Reason Why You should NOT be a Homophobic!

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I thought this was the most beautiful e
mail.
I would love to meet the person who
wrote it.

http://thegentry.blogspot.com/2006/03/
myspace-bulliten-homophobia.html

I am the boy who never finished high
school, because I got called a fag everyday.

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 not one of the lucky ones. I killed
myself just weeks before graduating high
school. It was simply too much to bear.

I am the (wo)man who fears that I will
never be able to be myself, to be free
of this secret because I won’t risk
losing my family and friends.

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 woman who died when the EMTs
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 didn't 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 ashamed to tell my own
friends I'm a lesbian, because they
constantly make fun of them.

I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to
a bloody pulp and left to die because
two straight men wanted to “teach me a
lesson”

My prayers go to anyone who suffers.
We are a collective of courage and hope.
Hatred will one day be a thing of the past.
We can only dream.

(from
http://delfindjmontano.blogspot.com in
support of Brian Gorell)

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO...
>There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
>Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an  emergency tool 
for
>survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
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>  *I*
>* The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112.* If you find
>yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
>emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
>establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 
112
>can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**
>
>
>          *II*
>* Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have 
remote
>keys?*
>This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
>If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
>someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.
>Hold your cell phone about a   foot from your car door and have the 
person
>at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone 
on
>their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive 
your
>keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles 
away,
>and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, 
you
>can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
>Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
>over a cell phone!"*
>
>
>          *III*
>Subject: Hidden Battery power
>Imagine your cell battery is very low , you are expecting an important 
call
>and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
>battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart 
with
>this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. 
This
>reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
>AND
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>
>
>       *IV*
>How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
>To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following 
digits on
>your phone:
>* # 0 6 #
>A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to 
your
>handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get
>stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. 
They
>will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes 
the
>SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
>You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that 
whoever
>stole it can't use/sell it either.
>If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing 
mobile
>phones.
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>Please spread this useful information around