Hate of what is is plain wrong

(This was not written by me, it is a collection of e-mails and articles, the point is for this to be copied and pasted in order to make it known that hatred of difference is deeply wrong and an offence to life.  Share this with friends and family, bring the hate to awareness in the hopes that the hate can one day cease to exist.
We are all different and unique, nature loves difference.  Conformity and ignorance towards that difference is a vile thing.)

**>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.
-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 ther term 'hermaphrodite.'


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

**>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.

**> 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.}

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

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 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'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 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

{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'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

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

{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

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'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 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

{'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 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 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'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.}


{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 girl who gets made fun of for being bisexual, and I don't care because I love who I love.  I'm also the girl who will make out with a girl in front of her boyfriend.  Thank God I found a guy who doesn't care! I love you forever Matt! ~Beca5

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"

(I am the girl who contemplated suicide because her "friends" tell her "at least I'm not a lezbo like you"
I'm the girl who cries every night
The girl who can't wear a bathing suit out of fear of people seeing the scars on her legs) ~AmmyRox

I am the woman who was born with the birth defect of a male body, and forced to be a man for years.  Many suicide attempts, a deep self hatred and a despair has made me very jaded.
A target of narrow minded fools for years, I find it hard to trust people and tend to be very much alone more often than not. - ReinaHW


**>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).