Lost History - Of The LGBT

Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transsexuals didn’t just arrive from another planet sometime in the 1970s. LGBT people have been part of every culture since time began, though prejudice and ignorance has often suppressed their stories. February is LGBT History Month which redresses the balance by highlighting this hidden history. Highlights include a screening of Living with Pride – Ruth Ellis at 100, a moving documentary about an openly gay African-American woman celebrating her 100th birthday, at Swiss Cottage Central Library.

On 8 February, Andy Bell will take the decks at the Black Cap, Camden, to celebrate the life of the disco star Sylvester, one of the first high profile figures to go public with their HIV status. In Scotland on 14 February there will be a screening of witty documentary The Celluloid Closet at The Filmhouse, Edinburgh; plus special guided tours of the Scottish National Galleries.

Culled from 'Positive Nation Magazine'. February 2007 Issue 129

To whom it may concern, I didnt take permission to publish this and I hope this sentence obtains any needed.

If Only George Bush Thinks!

Its 7:35pm and I just came home and put on the TV to see what’s left of Channel 4 news since I had been out all day and not been able to grab any news apart from what I read over the internet.

Anyway, as I tuned in to the news, I saw the issue on Iran and its nuclear whatever. What rather drew my attention is one of the kids protesting on the streets of Iran against America as they have been instigated to do. He said “America is too busy to attack us”. I couldn’t but laugh, he was right but not really.

I do not support development of any weapon but at the same time, I do not support America’s dictatorial behaviour over the world even on things they have done and still doing. Having said that, and back to my main issue, what amused me about the young man’s word was when I relate it to who is in-charge of America at the moment.

If only junior George Bush knows when he is busy? If only he knows when to stop? If only he thinks ahead or reflects back? If only he doesn’t let his biased intuition lead him? If only he knows the difference between help and attack? If only he thinks of the soldiers he is sending to pre-mature death, the many weak souls that we’ll lose, the so much widow, widowers, childless, motherless, fatherless, etc that wars make? I mean, if only he knows the boundary between helping and taking over. But unfortunately, he knows absolutely nothing; pity.

So when I listen to the young man say “America is too busy to attack Iran”, I laughed. The wish should rather be that Bush’s impulsive spirit does not even think of Iran. He has caused a lot of chaos in the world already… I pray he don’t add more by attacking Iran before he leaves office. Unfortunately, he still has a long time before he goes. Sorry for the world.

Laws Against Simple Nature - Polygamy & Gays

Today on Heaven & Earth, the wonderful BBC program I love watching every Sunday morning, I am happy about the discussion on polygamy in America.

Polygamy to me isn’t wrong so long as it is between consenting adults. In Africa where I originate from, polygamy works and still does. The notion that there is always rancour in a polygamous family always leaves me laughing when compared to the rate of domestic violence that occur within monogamous marriage or even the attending divorces. While I was a Christian, these are some of those Christian righteousness that I do not go with including dressing, etc. The bible is full of polygamists who became God’s best friends, etc; what of the ‘man after God’s heart’?

Nevertheless, the issue is that some laws in our world are actually tyrannical even when they seem to be the wish of the society; and laws against polygamy are just one of those bad ones. Presently in the UK, we are seeing how some ‘holier than thou’ so-called men of God are threatening to discriminate against some section of the society by denying even hotel/B&B rooms on the bases that two people of the same sex has found companionship in themselves.

Yet what these people forget is that the same God they claim to worship – if at all they do or they control the God – gives children to even homeless mad people, to the rich and poor, to the slave and free, etc, without discrimination. Yet, they sit in their damned mortal body to determine who should take care of a child whose parents aren’t there to take care of. I think they should first prosecute that God for denying these children their biological parents at first.