Posted by Loulou on Jan 2, 2014 | 2 comments

From the latest news on many fronts, one would think in both India and Russia that many people feel it’s somehow hip to be anti-gay, that to have prejudices against personal choices is some sort of status symbol that sets one apart as superior to others, and you would be right while they, on the other hand, are very, very wrong.  Even a lowly kitty knows that.  Are these people EVER going to come out of their own tiny closets of prejudice?

You’ve read my views on this subject and here we are in a new year, 2014, for heaven’s sake, and still, two of the largest countries in the world are homophobic, backward, insistent on being ignorant of how the world is changing, has changed in many places, and righteously refusing to move into the present.  Attempting to suppress what is a genetic trait of some the human race is like ostracizing those with curly hair or hazel eyes or those who are shorter, taller, fatter, thinner than others. In short, it is a narrow-mindedness that is hard to fathom in this 21st century on planet earth.

Frankly, I’m not surprised about the presence of homophobia in Russia.  Look who’s in charge–my favourite ex-KGB member, haha.

And isn’t there something about fearing what one might be facing in oneself?  How many homophobic human beings might just be unwilling to look at the possibility that they could be gay themselves?  I would rephrase that: that they might be human themselves?

My wish for the new year is that being gay will become a non-issue.  That the word gay will disappear into maelstrom of labels for human beings of any kind and be replaced by words like kindness, generosity, expansiveness, magnanimity, and most important of all, acceptance of one’s fellow human beings.

Mama says I may be boring people to death with so much talk of gay rights and related subjects but if that’s the case, I hope I’ll hear a lot of zzzzzs out there.

At least I’ll know there are a lot of people reading this.

May your year be full of rainbows.