A000283
Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:34 AM
Domistic partners
I am dropping you this line to beg you to have some compassion to those gay partners who lost their loved one's in that tragic day 09/11/01. Myself and my partner of more than 22 years are Americans just like you. We both served our country during the Vietnam war and we consider ourselves as a couple. After all, how long do a couple have to live together to be recognized as a couple? The neighbors on our street all know the guys who take vacations together, decorate our home for the holidays and look out for one another. When we first moved in people might have been a little different towards us but after several years at our home we have been accepted just the same as the old eighborhood. The old neighborhood is mostly Polish Catholic. We too are catholic. Most of our old neighbors came over here after WW II and some were in concentration camps. They were the ones who were our closest friends.
Our government needs to wake up and realize that we are not going away and you cannot ignore us because we are your neighbors,friends, brothers, sisters people you work with. Some of us are quiet and live a very secret life. But some of us are tired of hiding our true identities and we are coming out. If you don't accept us then there will be maybe another Dr. King only this time they might be gay and we will protest and write letters and do what ever we have to do to be recognized. I have seen a lot of my friends die of Aids and their families wouldn't even go to their funerals because they are afraid of
catching "GAY" or Aids.
Remember this when you are thinking of not giving aid to the surviving
partners of lost ones. We (and I ) certainly did not choose this life it was determined before I was born. Why (ask yourself) would anyone CHOOSE this life? You think we like to be mistreated and discriminated against by the very country we love. Absolutely NOT. I am not a sadist. I am this way because I was born this way. Why won't the straight majority realize that we are a minority just like any other minority?
Please help our Brothers and Sisters get the respect they deserve and treat them for what they are, surviving members of a horrible, horrible tragedy.
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