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I've been drinking again - Maybe to quell the thoughts of you but maybeMore importantly toQuiet the pain that hangsLovingly...
everyday the endless name calling. the being told who to be and that cant be who yu really are. the endless strugle of pain...
Across the canvas
A young man leans against the wall
On the other side
Another stands confident and tall
With different...
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...
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...
Classic fairytales are like garbage
They reek of rotten apples
Pungently infiltrating the nostrils
Like soldiers with...
Dear mom and dad,
You ruined me
You stripped me of my identity and destroyed everything I believed in
I tried to be the...
—
again
i see hate, violent suggestion
that we are less
less pure, less whole
—
and we aren't whole
a gaping wound in a...
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...
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...
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...
Have you ever felt trapped in your own skin?
Braindead for weeks, Woke up one a saturday thinking its monday? Going 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...
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...
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...
Lost in altercation;
I am forced to circumspect
These moves
For with standing no
Fear, defeat is at
Arms length from me
...
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...
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...
What will you tell your queer child
when they walk by a grave sight and 90% of those people
died fighting for gay rights?...
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...
Woman with woman locked by hand
Spinning and sharing a stare
Dazed like by drugs
Confused with a new kind of love
The world...
Since we’re in Forever,
Our bodies had just touched.
When childhood and memories
Became so close, untouched.
The...
Standing naked in the mirror only helps me push the knives in deeper ,
so I can hit the major organs of my sanity.
This...
Life is so troublesome for those have constrained plan and boundless prerequisites. Nobody can use existence without having...
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...
Why do you do that?
Make that ungrateful ingrate treat you like that?
I know you see the difference betwen the happiness you...
Bringing among us the most unpredictable sensations,
Love is ugly, foul
Do not trust a heart’s strange vibrations,
Run,...
Students stare when I pass from class to class,
Teachers even give me double takes,
And glare when they realize what they...
Accept your Peluchito - Yanci Aguilar
You make this a huge deal, why?
“You have no good use of being a female, there’s no...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
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...
Do you know what it's like,
To like boys and girls in a small, Southern
Predominantly Christian town?
To hear your peers...
What's a name if no one ever calls you that?
What's a name if spoken in spite?
The constant correction, rejection, feels...
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...
Just Words
Growing older and older,
I hated words.
And even as they got louder,
nothing could hurt worse.
I refused to...
Hello, my name is homosexual and I am Patrick...
PAUSE
Gay
Gay
Not Straight
That's the thing that replaces my name is Gay ...
why do people constantly care about things that dont involve them. why is my sexuality any of your business? why is...
Voices approached him dailyCausing him cries and screamsStalking him during daylight Haunting him in his dreamsBut he was a...
Clogged hallways stretch into the distance
Simply would make him a walking target
He stopped holding hands, he stopped...
As I wash my hands the cheerleaders change into their new uniforms
they don't know that I am washing my ring which takes...
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...
Sometimes I hate being Bi!
Having troubles in finding the right girl or guy,
I like all people because of their heart.
No,...
We attract,
We expand,
We love,
We hate,
We move,
We lose,
We believe in superiorty,
But when the same attract,
We fight,
We...
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...
Arkansas
State so beautiful
Natural as can be
Friendly people everywhere
We do not miss a beat
But disappointment looms
In...
17 years old constantly confused about what's right and what's wrong?
Unsure on what to do since she's always been preached...
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...
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...
No one knows the anxiety I face
Never understanding the difficulties of being in my place
I'm a man, in a womens shell...
My Page
My page lies motionless as you hover above
About to descend, you grip your pen with strong desire
Careful not to...
All night, under the bathroom nightlight – I sit with paper, pencil, and pretending I’m not afraid – living as a writer, I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
they all stare at me, looking me up and down, side to side
they snicker and gossip amongst themselves
they do not know me,...
I must wash away the innocence,
Shoot the scared in the skull.
I've been built by bullied words.
I continue to be...
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...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
My tears are like oranges. If oranges wer the same shape and color as tears. Which ther not. Tears ent got colour. Now yur...
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...
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...
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...
OMG! What the hell?
Jimmy White is EDL.
Everytime he pots the black
He secretly hopes it won't come back.
Snooty Snooker...
History is a shaped, definite, repetitive concept,
The blood spilt through time seems to come from the same culprit.
No...
Alex undresses in the bathroom
Water running in the shower
He glances up;
In that mirror of truth
Hanging;
On the bathroom...
around the world, people
are happily getting
married
to pillows,
video game characters,
roller coasters,
the eiffel tower...
She has this fear.
Her legs start to shake.
Thoughts of death remind her the world is a precious place.
She hates the...
Dedicated to someone special .
Am struggling while looking back at your face
Why it does not hold that much grace !...
Pacing around a room.
Its become my prison.
Trying to convince my myself not to back down tonight.
All around me whispers...
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....
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...
Drip... Drip... Drip...
All I could see is the souls of those roses in his hands.
So much blood,
the agony of it all...
...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks for toleranting my "Phases"
my changes
my rotations
my edits
my-
well thanks for tolerating my "discoveries"
my...
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,...
You and I
were forever together.
or we were supposed to be, at least.
My heart was connected
to yours by a red hot...
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...
Institutional power struggles,
the rights of people infringed upon.
Light fades to darkness,
as discrimination engulfs this...
That moment you look in the mirror-
Fresh out of a shower, soul still dirty,
Seeing a little bit cleaner,
As you wipe away...
The emphasis placed on between the legs
Is what is reflected in the world today
We have become so consumed with a person's...
