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Looking out towards our past
many would see
much that shouldn’t be.
From the simplistic action
to centuries of suffering,
a...
As you stare into the dark grey walls of a small cubical you now reside in
Do you think about them?
Do you mourn them?
Do...
I locked you inside
And forbade you to leave
You were my demon
My friends and family don’t know about us
Our special bond...
Sexual preference
Is not just sexual preference
Is spiritual preference
Preference of the soul of a being
Sexual preference...
Scared
I'm scared to be myself
To show that who I love
Isn't "just a phase"
That it's okay to love someone
Someone of the...
Clogged hallways stretch into the distance
Simply would make him a walking target
He stopped holding hands, he stopped...
Love is Strong
Love is Powerful
Love is Free
Yet is it judged
Not being able to love whom we want for who we are
But at the...
As I wash my hands the cheerleaders change into their new uniforms
they don't know that I am washing my ring which takes...
who is society?
i was born society
i learn from society
society influences my life choices
i found society
i am society
In this little town it's not celebrated
but being different is the best thing you can be.
If you'd go to this school you'd...
if there was one thing you'd take with you when you go
what would it be?
your vision-- the most powerful sense of them all....
That is not how a lady sits
For she crosses her legs and you hang there with yours wide open
That is not how a lady laughs...
By law Its not ok to discriminate to people based on race.
By religion Its not ok to be mean to someone based on looks or...
Who am I?I am female.
I am an artist.
I am unique.
I love men.
Who is he?
He is male.
He is a mathmatican/
He is...
Watching watching watching
Longing to do the same
Waiting waiting waiting
How long before our turn?
Will we see it before...
No one knows the anxiety I face
Never understanding the difficulties of being in my place
I'm a man, in a womens shell...
Racism
Sexism
Heterosexism
Classism
Humans
Oppression
Privilege
Advantage
Suppression
Humans
White
Heterosexual
Male...
But i am not tragically a lesbian. I could care less about who judges me or how they feel about my lifestyle. It doesn't...
Not all things are as easy as they seem,
A country of love, home of the brave, land of the free,
But that's not entirely...
Forty-nine hearts ripped out of innocent souls, ninety-eight eyes closed for eternity,
one hundred ninety-six limbs...
I.
I have always thought love was a lesbian,but I never told my father. I swallowed guilt
each time he apologized for his...
AM I really this way?
Like a man in his own skin different from day to day.
I liked a man yesterday and a woman today.
AM I...
Iam not perfect and never will be
Iam beautiful and always shall be
Iam a sinner but who are you to judge me ?
Read my book...
What will you tell your queer child
when they walk by a grave sight and 90% of those people
died fighting for gay rights?...
Yes Dad! Yes!
I wanted to be called a faggot.
I want to be hit in the face
While I’m on the cold dirty gound.
I want to...
I'm with Biology
It's crazy how you can be with someone one night and express how you feel, just to see each other the...
Drip... Drip... Drip...
All I could see is the souls of those roses in his hands.
So much blood,
the agony of it all...
...
Why must we hide
Why must we apologize
Why must we be criticized
For who we are inside
I see no reason to lie
People are...
We attract,
We expand,
We love,
We hate,
We move,
We lose,
We believe in superiorty,
But when the same attract,
We fight,
We...
"There's something bad about her. There's something not quite."
I heard a father say to a little boy one night.
The little...
Being gay in the United States is a tough situation. We are ridiculed for having a great sense of fashion. Anti-gay people...
I stare at myself in the mirror,
And the image looking back at me is one that is disappointing,
I look in the mirror and...
Don't leave "I love you"
She repeated
Look at how bright the stars shine for you
Its beautiful isn't it
It must be nice...
Everyday I live in discrimination
as a LGBT first generation
I only hide, deep down inside
calming down my long frustration...
Bread
Today my friend told me
He likes wheat bread
and I wondered then
If he was okay in the head
He said it was natural...
Hello, my name is homosexual and I am Patrick...
PAUSE
Gay
Gay
Not Straight
That's the thing that replaces my name is Gay ...
I walk around,
Caught between two different worlds,
Don’t fit in either category,
My family and others only see me as...
A community scarred,
A community broken,
A community no longer whole.
Forty-nine no longer for this world,
Forty-nine...
Everyday I hear the media "generation's changing"
laws get passed, DOMA's trashed,equalizing marriage
But I still see the...
