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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.

I am in complete and utter support of gay marriage.

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

Copy this to your profile if you believe in legalizing gay marriage!

Favorite Quotes:
"If nobody is perfect, and I am nobody, then I am perfect! " - a friend
"The Lower City is mine, its people are mine. If I find them that's doing all this kidnapping and murdering, they'd best pray for mercy. Because once I get my teeth in 'em, I will NEVER let them go." - Rebakah (Beka) Cooper from Beka Cooper: Terrier
"The men shared one of those chest-beating manly looks that always excluded women. Ugh. Big trouble. Protect the women and children. Blood, guts, and glory. Ugh." - Thorn St. Croix from Host
"I cursed. Audric laughed. And then he made me dance. For an hour he worked on foot placement, which, oddly enough, was a lot like the foot placement in fighting stances. He made me do hip slides and circles and a rhombus circle, which was a highly sexual move with a little belly cant and thrust, as if I was throwing a coin out of my belly button. He made me do camel hips, which was a joke, skinny as I am. He made me watch in mirrors as I did chest slides, and I looked like a monkey hit by a Tazer. The chest thrusts I tried were pitiful, as I had no boobs, and my chest circles were even worse. I couldn't do snake arms worth spit." - Thorn St. Croix from Host
"I wouldn't just beat him up. I'd kick him so hard he'd be singing soprano for a year." - Thorn St. Croix from Host
"One by one they all looked up and came to something like attention. It was almost funny. I was less than five feet tall and maybe ninety pounds dripping wet. What in heck was I supposed to say to them, this bunch of brawny, battle-hardened men, armed to the teeth and waiting on me to lead them. This was stupid. Stupid! I opened my mouth and words fell out. 'Let's kick some butt.'" - Thorn St. Croix from Host
"You think your plan is marching along like a band in the field, all the sections moving to their appointed places at the appropriate times. Then somebody falls on his a** and the next thing you know there's a clarinet player stuck in the sousaphone." - Jaz Parks from Biting the Bullet
"A duet is when two people do it. *twiddling fingers as if playing instrument*" - Anonymous Fourth Grader
"Corky connected to the infusion tank and inflated his suit, looking amused. 'I feel like I'm wearing a giant condom.' Norah gave a disgusted groan. 'Like you'd know, virgin boy.'" - Deception Point
"Corky acquiesced, but only slightly. 'Fine, but the prehistoric ocean never had giant bugs.' 'Sure, it did. And it still does, in fact. People eat them everyday. They're a delicacy in most countries.' 'Mike, who the hell eats giant sea bugs!' 'Anyone who eats lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.' Corky stared. 'Crustaceans are essentially giant sea bugs,' Tolland explained. 'They're a suborder of the phylum Arthropoda-lice, crabs, spiders, insects, grasshoppers, scorpions, lobsters-they're all related. They're all species with jointed appendages and external skeletons.' Corky suddenly looked ill. 'From a classification standpoint, they look a lot like bugs,' Tolland explained. 'Horseshoe crabs resemble giant trilobites. And the claws of a lobster resembler those of a large scorpion.' Corky turned green. 'Okay, I've eaten my last lobster roll.' - Deception Point
"'Did you mount her?' the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. 'I beg your pardon?' 'She is lovely, no?' the agent motioned through the windshield toward the Eiffel Tower. 'Have you mounted her?' Langdon rolled his eyes. 'No, I haven't climbed the tower.' 'She is the symbol of France. I think she is perfect.' Langdon nodded absently. Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Naopleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus." - The Da Vinci Code
"Langdon had to smile as the threesome moved deeper into the church. 'Leigh,' he whispered, 'you lie entirely too well.' Teabing's eyes twinkled. 'Oxford Theatre Club. They still talk of my Julius Caesar. I'm certain nobody has ever performed the first scene of Act Three with more dedication.' Langdon glanced over. 'I thought Caesar was dead in that scene.' Teabing smirked. 'Yes, but my toga tore open when I fell, and I had to lie on stage for half an hour with my todger hanging out. Even so, I never moved a muscle. I was brilliant, I tell you.' Langdom cringed. Sorry I missed it." - The Da Vinci Code
"The Great Castration, Langdon thought. It was one of the most horrific tragedies in Renaissance art. In 1857, Pope Pius IX decided that the accurate representation of the male form might incite lust inside the Vatican. So he got a chisel and mallet and hacked off the genitalia of every single male statue inside Vatican City. He defaced works by Michelangelo, Bramante, and Bernini. Plaster fig leaves were used to patch the damage. Hundreds of sculptures had been emasculated. Langdon had often wondered if there was a huge crate of stone penises someplace." - Angels & Demons
"'Robin Hood,' she said. 'Another great warrior who preferred the company of his own gender.' 'What are you implying?' asked Cape. 'Is this another lesbian conspiracy theory?' 'I'm just saying that he spent an awful lot of time with those Merry Men.' 'What about Maid Marion?' 'A cross-dresser,' said Sally definitively. 'Very common in those days.' Cape raised his eyebrows skeptically. 'And what about the tights?' demanded Sally." - Beating the Babushka
"Being in love is not looking at each other, but looking together at the same direction" - Redsyris
"There are some things that no man wanted to hear under any circumstance. One, that he'd lost his testicles in battle. Two, that he'd lost his testicles to a fluke injury. Three, that he'd caught some disease that interfered with his ability to perform as a man. And most of all four, that the father of the woman, who was one of the most powerful men in all of Christendom, was at the gate of the home where he'd just violated the man's daughter without the sanctity of marriage. Four was guaranteed to cost him not just his testicles, but the rest of his organs as the king ordered them scraped from inside him while he was still alive enough to feel it. I am dead. Disemboweled. Hanged. And, most unfortunately, not in that order." - Lochlan MacAllister from The Warrior
"He'd always wondered what made a male praying mantis court death by mating with the deadly female, whether they didn't have functional brains so the poor saps had no idea they were literally ******** themselves to death or if something had short-circuited in their evolution. After all, a process that ended in death for the male couldn't be good for the species. At the same time, he'd sort of admired the little bastards; it took a dedicated male to keep on humping while his head was being torn off and eaten." - Cam Justice from Up Close and Dangerous
"Bailey lifted her eyebrows at him. 'Is that tone of voice supposed to make me click my heels and salute?' 'It worked on the men under my command.' 'Of which I'm not one,' she pointed out. 'Thank God. If you were, there are regulations against some plans I have involving you.'" - Up Close and Dangerous

Interesting Tidbits:
"[Da Vinci], despite the visionary's genius, was a flamboyant homosexual and worshipper of Nature's divine order." - The Da Vinci Code
"When some joker raised two fingers behind a friend's head in the V-symbol of horns, few of the pranksters realized their mocking gesture was in fact advertising their victim's robust sperm count." - The Da Vinci Code
"[The thumbs-up sign] was the ancient phallic symbol for masculine virility." - Angels & Demons
"Turns out that bald men are bald because of a megadose of testosterone." - Count Lilliana Arrabella Guinevere du Marchette (Lil) from Dead and Dateless
"Wind couldn't get through leather; that's why motorcyclists wore leather clothing." - Bailey Wingate from Up Close and Dangerous