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                <title>Homophobia</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:12:50 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I was asked by a watcher of mine to repost this through a note. I will do it gladly because I can't stand Homophobia. Is there a reason for all the hatred other than fear? Is there a reason for it other than Religion? Some people are so afraid that members of the same sex are going to "come onto [them]" that they will insult, beat up, and in extreme cases Kill them so that their hatred is established and so what they think is going to happen won't. People say that the Bible says that being homosexual is wrong, but the Bible is all interpretation of "God", and is further interpreted by the reader. Who knows what it really means? By the time it gets to you it's so diluted that what "God" really wanted you to hear is no longer being said. It's like looking at Mars through a telescope: What you see is not what's really happening.<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>Love is not defined by color, creed, sexual preference, or gender. Feel free to add your own story to the end.<br /><br />I am the girl who goes through hell and a half at school because I defend homosexuals instead of abusing them, and have been called the Antichrist because I don't believe people should be judged based on who they love.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag everyday<br /><br />I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.<br /><br />I am the one working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.<br /><br />I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.<br /><br />We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.<br /><br />I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.<br /><br />I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.<br /><br />I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.<br /><br />I am the woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.<br /><br />I am a warrior for my country serving proud, but can't be my true self because gays aren't allowed in the military.<br /><br />I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.<br /><br />I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends I'm a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.<br /><br />I am the who isn't sure what she is. I am the who is rejected by her "best friends" because of a less-than-conventional crush.<br /><br />I am what I am and I don't know who because I am always thinking about what other people will make of me. Who am I? Not boy not girl, just me and little people care about who you are and what you long for when you look like someone else obviously and your wishes and dreams seem easily to be guessed. Fail.<br /><br />I am the person who would be happier as the other gender but fears that getting a sex change will cost me the love of everyone close to me.<br /><br />I am the person who can only be myself over the internet because then I can tell my friends that I'm a man when I am....even if I do not have the body of one.<br /><br />I am the girl who cried all night because her mother tried to convince me I wasn't bisexual, and refuses to have the conversation with me.<br /><br />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."<br /><br />This is the boy, Matthew Shepard. On October 7, 1998 Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson lead him to a remote area east of Laramie where they demonstrated unimaginable act... ]]></description>
                <author>~Negitive-Zero</author>
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