Saturday 25 May 2013

Let's do the time warp... again?

It's commonly known that for MANY years before recent history, LGBT rights and the whole community was subject to some pretty horrendous stuff. Beatings, police raids, death, being forced into mental hospitals etc, all form a part of the history.

Since i've been around, even i've seen massive improvements. You can't help but notice that "gay marriage" is a topic around the world that has got people talking and of course shows a rare bit of progress (either in place or on its way).

Amazingly though, while the different parts of the gay community celebrate world wide, i think many of us are forgetting some of our own kind as we take to our own excitement for progress.

Have a little read of this....

"A law in the city of St Petersburg law equates homosexuality with paedophilia and was passed by the city on February 29 of last year – despite more than 270,000 people signing an online petition against the measure.
Last year, St Petersburg authorities permitted a rally against homophobia, but its participants were attacked by masked thugs, none of whom were arrested."

Yup, thats right, Russia, of all places.

This is something i've known of for a little bit of time now, but tbh, feel kind of limited as to what can actually be done. In most cases you'd be able to try and push your own government to atleast speak up about this issue, but in truth, none of them seem keen to do so at the moment which IS now starting to cost lives.

Gay pride as we all know is held world over, yet still remains illegal in russia under the current laws, those who do attend them are often arrested or face being beaten. THIS is what has to change.

But how exactly do you change russia? You see, this is an age old question i've often asked myself and tbh, i should be watching india given what my friend was explaining to me the other day.

See in Indian law, everybody is equal... that's right, in India, you can already marry a person of the same sex, great news right? Kind of... see while the law has kept ahead of many other parts of the world, it's also kept ahead of peoples own opinion's in the country, which apparently, can still lead to some homophobic things being said etc.

With Russia, i'd love to know if it is just the laws that are changing to become stupidly homophobic, or do these laws now actually represent the voices of the people in the country?

I guess it's something we won't find out for a while yet anyway, but either way WE ALL need to push for change with this, so if you see any petition's, then sign them, lets not leave people open to attack under laws which we all know... are crazy.

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