IDAHOT

For a breath-takingly amazing piece on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, check out BB's post. I'm not going to try to compete with that. Have some creative writing based on the day instead.

We are the people. We are your children, we are your siblings. We are your classmates, your colleagues, your friends, your acquaintances. We are the people you pour your heart out to at night, we are the strangers who smile at you in the street.
We are not the fags, the trannies, the queers. We are not the poofters who deserve to be shot. We are not your stereotypes- we are not your lipstick lesbians, not your metrosexuals. We are not your charity cases. We are not your conversation pieces.
We are struggling in silence, we are screaming for change. We are fighting, battles you will never have to understand. We are living, lives as complex and intricate as any other, our beings made of the same stuff as stars. We are breathing, in and out, in and out, the air the dinosaurs exhaled. We are loving, and loving, and loving.
We are one. We are individuals. We are here, whether you like it or not, and we refuse to leave.
We are the people. We are human. We are just like you.