The war for justice and equality goes on
Many people of different sexualities have been led to believe for some time under the current government that we have achieved gay equality. We haven’t. Not only do gay men and women still run the risk of verbal and physical abuse on the street and in their families and neighbourhoods, but they are unable to simply hold hands when in public unless they are either in the back arse of beyond or happen to be walking down Compton Street in London’s Soho, where there is safety in numbers.
Legislatively, some—not all—of the battles have been won, but hearts and minds are far from universally free of bigotry and the inclination to stigmatise. The war is not over.
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We live in times that are, from one perspective, not particularly unique for all the technological veneer glossing over our daily existence. We are still flesh and blood, the same species that once lived in trees and went on to build stone circles, churches, shining office blocks. We have always had problems to overcome. But somewhere between the stone circles and the churches we started to lose our connection to the planet, and by the time the towers went up we’d altogether forgotten that we once lived in harmony with nature, and were intimately familiar with her rhythms.
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