Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Human Rights Coalition
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Inspiration
August 11, 2009 By Meghan Chavalier Inspiration: "To fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence" What inspires you in your daily life? Have you met someone in your life that inspired you to become a better person? Today I want to discuss being gay and inspiring others. I have been asked many times why I started Stopping The Hate and it came from inspiration out of anger. Last year a young transgender woman Angie Zapata was murdered in Colorado. I was so angry and upset over her death that I decided to start the organization. I felt as if nothing was being done about our young men and women in the LGBT Community being taunted, beaten and murdered on a daily basis. So, although it was a horrific crime that took me to "wake up" I was inspired to get off my ass, quit thinking about myself, and try to do something for the LGBT Community. I will admit, at times, I get very frustrated because I feel much of the work that's done is ignored, but I continue to forge ahead to do what I think is right. I am inspired by the LGBT Community and what it means to me that we are safe and recognized as equal citizens in the United States of America and around the world. I have heard many things over the last year, like I only have this website to inflate my ego. I want to tell those people that I am not driven by ego. I am driven to make wrongs, right and I will continue to work for the LGBT Community until I breathe my last breath. I don't need people to pat me on the back, that's not why I do what I do. I do what I do because I genuinely love my community. With that said, I think it's very important for people in our community to find something in their life that will inspire them to help others. If its helping at your local AIDS Hospice, or helping the homeless or starting your own organization and helping the LGBT Community. I think too many times we go through life wondering what we can do, but often don't take the steps to get there. One person can change the world. It's true. One voice, can be heard globally that can change minds that were closed to now be open. Never think that because you are different that you don't make a difference in the world, because you do. Every single person is placed on Earth to make a difference. Some people stray and do the wrong things, but so many people do the right things and that's what your inspiration in life should be, to do the good things. When you learn to become selfless your whole life will change. I don't want to preach because that is not what I do in life. I just want others in the LGBT Community to know that you can make a difference. Being different is a gift. Imagine if you were like everyone else. Imagine if we all thought the same, dressed the same and acted the same how boring life would be. Embrace your differences, and then take those differences to inspire those around you. Whitney Houston has a new song on her new cd called "I Didn't Know My Own Strength." The words say it all for me. Lost touch with my soul I didn’t know my own strength Found hope in my heart, I didn’t know my own strength There were so many times I I didn’t know my own strength
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