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my age is irrelevant.
I am a published poet, who has now been published
in several collaborative poetry books.












HOMOPHIBIA IS WRONG

I am the girl who came out to the entire school in her senior speech and got a standing ovation for her courage.

We are the couple who planned and studied and got a damn good lawyer and BEAT the state that wanted to take our child away.

We are the ones who took martial arts classes and carry pepper spray and are just too dangerous to gaybash.

I am the mother who told her lesbian daughter to invite her girlfriend over for dinner.

I am the mother who punished her son for calling you a fag.

I am making a difference. Hate will NOT win.

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I SALUTE MENTANOIA'S JESSE.
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I am the girl who got kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the sister who is held by her brother every tear filled night

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

I am the woman 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 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 home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

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

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














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