY ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. I FIGURED A FAIR NUMBER OF PEOPLE READ MY JOURNAL AND IT MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT HOW MUCH HATE THERE IS OUT THERE. THIS IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT SCREWED-UP GENDER ROLES BUT BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.



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 man who died when the paramedics 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.


(Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.)

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  • 41 comments

[info]ecclesiastes23

October 24 2005, 16:55:08 UTC 6 years ago

hey, hv't been toking to u 4 some time. take care, alrite?
huggles

[info]immoralfear

October 24 2005, 19:29:05 UTC 6 years ago

I am buried six feet under work :(

Catch you late Nov. Take care!

[info]urbayne

October 24 2005, 17:36:06 UTC 6 years ago

brought tears to my eyes..

thanks for such an honest post...

[info]flynt

October 24 2005, 17:45:56 UTC 6 years ago

did u come up with all those lines? haunting i must say... but speaks volums when its played in the head.... will repost once im done with this reply. Be well and all the best!! :D

[info]immoralfear

October 24 2005, 19:21:05 UTC 6 years ago

My feminazi friends emailed it to me :-)

Take care of yourself!

[info]the_nightfairy

October 24 2005, 21:20:34 UTC 6 years ago

even though I'm heterosexual so I don't have such problems (even though sometimes I do look a bit like a lesbian) I must say: I will repost it. it's sad but it's true. and it's quite a brilliant text. hope some more "straight" people will get the message.

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 02:06:20 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks Gabby. We really need more people like you :-)

[info]the_nightfairy

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[info]neuy

October 25 2005, 00:43:58 UTC 6 years ago

how easy is it to cry out loud that simplicity is bliss, and simply sweep 'em all under the carpet of our aweful mind?

but how easy is it though, to stare at reality in the face and yell fuck you?

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 02:08:56 UTC 6 years ago

I honestly don't know.

If visibility ie. being "out" is political, then I guess the GLBT community in Asia has a long, long way to go.

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[info]sorrie_bluez

October 25 2005, 01:28:36 UTC 6 years ago

reposted..
just so disappointed in people who don't understand.

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 02:23:16 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks Jasper!

You posted my little note about the excerpt as well? :p

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Anonymous

October 25 2005, 02:36:23 UTC 6 years ago

you know, you should really post this on a local community or forum so it speaks to more people :/

but if you don't want to be outed it is understandable too. post-secrets or something?

A.

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 02:37:02 UTC 6 years ago

Yes ma'am.

[info]sayhitoforever

October 25 2005, 02:47:47 UTC 6 years ago

yoz, maybe it'd be good if you posted it on sg_ljers and clarified it as food for thought, so no one will take it as an unsubstantiated emo piece? : ) actually i've heard of some stories that sound similar to the situations in the passage. (am in lit mode, can't think of a better word than passage :P)

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 02:50:15 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks miss! I'll do that :)

[info]sayhitoforever

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[info]cg_

October 25 2005, 04:08:52 UTC 6 years ago

reposted..

*applauses for grace*

[info]bel_sukebe

October 25 2005, 04:34:40 UTC 6 years ago

outcasted, ostracized.. is it human nature to fear & resist againsts things they understand not of? we've got to show them how the REAL lurrvveeeee works. =) *tough but possible*

hiding love.. changed me. i can identify.

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 12:13:32 UTC 6 years ago

Me too :(

[info]legolas79

October 25 2005, 05:23:55 UTC 6 years ago

this is good. reposted it. applause. will recommend to tomorrow.sg

[info]stuckinashell_

October 25 2005, 05:38:57 UTC 6 years ago

hihi, i like the "little note" u wrote heh .. so gonna repost the whole thing :D

[info]immoralfear

October 25 2005, 12:16:36 UTC 6 years ago

I have made many amendments to that little note since I first posted this because I'm trying to pre-empt challenges. I still feel its inadequate :-/

Anonymous

October 25 2005, 12:28:48 UTC 6 years ago

would you have been so passionate about this if you are very straight? just wondering.

[info]mierin88

October 25 2005, 15:13:03 UTC 6 years ago

you know what? does it matter? if you were straight AND decent you'd question why is there this unfair treatement of the GLBT community.

not really wonder if people who post this have to be passionate about it just because they're not straight. so off point.

[info]immoralfear

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Anonymous

October 26 2005, 04:24:27 UTC 6 years ago

Love it

Hi, I'm the editor of Gay To The Bone. I'm GayGuy.

I found your link through Tomorrow.sg, and I must say that it is great work that you have done here. I really hope more bloggers can stand up to this calling for the halt of hate and homophobia, queer or not.

What's to be happy about is that I have seen some heterosexual bloggers supporting gay activism, which is pretty encouraging.

You can locate my blog at: http://gaytothebone.blogspot.com (http://gaytothebone.blogspot.com).

[info]legolas79

October 26 2005, 05:56:56 UTC 6 years ago

It is on Tomorrow.sg :)
http://tomorrow.sg/archives/2005/10/25/a_keyboard_activist_speaks.html

[info]xenoflare

October 26 2005, 07:37:59 UTC 6 years ago

Reposted! Let the rage burn red!

Anonymous

October 27 2005, 07:33:23 UTC 6 years ago

thank you!

Thank you so much for writing this! It really touched my heart, and I've reposted this as requested. I am bisexual myself, and I keep a "gay" blog, http://usedbrainsforsale.blogspot.com. But never have I been able to write something like this. I'll definitely add you to my blogroll. :)

pleinelune

[info]siberian_wolf

November 20 2005, 04:40:51 UTC 6 years ago

Your posting

Wow, I never knew that things where so hard for them. Those where very touching. I thought I had issue. Those are major issue in my book.
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