COMMENT: POPES, PREJUDICE AND 2010
Comment by Alex Hopkins on December 30, 2009 at 1:28 pm
It has been a challenging year for us gays, or should I say for us gays who keep our eyes on something more than the next club night in Vauxhall. And as the year comes to an end, those of us who are actually interested in what is happening in our so called community are inevitably going to be weighing up the positives and negatives.
Since the heinous murder of Ian Baynham in September, the last quater of 2009 has proved to be particularly tumultuous. If one good thing came out of Ian’s death it was the show of defiant anger in the Trafalgar Square vigil against Hate Crime. People seemed to have at least temporarily been stirred into action by an event that threatened to obliterate all that the gay cause had fought for in the past.
Were the gays actually beginning to think about something other than the hedonistic merry go round that constituted their fabulous, but ultimately futile existence? As the candles flickered in the solemn air that night, there seemed to be the possibility that people might start caring for one another again.
No matter how tenuous the need to look after one another’s welfare was that night, it is something we desperately need to hold on to. As if Ian’s murder was not enough, the last few months have shown that there are people out there who really dislike us. In fact, they would rather we do not exist at all.
Tags: BBC World Service, Capital punishment, Gerhard Maria Wagner, Grammy Award, Hurricane Katrina, Peter Horrocks, trafalgar square, Uganda
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