Sunday, May 07, 2006

things are never black and white. In fact, the world would be ugly if everything has to be black and white. And there’s something poignantly beautiful about the shimmering shades of grey...

To be gay is to grow up and live in a cage made of people’s put-downs, ignorant labels, derisive jokes, outright ranting and explicit laws. We see exclusions everywhere we look – in family traditions, employee benefits, in army service, in job promotion. We see hate scrawled everywhere – on posting boards, religious sermons, even in parents’ letters to far-off sons and daughters.

We hear silence when the censors have flicked the switch. Silence again when, even when our parents know we’re gay, they don’t have a good word to say about it. And more silence when we see so many others in our city who are clearly homosexual gag themselves for fear of exposure. But worst of all, we too often hear silence from our own lips, surrendering away our very own dignity.

The cage often looks inescapable. And we wonder sometimes if it may be wiser to just bear it all to our dying day, and take our fears, frustrations and futile hopes with us to our graves.
But some of us can’t do that. I can’t. If I did, all my parents’ and teachers’ efforts would have been in vain. I can do them no greater honour than to keep speaking about humanity over hypocrisy, honesty over hype.
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got this from www.yawningbread.org
pretty thought provoking.

have 2 chi tests tmr then geog on tues.
haven started studying.
wads new.
tmr we need to cheorograph somg 20 sec dance thing
for drama syf.haha.will see how it goes.
thou we tot of some really stupid moves..

watched the election results last nite till bout 1 am..pretty interesting.
the ang mo kio results announcing paps win isnt all tt impressive..
but the pm just kept talking about his strong mandate n strong win.ha.
no pun intended only.

i really so dun have enough tights and leotards for
the 5 consecutive summer sch lessons.
and i hope i get my new shoes soon.
n luckily it starts at noon..so i dun have to miss common tests-
if there r any, on those days.

yes lynn, ill try not to be so lazy n blog more often=)

by Miss Pek at 15:19 |