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Homophobia

Journal Entry: Sat Sep 8, 2007, 12:50 PM
This really spoke to me in a deep personal level. Makes me see how things aren't that bad for me.

Homophobia
Homophobia and You: They're people too! Stop the hate and spread the love!


*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 did not 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 the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

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  • Mood: Sadness
  • Listening to: Nothing...

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 21 closing on 22..I'm sooo ooold..
  • Current Residence: Finland
  • Interests: manga, anime, books, art, writing, fanfiction, fan art, yaoi, music
  • Favourite movie: Fotr, Potc, Amelie...
  • Favourite band or musician: Nightwish
  • Favourite genre of music: metal, movie soundtracks, classic, medieval dancemusic...
  • Favourite poet or writer: J.K.Rowling or J.R.R. Tolkien, can't decide
  • Favourite style of art: manga, pseudo-realistic, art nouveau
  • Favourite game: Adventure Quest
  • Personal Quote: "Oho, oho, onpahan vihreitä peikkoja".
  • Tools of the Trade: pen, ink, coloured pencils

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~stompe:iconstompe: Mar 9, 2008, 11:49:59 AM
Thanks for the fav!
~Yami-Kaira:iconYami-Kaira: Feb 14, 2008, 2:45:18 PM Mood: Joy
Saraste!! *0*

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~SkeIator:iconSkeIator: Dec 14, 2007, 1:06:26 AM
Thank you soo much for the :+fav: on my Snow Brushes

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~pirateTomkat:iconpirateTomkat: Aug 26, 2007, 12:22:42 PM
thanks for the fave! ^^

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~aihaibara18:iconaihaibara18: Aug 22, 2007, 3:24:28 AM
Thanks for the fav!!! :hug:

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~creepynurse:iconcreepynurse: Aug 21, 2007, 11:36:54 AM
Oih, tervehdys maanmies ^^
~autumn-burden:iconautumn-burden: Apr 2, 2007, 3:35:08 PM
thanks for the fav!! :hug:

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~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Feb 4, 2007, 6:41:50 AM
You're welcome! :)

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=Cribby:iconCribby: Jan 29, 2007, 9:04:14 AM
Thanks for adding Only mine to your favs :)
*Cribby

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~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 12, 2006, 3:24:35 PM
Yes, I know you're 19 now... And no, there wasn't really any age restriction to the group.

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~PickleWeasel:iconPickleWeasel: Dec 12, 2006, 1:35:09 PM
Gocher.

Me too... but i've been busy. I've neglected all my forums but this and Y! Gallery... even those are full of pictures and comments to look at.

Um... I'm 19 now, and was the FTLY group really 18 and up? I don't remember, but I've was never really good at not looking at pages made for 18+. I don't lie when signing up for websites (like silly people who think they won't get caught on Y!Gallery, one of my friends, age 14, signed up and a few days later got a 4 year ban)

~Sara
~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 10, 2006, 12:17:34 PM
My own charas never seem to do what I want them to. And I get bored with some storylines too quickly and start skipping things..
originals are nicer in their way. I seem to always get ideas and then there's a story but no charas..

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.
~DanaeShinRa:iconDanaeShinRa: Dec 10, 2006, 11:42:12 AM
It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I struggle to start a concept for a character. I've got several good characters, but by the time I've got my characters, I've got no idea what to write about. Fanfics are easier, but there's more satisfaction in writing original works.

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~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 10, 2006, 5:39:36 AM
Hmm.. You're lazy, then...? Yes, fanfics are easier, less work involved..

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.
~DanaeShinRa:iconDanaeShinRa: Dec 9, 2006, 8:11:54 PM
o_O...LOL...the space is shrinking. THis is where we start to send notes to one another XD Or IM one another.

FF.net sucks. o_O I'm active in writing, but how active I am keeps slipping away, then coming back....I prefer to write Fanfiction because I don't have to make my own characters up o.o;;

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Mr. Julson: No, you won't DIE...you'll just drown.

(Oh yes, he said that...)
~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 9, 2006, 7:56:12 PM
Oo, the space is shrinking, aahh..

I'm not even in FF.net. My original work, well... I'm a bit lazy with it. But I've gotten more active in writing that too lately.

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.
~DanaeShinRa:iconDanaeShinRa: Dec 9, 2006, 7:38:17 PM
I write fanfiction and post it here, because FF.net sucks. I'm terrible at original work....

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Mr. Julson: No, you won't DIE...you'll just drown.

(Oh yes, he said that...)
~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 9, 2006, 7:01:23 PM
Maybe it's because with fanart the fans get to decide how the story that has the characters that they've grown to love develops. And there is all that background there already. With original s you start up from scratch, maybe people are lazy? Is there fanfiction here?? I just post everything I've written elsewhere. And yes, I do fanfics on the expence of my original writing, sadly..

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.
~DanaeShinRa:iconDanaeShinRa: Dec 9, 2006, 6:08:24 PM
Fanfiction doesn't seem popular here, either, and THAT bothers me because I love to write fanfiction. o_O I don't get why people don't like original characters. They're much more fun than fanart.

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Mr. Julson: No, you won't DIE...you'll just drown.

(Oh yes, he said that...)
~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 9, 2006, 5:57:00 PM
Oddly, it seems to be that way too in other places I'm in... And thenI feel that my original characters get thrown in the background. But I must admit that I do enjoy writing fanfics...

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.
~DanaeShinRa:iconDanaeShinRa: Dec 9, 2006, 5:42:03 PM
It's really fanart here that's popular, which bothers me a little bit.

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Mr. Julson: No, you won't DIE...you'll just drown.

(Oh yes, he said that...)
~jeleyn:iconjeleyn: Dec 9, 2006, 5:31:30 PM
Hmm... Not getting any comments happened to me at Elfwood too, I suspect that there's some inner circle that you have to be a part of there to get noticed.. Or maybe not, I've been inactive there for ages now.. And my art there is both old and crappy.. And meybe here it also depends a little on how often you update...

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Every day that I spend alone, I die just a bit more.