Gay Flash Mob
I may not have been there, but it looks like it was fabulous:
This is really the way to show up the meaningless waffle coming from the two main parties. The pro-gay rhetoric coming from the Tories really needs to be exposed for the sham it is (Cameron’s and Grayling’s gaffes don’t prove it but the article above sure does). Tamsin and The Commons deserve unlimited support – they may just be the future of politics.
Standing Up To Hate
Last night I attended a vigil in Trafalgar Square for Ian Baynham, the gay man recently murdered there. I’ve written recently about why gay hate might be so much in the ascendant once more, but last night was cause for optimism. Thousands of people – gay, straight, white, every ethnic minority under the sun, older, younger, you name it everyone was there to make a stand against hate. Friends and family of Ian’s were in attendance, some of them spoke and shared their private memories of a man lost because he dared to stand up for who he was.
The video is of TV personality Sue Perkins, reading out a list of people lost to homophobic hate in the last ten years. It was sobering to experience, and remains sobering to watch.
