Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't you sometimes just feel like screaming your head off? especially after reading something that wrecks your mood and your nerves.
Scouring over the Guyana Chronicle, I stumbled across this headline:
"Seven confessed homosexuals fined for wearing female attire"
Not only were they charged for wearing female clothing, they were also charged for loitering. What a mockery!! Since when has the law dictated what a person is allowed to wear? I wonder if soon we're going to have to display the Nazi symbol prominently on our attire. Whatever happened to freedom of expression? aren't these persons just expressing themselves? This is pure madness!
As for the loitering charge, that's even more nonsense. Am I not allowed to just linger on the road now? are we under some sort of a curfew? seriously, how come no one told me that we were living under martial law? On any given day, there are countless persons who just walk the roads aimlessly (I happen to be one of them), persons can always be seen sitting at the roadsides, or hanging at street heads, why was this never a problem? or is just because they individuals in question are homosexuals? If that's the case, then this nonsense has to stop.
Guyanese need to realize that the world is changing, the world has changed and we need to change with it. We cannot sit by idly and then want to play catch up with everyone else, it's just not possible. We need to put this old fashion, traditionalist mentality behind us and remember that the time for that has long gone. The world is not what it used to be - A black man is leader of the free world for Christ sakes -, the days for these narrow minded, myopic ideals have passed, it'll do well for us to get rid of what still remains of them.
Whether or not some people want to accept it, they need to realize that homosexuals form an integral part of society. They teach our kids, protect the country, look after us when we're sick and so much more so we need to realize that the time for this discrimination has to stop and people need to understand and appreciate that homosexuals now make a valuable contribution to the everyday lives of many many many Guyanese.
Read the story here. (not a permanent link)
1 comment:
I couldn't agree with you more. ppl need to get over these crazy old fashion ideas and realize that we're living in a new world.
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