The world is such a simple place
We are all lucky enough to be on this rock
A rock floating in space
But everything is taken...
If I could change anything
I would change everything
I would give young girls and boys
Better role models to look up to...
If love makes the world go round,
then why do some hault its' spin?
How would you like it
if i stopped you from being with...
everyday the endless name calling. the being told who to be and that cant be who yu really are. the endless strugle of pain...
I used to look down a lot
My head full of melancholic thoughts
And myself so weighed down
I could not stand up.
In fact I...
As I inhale and exhale and I feel my heartbeat, I know that I am LIFE.
When I die, will it matter that I don't desire a...
When someone tells you to be this or that,
What makes it okay to listen?
You weren’t raised to be molded into that ideal...
Anger and frustration built up inside
As I smiled on the outside, and I lied and I lied.
No, I’m not upset about the...
I get scared now
“Which bathroom?” I think
As I bow
My head, ashamed of myself
I feel like I’m being gawked at
Hands in my...
Dark and closed how the closet it feels
Feeling like there is no where to go and one one to talk to
You feel alone, scared...
Who am I?
I'm a Dyke.
I don't label me
You label me.
My buzzed hair,
My masculine clothes.
Sometimes
I feel apart from.
An...
my brother told me last nightthat the only reason he won't come outto our parentsis because he couldn't bear to see my...
I must wash away the innocence,
Shoot the scared in the skull.
I've been built by bullied words.
I continue to be...
What's a name if no one ever calls you that?
What's a name if spoken in spite?
The constant correction, rejection, feels...
Sometimes I hate being Bi!
Having troubles in finding the right girl or guy,
I like all people because of their heart.
No,...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
I had a dream
A wonderful dream
A dream about being in school.
Teachers shine light on the students
The light makes us all...
Church,
We Attend it every Sunday
If we don't it is a sin
They say to love everybody
Even if we hate them from within
We...
In life we're taught to be ourselves. As toddlers we're used to to hearing, "Oh, honey, you can be whatever you want to be...
You and I
were forever together.
or we were supposed to be, at least.
My heart was connected
to yours by a red hot...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
You cannot fix the whole world
Not by action, nor by word
No matter the insult tossed in your face
You have...
Outstretched hands nimbly grasp
The mirage of a moment
Full of tales eager to be told.
To a youthful girl so clever
A...
why do people constantly care about things that dont involve them. why is my sexuality any of your business? why is...
Does it bring joy to your eyes when you see tears in mine?
How good does it feel to know that you make your on daughter ill...
When I was a senior in high school
I thought I was a boy because the
Only thing I saw in my future was
A man with a smile...
The cucoon of skin, reminding me daily of what I'm not.
Society tell me, spitting slurs into my face,
That I will never be a...
LGBTQ+ Rights
The time for people to stop.
Should be now.
Aren't we all equal?
Aren't we all human like you?
Can't we all...
In 7th grade, I knew I was gay
I didn't think it was normal
Not to be straight
So I cut up my skin
And took a lot of drugs
I...
Thanks for toleranting my "Phases"
my changes
my rotations
my edits
my-
well thanks for tolerating my "discoveries"
my...
I see people walking byAnd I wonder what it's likeDo they see what I seeWhen they look at you with meThen I think of what I'...
around the world, people
are happily getting
married
to pillows,
video game characters,
roller coasters,
the eiffel tower...
What is a world without transition and change?
All the gay lesbians transgender and bi people are not natural they say!
But...
Oh Bayard Oh Bayard
How tragic for you
For your name to be eschewed-ignored
Except by a few
Athlete-student-singer
You were...
Pacing around a room.
Its become my prison.
Trying to convince my myself not to back down tonight.
All around me whispers...
after Marina and the Diamonds
1) find your way to her front porch as June dissolves like salt water in soda. convince her...
OMG! What the hell?
Jimmy White is EDL.
Everytime he pots the black
He secretly hopes it won't come back.
Snooty Snooker...
I because iam GRATEFUL
to have you apart of my life.
I cry because iam HAPPY
to know we are together
I cry because...
If I met me now
What would I say?
Would I smile?
Would I blush?
Would I turn away?
I see my face,
See it next to mine.
Who...
Classic fairytales are like garbage
They reek of rotten apples
Pungently infiltrating the nostrils
Like soldiers with...
Where are you God?
They said you could fix me
Make me like guys instead of girls
Stop me from being sinful and...
