For Who I am

I've just been doing a search on Google for a song I heard on an advert for Unison. It turns out the song is called One and is by Filter. Anyway in my search I came across someones blog and it touched me. It's written by a young American, and i thought I'd share it here. It can be found at http://outminds.com/outspoken/outspoken_column.cfm?cid=482


For Who I Am

Written By Christopher

As I walk through those halls of high school I am made fun of...For who I am.

Queer, Gay, Faggot!!! Those are the words I am called, day in, and day out...For who I am.

Did you know a gay teen is twice as likely to commit suicide? Some of my friends have from those words you slur at us, when is it going to stop!?

You can't hold hands, you can't kiss each other, you can't be you...for who you are!
Don't come near me, you have AIDS, I might catch it...catch what, exactly?
You yell at us, you discriminate against us, and you beat us up, and you expect us to just accept this type of behavior, and you call us animals!?

You have killed innocent lives for being themselves.
We don't go around spray painting Hetero on your cars, we don't go around bashing your heads in with baseball bats.

Got AIDS Yet? AIDS cure gays! Gays Go To Hell...were seen at a funeral. As Mathew Shephard was put six feet under, his family, and friends heard those cruel words repeated over, and over again...and to make things worse, people stood outside the graveyard waving those signs!!!

When will you stop the hatred?
When will you stop repeating from the Bible, and go by your own opinion?
When will you stop the killings for innocent ones?
When will this country open its eyes, and start to accept?
How many more people have to die?"

...With liberty, and justice, and for all..." but when does that come into affect!