Gay Hate Crime Faces & Stories - Watch this. I dare you.

Then come back and tell me how gay rights are not like other rights.

You know why? Because they aren't.

People of ethnic backgrounds generally don't kill themselves because they're afraid their families will find out their ethnicity.

People of religious backgrounds aren't told to hide who they are so they can pass in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9zJq0QGl0

If you have not lived as a gay person you have no right to tell them to wait. Be patient. You can hide. You can pass.

If you are not with us, fine, but don't stand in our way because we will simply pass you by.

Yeah, the video is that powerful. It made me cry. It made me hurt. It made me mourn for people I don't even know, who were killed because they were gay. Or in the case of some people who never even had the chance to live, killed themselves because the world taught them to hate themselves that much.

If you have the stomach for it, visit http://www.TrueHateCrimes.com

Find out why we fight. Learn something. It might do you some good.

(And please note: This message is not to everyone. It's to the people who are telling us to accept what we're given with a smile on our face and be glad that we're even getting crumbs.)

:patriot: :cry:

...this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. GLBT's murdered for being GLBT are usually recorded as "homicides" and GLBT kids ( and adults, for that matter) driven to suicide are rarely recorded as such.

One senses a hidden holocaust, really.

.... though certainly not around the whole world.