We are who we are,
Not what society wants us to be.
We are expected to go far,
But as long if its with me.
Marriage isn't...
To walk into your lightAn enchanting embrace of love and acceptanceTo walk through not the gates of heavenBut the gates of...
You don't deserve an opinion she said,
As she rocked back on her chair and tilted her head.
You're wrong in what you think,...
I see rainbows burst through the sky
And have the sudden urge to run and cry
They all laugh and they say, "dont even try"...
The single most used phrase I have heard in my life is
"Its just a phase"
From every single direction, I have been...
Understand yall
We all fall short of the glory
True story we were on the verge of
He'll but god sent jesus in the clutch for...
Being gay isn't a choice
Because why would I choose to lose my voice?
Not my voice physically, but politically
Because I...
Hand in hand, down the street
A loving kiss on the cheek
Wrapped in a warm embrace
A soft caress of the face
Woman and man...
Tell me I'm ugly.
Tell me I'm sad.
Tell me I'm the worst you've ever had.
Tell me I'm crazy.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me you...
Straight girl walks in a crooked line
Straight to hell, ignoring the signs.
Nothing is straight under pressure,
Living under...
Folds of purple satin cloth,
Swallow me.
The lancet from out of darkness,
Taunts me.
Creaking stairs choke on themselves,...
When I look at you, I see what it means to be alive.
Your presence is all-consuming.
I look to you because I simply cannot...
If I could change this
I would change our thoughts
All the hate and the blame
the intent to diss
while evryone rots
I would...
You told me to listen
So I guess that's what I'll do
You think that i don't listen
I've listened for more than you.........
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry to all the families that lost someone who ment the world to them in the Orlando shooting,
I'm sorry...
I guess it's trueThat when it comes to youI'm never smart in my plansMy actions aren't ever wiser, but my heart always...
"we'll pray for youyou're just confused.it's just a phase.everyone goes through this."
goes through what, exactly?
loving...
I will be whoever the fuck I want.
Let me repeat that.
I, Faith Rider, will be, whoever, whatever, the fuck I want.
Everyone...
All night, under the bathroom nightlight – I sit with paper, pencil, and pretending I’m not afraid – living as a writer, I...
17 years old constantly confused about what's right and what's wrong?
Unsure on what to do since she's always been preached...
When love gets a little easier
Maybe I'll be able to say hello and not have my eyes rain
Maybe the tulips will finally bloom...
History is a shaped, definite, repetitive concept,
The blood spilt through time seems to come from the same culprit.
No...
Like the moon, i show what others want-my bright side; how smart and funny and sweet i can be .
I can't help but think is...
If I tell people I am gay, my father might punch me in the face.My mother might threaten to kick me out of the house.If I...
Lo mismo
Un angel maldicho
una prostituta debil
un rey mudo
una silla en medio del bosque
un coche sin manejador
Con usos...
Cloaked they all walk idly by
Not seeing what they do not need
Sipping their coffee's with a sigh
Leaving those on the side...
filling out papers
two options in front of me
male
female
i am forced to mark the latter
because even two years later
the...
Where am I?
The question we always ask. Trapped in a box wearing just a gas mask.
Let me out. I can barely breathe.
I want...
Everytime I see the doctor,
I pretend to be who they want me to,
Or who they think I am.
For I know if I tell them,
They'd...
Yes Dad! Yes!
I wanted to be called a faggot.
I want to be hit in the face
While I’m on the cold dirty gound.
I want to...
I never thought I would see the day,
Where I couldn't face my parents
And tell them how I felt.
Tell them what it is like,...
The voice in my head is so pleasantly bi polar.
He'll come up with ideas that'll blind me ,intrigued.
But changes oh so...
A girl is now a boy, once trapped in their own body. A boy's mind trapped in a girls body. Free at last, he thought, but...
I'm an asexual
Which in our world is hard to tell people
We live in a world where sex is everywhere
People will tell you...
I remember being a little boy and playing with dolls. The girls I played with welcomed me with open arms, even asking me to...
Floating up
Up
Up
Up
into a sanctuary where it feels.....almost good...
was suffering along forever believing there was...
these two situations are not ideal in combination:
being thirteen,
and realizing that gay is a synonym for your name.
but...
Life is so troublesome for those have constrained plan and boundless prerequisites. Nobody can use existence without having...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
The first thing she to me was "dont scream".The last thing she said to me was "its going to be ok, but you better not tell...
