We don’t need reminding why we need to support all the “Pride Marches” that are taking place locally, nationally and internationally. I live in a place where I have the freedom to write my stories and publish them. And most of you live in a place where you have the freedom to read them. If any of you live in places where reading my stories is illegal, then I sincerely hope you are careful and discreet, but I wish you didn’t have to be.
But times are changing. Intolerance has taken hold again. I may have the legal right to write and publish my stories, but even where I live, we are being persecuted again. Just look at how the Trans community are being treated, even by other members of the LGBTQI+ community.
Then this crops up on my social media feed, and I’m reminded how precarious my rights are!
If you click on the above picture, it will take you to the article in The Advocate. I realise this is China, a communist state, but we need to heed this warning. Given the current state of the world, with democratic countries utilising whichever minority is convenient to further their cause and path to power. We must fight to protect the rights we have and continue the struggle until we all have equal rights.
I don’t usually write political posts, as even though we are part of the same LGBTQI+ community, our political allegiances and sympathies are varied. So, regardless of your political affiliation, we all want the same thing. We want to be treated with respect and without prejudice. It makes me shudder to think that if I lived in a different place, I could be arrested for what I am doing.
Hear hear, David. Freedom is not something to take lightly or assumed will be there forever. Thank you.