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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Facebook is a wonderful thing! No, really, it is. I've been catching up on spme of the more substantial posts while I was in Israel and this one in the Jeruslam Post interested me greatly.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1257455212436&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
The article is an open letter to people. The talkbacks contain some of the usual vitriol. Sometimes I comment in the talkbacks, this time I have not. Well, so far I have not, at least.
We could dismiss this as "timmy's ramblings because he's just been to a new country and was impressed". I have. I was. But the substance of this letter is something that can affect us all, wherever we live. It shows that we must, every one of us, be aware of the power of positive and negative PR in our real struggle for equality.
Our duty to ourselves is to represent the strange community that we belong to in the best possible light while accepting that others will, for whatever reason, wish we did not exist. And we must educate those who are educable.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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