I have paid a debt (as so many others have), that shouldn't have had to be paid. [View all]

[William769]

As a little boy, I knew I was different from all the other boy’s I knew. I also knew from listening to adults that I was dirty, I was no good that God hated people like me. I was destined to a screwed up childhood. Fast forward to my teenage years, it only got worse.

Hearing terms like “faggot” “homo” (other terms that can not be listed here), just try to imagine what my teenage years were like (yes I went deep into the closet with the intention of never coming out).
Then came college & the start of the AIDS epidemic, deeper in the closet I went )I didn’t even take a night light with me).

I was destined to meeting men in seedy places looking for you know what. Intimacy was only a dream for me ( I seemed to be a lost soul).

I couldn’t join the armed forces, they didn’t want my “kind” had to be straight acting for fear of not being able to rent a decent home or hold a good job. I was a marked man and I had to try to hide that mark as best as I can.

I took a career in law enforcement to be the macho virile man society wanted me to be (I got very good a leading a double life, So good in fact I forgot who I really was).
As time went on & I got older & wiser and I met a man (David) I thought this would be just another one nighter stand in a long string of many but it wasn’t, I saw David was a lot like me, could it be?
We started dating, this was a strange thing for me to do (Gay men didn’t go out in public to show their affection (so I thought)).

We ended up moving in together, buying a house & raising David’s son Phillip. I was so happy my life started to have meaning, or did it? We were still not protected from hate crimes, we couldn’t get married. When it came to schools & doctors & just about everything else I was not recognized as one of the parents of our son. We decided to do something about that.

We became activists! We went to rallies, marches & spent money to no end to get our tiny little voices heard, we now had a purpose in life & that purpose was to seek justice for a injustice.
Phillip our son was killed by a drunk driver in 2003 & David died of AIDS in 2006. In our time together we did see changes made but not enough.

Fast forward to today, I am still here fighting the injustices of the LGBT community, still spending money that could be spent on causes to help cure people not on causes that are born with in this supposed great Country.
And as of today we are at the United States Supreme Court and all I have to say to you nine justices is this, our debt has been paid, please I beg of you let us live in peace & harmony as equals.

William H King

http://billking.net/