Standing Up
I came across a great (and fascinating) resource for people working toward GLBT human rights around the world. The “Louder We Sing” handbook was put out by Amnesty International a few years ago. I highly recommend even a quick skim. Here’s a couple of quotes that caught my eye:
”We’ve always been part of a larger movement and added our voice to the demands of women and indigenous people. It’s been very obvious to us that if we don’t want to be discriminated against, we have to fight against other kinds of discrimination.”
-Patria Jiménez, member of the Mexican Congress, quoted in New York Blade News
”If rights of sexual orientation appear revolutionary, that is due not to the ”revolutionary” concept of sexual diversity (for divergent and transmutable sexual norms have been with us throughout time) but rather to the revolutionary character of human rights law itself.”
- Eric Heinze, Sexual Orientation: A Human Right
April 28th, 2007 at 8:11 am
in the philippines, the gay community hold annual pride marches, commemorating the extensive efforts of the gay community to change the negative stigma that was chained to gay people. for many years this efforts were rewarded by social tolerance leading to social acceptance and understanding of the gay community, more and more people are now able to come out of their closet and just be gay and be not afraid to show it to the world. there are still lapses but with the Civil Gay Rights Law that has been passed by congress 3 years ago ( Akbayan and the Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network Philippines (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas, Inc.). Passed on January 23, House Bill 6416 prohibits discrimination in areas such as employment, education, health services, public service (including military service), commercial and medical establishments.) it thus shows that we the gay people will never be shunned away. one way or the other, the world will understand