I walk around,
Caught between two different worlds,
Don’t fit in either category,
My family and others only see me as...
Hiding in fear from the hate of pure dissatisfaction.
For those who look to see me as a thing. A thing of godless...
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...
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...
I because iam GRATEFUL
to have you apart of my life.
I cry because iam HAPPY
to know we are together
I cry because...
Outstretched hands nimbly grasp
The mirage of a moment
Full of tales eager to be told.
To a youthful girl so clever
A...
So I heard you’re claustrophobic
That you turned yourself into Peter Pan’s worst nightmare
sentient shadow no one can find...
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...
Where are you God?
They said you could fix me
Make me like guys instead of girls
Stop me from being sinful and...
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...
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"...
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...
I'm holding this girlHolding her in my arms tonightI refuse to fall asleepAnd give this moment over to my dreams
I notice...
I remember being a little boy and playing with dolls. The girls I played with welcomed me with open arms, even asking me to...
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...
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...
"There's something bad about her. There's something not quite."
I heard a father say to a little boy one night.
The little...
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....
Where's our pride parade?
You don't see us flaunting our sexuality.
Where's our pride parade?
We want support and equality...
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...
He sits in his room and reflects on his lifeThinking to himself and whats causing him strife"Whats wrong with me?"He goes to...
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...
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...
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.........
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...
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...
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...
Forty-nine hearts ripped out of innocent souls, ninety-eight eyes closed for eternity,
one hundred ninety-six limbs...
who is society?
i was born society
i learn from society
society influences my life choices
i found society
i am society
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...
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...
Oh Bayard Oh Bayard
How tragic for you
For your name to be eschewed-ignored
Except by a few
Athlete-student-singer
You were...
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,...
Straight girl walks in a crooked line
Straight to hell, ignoring the signs.
Nothing is straight under pressure,
Living under...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Watching watching watching
Longing to do the same
Waiting waiting waiting
How long before our turn?
Will we see it before...
“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...
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...
filling out papers
two options in front of me
male
female
i am forced to mark the latter
because even two years later
the...
Down the halls its hard enough
“Fag” “Gay” “Queer, that’s never enough
Into the locker my face gets stuck
A teacher walks by...
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...
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...
Lo mismo
Un angel maldicho
una prostituta debil
un rey mudo
una silla en medio del bosque
un coche sin manejador
Con usos...
I will be whoever the fuck I want.
Let me repeat that.
I, Faith Rider, will be, whoever, whatever, the fuck I want.
Everyone...
Homophobia- Bryant Valenzuela
I can’t stand the way people have decisions
I can’t stand the way people act
This is not...
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...
Love is love
“Gender doesn’t define love.”
Why is it people judge what they don’t understand?
Homo, faggot, dyke, queer!
Out...
"we'll pray for youyou're just confused.it's just a phase.everyone goes through this."
goes through what, exactly?
loving...
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...
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...
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...
after Marina and the Diamonds
1) find your way to her front porch as June dissolves like salt water in soda. convince her...
Everyone is equal, right?
Whether someone is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or even questioning everyone should have...
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...
Things were tight, always have been.
I was raised by a young black man.
Single father, mother no where to be found.
No...
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 wrote this thinking about both of you, and how special you are, and how youve always been there for me even when I dont...
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...
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...
What is a world without transition and change?
All the gay lesbians transgender and bi people are not natural they say!
But...
Being gay isn't a choice
Because why would I choose to lose my voice?
Not my voice physically, but politically
Because I...
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...
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...
my brother told me last nightthat the only reason he won't come outto our parentsis because he couldn't bear to see my...
Sexual preference
Is not just sexual preference
Is spiritual preference
Preference of the soul of a being
Sexual preference...
these two situations are not ideal in combination:
being thirteen,
and realizing that gay is a synonym for your name.
but...
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...
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...
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...
Being gay in the United States is a tough situation. We are ridiculed for having a great sense of fashion. Anti-gay people...
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...
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....
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'...
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...
If I could change anything
I would change everything
I would give young girls and boys
Better role models to look up to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Everyday I hear the media "generation's changing"
laws get passed, DOMA's trashed,equalizing marriage
But I still see the...
Everyday I live in discrimination
as a LGBT first generation
I only hide, deep down inside
calming down my long frustration...
The single most used phrase I have heard in my life is
"Its just a phase"
From every single direction, I have been...
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...
Welcome to our society where people will judge you on the smallest things and not care. Welcome to our society where gay...
Folds of purple satin cloth,
Swallow me.
The lancet from out of darkness,
Taunts me.
Creaking stairs choke on themselves,...
To walk into your lightAn enchanting embrace of love and acceptanceTo walk through not the gates of heavenBut the gates of...
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...
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...
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...
Looking out towards our past
many would see
much that shouldn’t be.
From the simplistic action
to centuries of suffering,
a...
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...
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...
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...
I.
I have always thought love was a lesbian,but I never told my father. I swallowed guilt
each time he apologized for his...
They remember those days
Days full of pain
As their mothers wiped their tears away
They don't understand how anyone could be...
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...
Floating up
Up
Up
Up
into a sanctuary where it feels.....almost good...
was suffering along forever believing there was...
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
...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imagine a world where things were reversed.
Girls could walk down the hallways, hands intertwined
Boys could stroll in the...
I had a dream
A wonderful dream
A dream about being in school.
Teachers shine light on the students
The light makes us all...
A community scarred,
A community broken,
A community no longer whole.
Forty-nine no longer for this world,
Forty-nine...
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...