This isn't the sort of
thing that I was expecting to be blogging about today. I was expecting to tell
you all about a new Doctor Who toy set coming out this Summer from B&M, but
the attack that has happened in Orlando has really upset me.
I heard of this news when
a friend of mine posted a picture on her Facebook of the gay pride flag,
which said underneath it Love is Love. Her comment on the picture was
this, and I quote "Killing people because they’re gay. WTAF?!
There I was, thinking that
people/generations/communities etc were becoming more accepting of same sex
relationships and then comes along Omar Mateen and slaughters 50 innocent
people in a gay club! Such madness. Such evil. And so unbelievably sad.
And
just a thought, why do we apply ’gay’ and ‘lesbian’ labels anyway? Is there a
label for someone who only fancies brunettes? Or someone who only fancies tall
people? I don't think so. We should all just be able to love who we love.
Peacefully."
I liked and commented on
her photo, later it is talked about in more detail on the news at 6pm. Me, my
mum and my sister were watching and just knowing that someone
actually walked in to a gay night club and actually killed forty nine
people.
I just makes me feel very
sad for the people who have lost their lives, and for the families who I don't
know who have lost their loved ones.
I think it's appalling that
still in two thousand and bloody sixteen, still there is gay and lesbian
prejudice going on in the world today. People still feel the need to show
their ignorance and question whether or not a man walking into a gay
nightclub with a automatic rifle and committing mass murder is actually
homophobia.
With gay pride happening
this month, this should be a time for gays to feel good about themselves, let
them be who they are. Gay people should stay true to themselves, live in an
accepting and appreciative world, not live in fear and feel the need to
hide away. Words can not describe it, it is just despicable, unacceptable
and unbelievable to think that someone could do something like that just
because of people's sexuality. May I point out that people do not choose to be
gay, people do choose to hate, buy assault weapons, seek out innocent
targets and commit mass murder. It's completely unjustified and unfair.
Gays and Lesbians are people too. They are not outcasts or inhuman subjects to
point and laugh at. It's 2016! Why can't we just all get along and be more
understanding towards these things, eh? Some people are Gay. So what? they're
not doing anything wrong apart from loving someone of the same sex.
I have gay friends and an
uncle who is gay, there just about as normal as someone like me who has Aspergus
syndrome. People lash out and mock things that they don't understand. I feel
perplexed as to why we feel the need to go to such extreme lengths that we need
to hate gays and resort to killing and mass murder. what is the point? what do
you stand to achieve? the people who died in that nightclub wanted to live,
they did nothing wrong, they were ordinary people living their lives and they
had their lives so cruelly and harshly taken away by homophobia. The reason why
this upsets me so much is because I don't understand why this had
to happen and for such pointless a reason.
I am currently performing
in a play that addresses gay prejudice, and the character that I play is a
young gay man, who is scared of coming out who is in every sense of the word 'a
nervous gay'. In all honesty I feel quite happy to playing a gay person, even
if I am not gay myself. The storyline that my character is involved in in the
play shows that it is okay to be who you are, you shouldn't be afraid to
be who you are and that we should be a bit more understanding and accepting of
the fact to let gay people be who they are and don't judge them. I don't
know why people are so against it? I really don't.
Especially when there have
been significant signs of things moving forward, for instance, if you look back
to 2013, gay people couldn't get married in Britain. Now they can. Now to learn
of something like this happening, it is almost like we as species are taking
one step forward and then two steps back. So in four years we haven't
really learnt anything at all.
Also for the inevitable
loathsome statements from the NRA blaming everyone except themselves,
please USA sort this out. If anyone's instinct is to deny this was a homophobic
attack, please, in the politest terms fuck off!
On a similar matter I read
somewhere about the church disapproving gays, saying if you're gay you won't
get into heaven? what sort of bollocks is that? not only is that ridiculous but
it is completely stupid. If God is this all loving, all forgiving, mighty being
but then turns around and goes "Oh no, you're not coming in because you're
Gay!" what kind of a God does that make him or it? a hypocrite. It's
perfectly apparent.
This was a target attack on
gay people, the killer was narcissistic driven by hate and rage and he wanted
to kill, he wanted to destroy lives. So that's what he did. What his reasons
for wanting to do that were, I don't know.
The point I want to make
from all of this is, people are who they are. I sure am who I am. I get up in
the morning and fully appreciate the enjoyment of living a day of human
existence. Explaining my love for the music of David Bowie, or my passionate
love for Doctor Who, or my drive for being a quiz fanatic. Like it or not we
are all products, we are all born with an expiry date. We make our lives what
they are through our choices; once you've made those choices there is no going
back. No one can undo the damage that has been done in Orlando, nor bring back
the people that have died but what we can do is learn to live with it.
Hopefully we can draw things to a peaceful conclusion and put an end to this
dangerous madness.
Thank you very much.
