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“Love is Love”: Pro LGBTQI+ in a homophobic country ~ Tout Ô

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“Love is Love”: Pro LGBTQI+ in a homophobic country ~ Tout Ô

In my Anti-LGBTQI+ country, when I decided to write this post, most were amazed. What would a heterosexual black and African woman have to do with questions of sexual orientation? After all, it is not the “legitimate” causes to defend that are lacking in this environment of ours.

Indeed, the evils of our society are so numerous that questions of gender and sexual orientation are relegated to the background. Like Cameroon, 69 countries in the world are Anti-LGBTQI+ and some go so far as to apply the death penalty in the name of the attack on good morals. And yet, isn’t it people who make society? It’s the month of the PRIDE » (or ” PRIDE “) and I would like to tell you why despite my condition, I am LGBTQI+ “friendly”.

« Love is Love », tout est dit !

It’s that simple. I will be told that my side unconventional and “Western” take over my “Africanness”. But it is not a war against institutions or culture but against common sense. Discrimination of any kind cannot be justifiable. There are no people more legitimate than others to live their sexual and sentimental intimacy in a consented and fulfilled way.

The excuse that is often used here to justify ingrained homophobia, after that of religion, concerns the “propaganda” around this cause. It’s quite funny when you know how religion, for example, entered into our cultural heritage, especially to us Africans. For my part, I believe that causes that are not intended to hurt people do not have to please everyone. Homophobia, just like racism, sexism, xenophobia or tribalism should be fought with the utmost energy. I even regret that the other struggles do not have as much scope or that there is not a coalition between them all. Since in each of these causes, it is a question of equality, justice as well as love of oneself and of the other.

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LGBTQI+ people are also human beings, citizens

In view of recent events, especially in Uganda, it is necessary to remember this. THE LGBTQI+ are human beings, who according to the convention of human rights, have the marital freedom. In this agreement, it was not specified the sex of the concerned. Yet the multiplication of acts of Anti LGBTQI+ hatred makes me wonder: hadn’t the States read all the articles before ratifying it? Or that one, like the ones about women’s rights for example, were written at the bottom of the page in tiny print?

TV5 Monde report on the condition of the LGBTQI+ community in Africa

Yet they are there among us, contributing just like us to the economy and the life of our countries. They work, pay taxes, but have to live in hiding. Some had to immigrate to save their lives, causing a “brain drain” and wealth at the same time. Is it normal that the intimate activities of people in full possession of their faculties and consenting have become the concern of people not concerned? To the point of endangering their physical, moral and psychological integrity?

Why do I support the LGBTQI+ community? It’s simple: Love, Respect and Tolerance. To love oneself as one is despite one’s “difference”, to love others without distinction of gender or race. It’s just love with a capital “A” and it shouldn’t be a shame or a misfortune.

Macklemore ft Ryan LEWIS – Same Love (Ode to Love and Tolerance)

No people are not LGBTQI+ to annoy you or pervert your children. Fun fact: at least 80% of the population is heterosexual and cisgenre. So even if you have the impression to the contrary, the LGBTQI+ have not invaded the planet. The extinction of the species will not come from there.

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It’s PRIDE month, love others and love yourself as you are: human beings who are entitled to all the happiness in the world!

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