“Where the Moon Sleeps”
I met the moon on the hill where he sleeps.I asked him where he was coming from.He laughed, and said...
I am the guy that never showed sufferings.
I am the guy who cried, the guy who hide of himself in the shadows of lust....
Why is love so ignorant
Can I love myself before
i love somebody
Do I have to love a man in order
to fit in with this...
Cobblestone brusied skin with a touch of ivory
And you knew how to get to me
See you reminded me of my mother
Yes oh how my...
Dedicated to someone special .
Am struggling while looking back at your face
Why it does not hold that much grace !...
Do you know what it's like,
To like boys and girls in a small, Southern
Predominantly Christian town?
To hear your peers...
Accept your Peluchito - Yanci Aguilar
You make this a huge deal, why?
“You have no good use of being a female, there’s no...
Hey, you’re fat, you’re skinny, you’re black, you’re gay
too tall, too short, too white, too tan; more than anything they’ll...
I'm holding this girlHolding her in my arms tonightI refuse to fall asleepAnd give this moment over to my dreams
I notice...
He is brown hair and brown eyed.
He is tall and thin.
He does not have a single blemish on his face.
He has no warts.
He...
Have you ever wander in a way, noone esle wanders
your head in thin air, your calling out but noone seem's to hear....
your...
Voices approached him dailyCausing him cries and screamsStalking him during daylight Haunting him in his dreamsBut he was a...
I'm lost in the sense of who I am
and who I'm supposed to be.
My brain and heart work just fine
but they have the hardest...
That moment you look in the mirror-
Fresh out of a shower, soul still dirty,
Seeing a little bit cleaner,
As you wipe away...
Sad me.
Sad you.
I wish we were connected more,
Like glue.
But although you're scared at the thought.
You need to be honest...
I have begun my own quiet war, my silent scream of being lost in this body that is not my body
I am one who leaves the...
Everyone is equal, right?
Whether someone is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or even questioning everyone should have...
She has this fear.
Her legs start to shake.
Thoughts of death remind her the world is a precious place.
She hates the...
For those who don't know what it looks like:
DOMA
Prop 8
The Westboro Baptist Church
Gay Bashing (I would know it's bad,...
So I heard you’re claustrophobic
That you turned yourself into Peter Pan’s worst nightmare
sentient shadow no one can find...
I am not afraid of what they will think.
I am not afarid of what they will do to me.
I will be who i am and when it is my...
Can you tell me why the sky is blue?
Can you tell me what is true?
You say "feelings are not facts."
Is it because she's a...
Let me put something into perspective for you
I'll try to say it a few different ways
First, I'll define it for you
I'll...
Love is love
“Gender doesn’t define love.”
Why is it people judge what they don’t understand?
Homo, faggot, dyke, queer!
Out...
Lost in altercation;
I am forced to circumspect
These moves
For with standing no
Fear, defeat is at
Arms length from me
...
Love. What is it now in 2013?
When a male and a female love eachother its okay to be a human being.
But the moment two men...
My name is Emily Rose Marrazzo
I am 18 Years old
And as far as any of you are concerned, I am a natural blonde.
I’m a...
They said go,
But I always said 'No'.
'Cause I-L-Y, til the day I die,
You make me smile when
I want to cry.
You words of...
Alex undresses in the bathroom
Water running in the shower
He glances up;
In that mirror of truth
Hanging;
On the bathroom...
Across the canvas
A young man leans against the wall
On the other side
Another stands confident and tall
With different...
Welcome to our society where people will judge you on the smallest things and not care. Welcome to our society where gay...
What made me decide
to play for the other team?
The question that's constantly imposed
by my own mind,
who's answer seems to...
They remember those days
Days full of pain
As their mothers wiped their tears away
They don't understand how anyone could be...
Students stare when I pass from class to class,
Teachers even give me double takes,
And glare when they realize what they...
I want my little sister to be free of worries.
I want my little brother to hope without fear,
to speak with care,
and to...
Because of Love
I was born into this world.
Because I was born into this world
I am a being of Love.
All around me I was...
they all stare at me, looking me up and down, side to side
they snicker and gossip amongst themselves
they do not know me,...
Your body is my safe haven.
I'm craving the sweetness of your skin on my lips craving
the taste of love and living.
I talk...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
To the USA and my mother.
Stamp it on my wrist,
better yet crack open my chest and inscribe it
on my heart
so that every...
