Anti-homophobia list.

tigtog at Hoyden About Town reposts this list:

Notice: To all those who think Homophobia is wrong and want to fight for a better future for our gay and lesbian friends, please repost this:

• I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
• I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
• I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
• We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
• I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
• I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
• I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
• I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
• We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
• I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
• I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
• I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
• I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
• I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
• I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
• I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
• I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
• I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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Links for the day.

* The Particle Zoo.  Omg.  Via phinnia.

* Via symposiarch: Aqua.

* Greasemonkey for IE.  *slow blink*

* Via Bitch PhD, a librarian writes a letter to a patron about the book Uncle Bobby's Wedding.  A fantastic read.

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Today's mood math, wherein which I stubbornly put a + next to each -, because I will be damned if I let this be a bad day.

- The hot water still isn't working.
+ I washed my hair anyways.
+ I've drunk a full liter of water.
- Gloomy gus o'clock weather.
+ My foot is lessening in its hurtingness.
+ Hooray for a MediaWiki table structure image.
- Ran a bit late for work.
- The bread I keep at work got moldy.
+ I have an Excel spreadsheet that holds the MediaWiki table structure, because I really do like Excel too much.
+ I'm learning the MySQL command line stuff.

I have a million programs open with a million tabs per program, and this pleases me.

ahahahaha.

I am getting sick.

FF's spellchecker suggests "Echinoderm", instead of "Echinacea".

I am full of lists.  When I can feel myself getting sick:

[sleep]
* Try to go to bed an hour earlier than usual.  Don't push it, but.
* Don't overexert myself.  (I failed this today, in that I walked a lot.)

[food]
* Eat lots of good, boring food.  Make sure to stay on the full side of things.  (I am usually not, so.)
* Buy soup or other easy-to-make things.  Hell, buy chicken broth and put it in a thermos, if need be.

[water]
* Make tea.  (Today's was one of Gypsy Cold Care, one of Organic Echinacea, and a dash of red peppers.  Nothing special, but the red peppers felt really nice.)
* Drink tons of water.  See also "tea".

[meds &c]
* Take a multivitamin.
* Make sure I have NyQuil.
* Buy tissues or stock up on toilet paper.

[other]
* Clean my room up a bit, as I'll have no energy for it later, and tidiness helps immensely.
* If I'm living with someone, warn them.  Same if I've spent close time with someone in the past couple of days.
* Do a load of laundry.
* Take a stupendously hot shower.

I'm good at lists.

What do you do when you can feel yourself getting sick?

I am so easily amused.

Dear the cross-section of kitteh-lovers and dorks:

Omg lookit the name.