I am the boy who never finished high school because I got called a fag everyday.

I am the girl who was kicked out of her tahanan because I confided in my mother I was a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because no one will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who held her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled night.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in a hospital because they would not let my partner of 27 years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who were the only loving family I had.

I am not one of the lucky ones, I killed myself weeks before graduating high school.

We are the couple who had the relater 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 management called on me.

I am the mother who isn't allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed and raised.

I am the woman who the court labeled an unfit mother because I now live with another 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 ipakita affection to other men.

I am the tahanan Economics teacher who always wanted to be the Gym teacher until someone told me that only mga tomboy do that.

I am the woman who died when the EMT'S stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was a transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think
I can be a 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 the door to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most: love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my mga kaibigan 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."

I'm the abused child for loving men and women.

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