Why my city, Why Oralndo
So much hate, Not much love.
50 LGBT people gone because of hate,
Pray for my city, Just trying to...
Standing naked in the mirror only helps me push the knives in deeper ,
so I can hit the major organs of my sanity.
This...
My tears are like oranges. If oranges wer the same shape and color as tears. Which ther not. Tears ent got colour. Now yur...
Just Words
Growing older and older,
I hated words.
And even as they got louder,
nothing could hurt worse.
I refused to...
Love. Such a simple but complex word that is used on a daily basis. Love that was said should never mix races. Love that to...
—
again
i see hate, violent suggestion
that we are less
less pure, less whole
—
and we aren't whole
a gaping wound in a...
Have you ever felt trapped in your own skin?
Braindead for weeks, Woke up one a saturday thinking its monday? Going to...
Down the halls its hard enough
“Fag” “Gay” “Queer, that’s never enough
Into the locker my face gets stuck
A teacher walks by...
Why is it that so much time is devoted to one’s feelings?Love and dreams and wimpy crap like that are only a fantasy…But it...
Where's our pride parade?
You don't see us flaunting our sexuality.
Where's our pride parade?
We want support and equality...
We are who we want to be,
And we will be who we are.
A moment of clarity,
As I find comfort in these thoughts:
Of being...
The emphasis placed on between the legs
Is what is reflected in the world today
We have become so consumed with a person's...
My history is written between the lines.You see, I come from a long line of keep your head down, do not tell them what you...
There is an old saying:
Love comes in many forms.
But why is being gay
Excluded in that love?
“It is a sin!” they shriek....
Dear mom and dad,
You ruined me
You stripped me of my identity and destroyed everything I believed in
I tried to be the...
Somedays I look down at this body,
I do not believe that it is mine,
My eyes are mine,
but every thing else seems as though...
My Page
My page lies motionless as you hover above
About to descend, you grip your pen with strong desire
Careful not to...
Imagine a world where things were reversed.
Girls could walk down the hallways, hands intertwined
Boys could stroll in the...
He sits in his room and reflects on his lifeThinking to himself and whats causing him strife"Whats wrong with me?"He goes to...
I look, I see, I tolerate thee.
For I cannot agree with your thinking,
I can agree that we're all human beings.
Nothing can...
I've been drinking again - Maybe to quell the thoughts of you but maybeMore importantly toQuiet the pain that hangsLovingly...
Would this lesson add food to the table when money is low ?
Would this lesson show me a route to my future, and the right...
Why is it that
I dream under this black sky again
Why do i feel as though i cannot see
My heart aches
But i still dont know...
The sun
Life began like a sun shimming in the daylight
Until the truth blinded the boy
He is different
This he did not know...
today i am eight andwhen i asked to be a cowboy,
an honest-to-god lone ranger,my mom looked really funnyand hushed me with...
My heart made me loose it all.
They said they loved me,
But it was all a lie.
They told me to follow my heart,
But it led me...
I wrote this thinking about both of you, and how special you are, and how youve always been there for me even when I dont...
Woman with woman locked by hand
Spinning and sharing a stare
Dazed like by drugs
Confused with a new kind of love
The world...
Bringing among us the most unpredictable sensations,
Love is ugly, foul
Do not trust a heart’s strange vibrations,
Run,...
Homophobia- Bryant Valenzuela
I can’t stand the way people have decisions
I can’t stand the way people act
This is not...
Institutional power struggles,
the rights of people infringed upon.
Light fades to darkness,
as discrimination engulfs this...
So basically this is me writing and I am not positive on what to say.
Suppose I have a girlfriend,
Suppose she wasn’t a fake...
Dark and closed how the closet it feels
Feeling like there is no where to go and one one to talk to
You feel alone, scared...
Hiding in fear from the hate of pure dissatisfaction.
For those who look to see me as a thing. A thing of godless...
Arkansas
State so beautiful
Natural as can be
Friendly people everywhere
We do not miss a beat
But disappointment looms
In...
Hello
You say I can't love
Who I like
Well last time
I checked I was
Over eighteen
So spare me
Your batshit
Fuckery
...
Since we’re in Forever,
Our bodies had just touched.
When childhood and memories
Became so close, untouched.
The...
Why do you do that?
Make that ungrateful ingrate treat you like that?
I know you see the difference betwen the happiness you...