With the UK election fuss of the past hours (go Caroline Lucas, first green MP in history!) international affairs must not be forgotten.
For several months now I have been following the restless build up to the Baltic Pride, scheduled to take place tomorrow, 8 May, in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. A few days ago Lithuanian courts suspended the permission to hold the demonstration for LGBT rights.
Sorry, what?
edit: Back on, it seems!
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Can you link me up with more info about this? xoox
good'un :')
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I did have a huge link-badge-thing to an amnesty international petition at the bottom, but it has disappeared! probably because the action has by now succeeded and all is (relatively) well! See, although the pride is back on, that doesn't eliminate the mass of opposition and homophobia the poor guys are going to face. I fear for their safety..
Save Baltic Pride now, updated
Amnesty international article
Baltic Pride website
Much ado about nothing. No rights of gay people are suppressed. There is no such a thing as homophobia, but a phenomenon of victimization, i.e. the phenomenon of gay guys feeling victims. I'm a Protestant in mostly Catholic country, but I don't feel a victim. I might, if I wanted to get some compassion. But I just refuse to be a victim and choose to be a victor. The problem is only in the brain..
Yes but how would you explain that active hate that some people express towards homosexuals and transgendered people?
Also you say that you're a Protestant in a Catholic country but you don't feel a victim.. have you actually been oppressed?
I agree with you that it's a construct, but a construct of society, not of the brain. How can you say that homosexuals imagine the hate and slurs that are thrown at them?
Viorelas, the difference is that as a Protestant in any democratic country, you're free to practice your beliefs without the constant risk of being prejudiced against, fired from your workplace or even attacked - all things that gay people experience vigorously in societies like Lithuania's.
Cases of sacking for homosexuality are common there, so I don't think I need to give examples. Is that not homophobia though? Who in this day and age has the right to decide which sexual orientation is right or wrong?
And indeed, the mobs of haters such as were seen during the Baltic Pride - were they also imagined by the 'victims'?
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