In response to Riley...

[kindigo]

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

I am the girl who kisses her girlfriend on the sidewalk and laughs at those who glare.

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 transgendered person who uses the bathroom that suits me, and demands that any complaining staff explain their complaint to my face in front of the entire restaurant -- and shares with my other trans friends which restaurants don't raise a stink.

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

I am the father who punished his son for calling you a fag.

I am the preacher who told my congregation that love, not hate, is the definition of a true follower of God.

I am the queer who sometimes forgets that not everyone is tolerant and awesome because I have such wonderful friends.

I am the queer who is out and open at work, and treated no differently for it.

I am the queer whose father told her "I don't care, as long as she makes you happy."

I am the gender-queer whose day is made when someone calls her 'sir' or 'this nice young man'.

I am the girl who when she came out, her mother was hurt because she felt that she "was the last to know".

I am the girl whose grandparents want to know if she's met that special girl.



I am making a difference. Hate will NOT win.