It was such
a F-A-N-T-A-B-U-L-O-U-S LONG (And you know guys how much I like that.) weekend,
isn’t it? While we all had fun during our weekend, there are some who didn’t.
And that’s what I’m gonna RANT today.
Just before
the long weekend came (Oooohh!) and as I was browsing my Facebook Newsfeed (Have I
told you that I am such a Facebook addict?), I stumbled upon an article about
what’s happening in Russia. And T-H-I-S is what
I’m RANTing about.
What did I
feel while I was reading that post?
FEAR
HEART-BROKEN
HELPLESS
The Winter
Olympics will take place in Sochi, Russia in 2014. The opening ceremony will
take place on February 7, 2014 and the closing ceremony will take place in
February 23, 2014. That would be less than S-I-X (Not the other “s” word.)
months from now. And it is fast approaching.
Some of the
athletes that will participate in the Winter Olympics are part of the LGBT
community, my second family.
As a gay man
myself, I could not help but feel FEAR for what will happen to these athletes
during that time. Will the LGBT athletes of each participating countries be
protected from this kind of harm? Will
they be okay? What will be the outcome of this game if THAT kind of thing will
continue?
I could not
help but feel HEART-BROKEN because all this time I thought that AFRICA is the
only country (Or continent for that matter.) that has ANTI-LGBT laws. I thought
that more and more people are accepting us for who we R-E-A-L-L-Y are and not
for whom THEY THINK WE ARE.
I feel HELPLESS because I don’t know any possible way, other than this blog post, for everyone
to hear my voice regarding this matter to help my fellow brothers and sisters
in that country.
Fighting for
LGBT RIGHTS, our rights as a human, is like the Olympics. It is not a game but
it is rather a constant struggle to let every living human in this world know
that we are not so different from the rest.
We stumble
and get hurt but we know that it is a part of the GAYlympics.
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| Photo from U.N. Free & Equal |
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