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Gay Pride Sicily

Journal Entry: Sun May 22, 2011, 12:59 PM


Yesterday i was at the Gay Pride parate of my city!
It was awesome to see so many people figth for their rigths!Everyone was so kind, and warm..everyone dance, and sing and talk about a good future!
I don't understand why people think that we "must be afraid of gays".. in Italy they talk about them like if they are different, or monsters, that God will punish all of them.
THEY'RE NOT. It's stupid to think that.
They're made by flesh, and bones, just like me. A man loves another man. So what?It's love. And i support them. Many of my friends are gays, and they're not afraid to say it. I'm proud of them, because i understand that it could be difficoult, especially in these years, to speak about their sexuality, to talk with their parents.
And i'll continue to figth for their rigths 'till the end of time!:rose:




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  • Watching: The Little Dorrit
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~TearisShatteredMoon May 22, 2011   General Artist
You are right there is no reason for people to mistreat people who are gay, whether their lifestyle or not, what others choose to do behind closed doors doesn't hurt you, and if you are opposed judging and hurting them won't change anyone. However I do think by having special pride parades when if someone said they were proud to be hetero they would be called a bigot, just serves to further separate people. That said I am glad you had a good time, nothing wrong with people being what they are!
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~Ariel87 May 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
the funny thing, is that politicians, priests and so on, say that they are different..actually in Italy there are a lot of sexuals scandals: politicians that talk about "the traditional family" and after they take drugs and do sex with transexual.
Priestes that abuse of childrens, take drugs, and after go to the Church..HOW they can do that?

I think that these prides are good, especially after these episodes..also because, they talk about "rigths" that they don't have.
Always in Italy, in two different cities, two gay guys, they take away the driver license just because they are gay. It's normal?:(
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~TearisShatteredMoon May 24, 2011   General Artist
I can see your point, It's not the same situation here, over here, at my husbands work place he can be fired for putting up a flier for a party if it's for couples, but those who are gay can advertise all their events and have a pride party at work, that's wrong. Equal rights are going the other direction here, they are so overcompensation that a lot of the poor and middle income people are paying literally for the behaviors of others in the past.

But I do totally hope that those things get changed, no one should ever have to be afraid of who they are.
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~Ariel87 May 28, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
...wow O_O
It's the opposite of Italy..i'm..speechless.
well..also here there are things that are stranges..people that go to university can't find a work, some of them became depressed, because there isn't work, it's hard to have a dregree, in my city a boy commited suicide because, after the second degree, he couldn't find a work..there are people here of 25, 30, 40 years that haven't work..
life suck here..
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~TearisShatteredMoon May 28, 2011   General Artist
damn, it's wrong, gay straight male female black white purple doesn't matter, no one should feel they have to hide who they are! My heart for them, hope things get better!
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~Stichflamme May 22, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
Italia eh il paese con la chiesa catholica la più grande. Quindi é normale questa paura, perche vi hanno detto tante volte che l'unica buona cosa é di sposare qualcuno de l'altro sesso e fare tanti bambini. In più i romani, nei tempi passati, erano piutosto bisexuale, quindi adesso che non chapiscano(?) la cultura vecchia i uomi si vogliono distanzare, essere maccho etc.
E triste percche nella Rennaisence (scusi, sò solo la parola francese) l'italia era molto differento. Se pensi solo di Michelangelo...
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~Ariel87 May 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
E' vero!Io infatti non sono cattolica.. non mi riconosco nella Chiesa..!:)
(parli bene italiano, non preoccuparti!)
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Credo che uno dei problemi siano gli uomini. Noi uomini teniamo molto (anche troppo) alla nostra virilità e quindi abbiamo paura che anche parlando dei gay, qualcuno possa pensare che noi lo siamo. Ancora di più se abbiamo amicizie gay.
Non ti nascondo che anch'io possiedo un po' di questa paura anche se ne comprendo l'errore. Credo comunque che ci sia bisogno di tempo per far sì che la società possa accettarli come persone normali, come esse sono.
Ripeto, il problema maggiore è questa paura che dev'essere esorcizzata attraverso il loro riconoscimento.
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~Ariel87 May 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Si appunto..
noto spesso che i maschietti hanno paura a lasciarsi andare, giudicano "frocio" tutto ciò che riguarda darsi un abbraccio o altro, per esempio. Però poi sbavano dietro due ragazze che si baciano, tanto per dirne una!
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Credo che sia qualcosa di biologico. Siamo tutti così.
Voi donne siete molto più avanti di noi, socialmente parlando (e non solo). Purtroppo questa è la realtà. Mi ci metto anch'io anche se non ne sono fiero ma almeno sono onesto.
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