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WARNING! EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, DISTURBING VIDEO
I debated putting this on my LJ. It's exactly what it says. Does it really need attention?
Yes, even if you can't watch it.
Because it's tangible proof, evidence that this (still) exists. In what could be called the golden age of citizen journalism, atrocity is at least not afforded the silence and invisibility it once was, even if we can't directly end it.
On this Coming Out Day, I present this as evidence of why this work is still important. This video's description is given as just Africa, but many have suggested it's Uganda specifically (the UB article cites several media outfits reporting), the country with the proposed "Kill the Gays" bill.
While we in this country we are privileged enough to have such actions be illegal, we must not falter and fool ourselves into thinking our work is done here or anywhere else.
The subject of this video was someone's son. He was a little boy who played, he was an awkward teenager, he was a human being who was murdered brutally for no better reason than the fact he was gay and therefore "different". The group Support Gay Marriage Across America cites this senselessness as "the byproduct of what American conservative evangelicals have been exporting to Africa. Hatred pure hatred."
Use your horror and your outrage to do something, to speak out. Even if you aren't political and never have been, this is the perfect example of why you should be, even a little bit. Vote and keep public office free of people that think homosexuality is a sin, something to be "healed", akin to bestiality and pedophilia, and anyone else that thinks an obscure passage in ONE RELIGION'S holy book that is trumped by the greater message of said religion.
Accept nothing less than equality.
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
I debated putting this on my LJ. It's exactly what it says. Does it really need attention?
Yes, even if you can't watch it.
Because it's tangible proof, evidence that this (still) exists. In what could be called the golden age of citizen journalism, atrocity is at least not afforded the silence and invisibility it once was, even if we can't directly end it.
On this Coming Out Day, I present this as evidence of why this work is still important. This video's description is given as just Africa, but many have suggested it's Uganda specifically (the UB article cites several media outfits reporting), the country with the proposed "Kill the Gays" bill.
While we in this country we are privileged enough to have such actions be illegal, we must not falter and fool ourselves into thinking our work is done here or anywhere else.
The subject of this video was someone's son. He was a little boy who played, he was an awkward teenager, he was a human being who was murdered brutally for no better reason than the fact he was gay and therefore "different". The group Support Gay Marriage Across America cites this senselessness as "the byproduct of what American conservative evangelicals have been exporting to Africa. Hatred pure hatred."
Use your horror and your outrage to do something, to speak out. Even if you aren't political and never have been, this is the perfect example of why you should be, even a little bit. Vote and keep public office free of people that think homosexuality is a sin, something to be "healed", akin to bestiality and pedophilia, and anyone else that thinks an obscure passage in ONE RELIGION'S holy book that is trumped by the greater message of said religion.
Accept nothing less than equality.
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
