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Hello everyone.
On today's page I need to let off some steam....
I don't know if you know this, but last Saturday in Spain, 12 people killed a 24 year old boy called Samuel for being gay....
I have never been so affected by such an event until now.... Every time I read or hear about it my guts churn, I feel fear, rage, disgust and pain. I feel disgust for the pirouettes that the media and many people are doing to try to remove the label of homophobic crime, especially in the face of the wave of attacks that have been happening lately...
If it had been a woman and they had shouted "whore" at her, no one would doubt that it was a sexist crime. Or if it had been a racialized person and they had shouted at him as a fucking nigger or a fucking Moor, there would be no denying that it was a racist crime... or maybe there is, because this country is rotten.
I don't know if you have read the testimonies of Samuel's friends who were with him when he was killed. I have, and it is heartbreaking. And the worst thing is that nothing happened for him to end up like that.
That's what scares me the most. Samuel could have been me. Or one of my friends, or anyone else.
Because it's clear that they didn't kill him for being gay, they killed him for looking gay. Because maybe Samuel had a feather, or he wore painted nails, or made affectionate gestures with a man, or a thousand things... Because being gay, or being part of the LGTBI+ collective is not bad as long as you don't show it. When you are noticed, people feel they have the right to point fingers, insult, attack, etc.
I was less than 10 years old when I received my first insult. When I didn't even know my sexual orientation.
And I've had enough of it. They took away our childhood, our adolescence, and now our life.
Justice for Samuel.
On today's page I need to let off some steam....
I don't know if you know this, but last Saturday in Spain, 12 people killed a 24 year old boy called Samuel for being gay....
I have never been so affected by such an event until now.... Every time I read or hear about it my guts churn, I feel fear, rage, disgust and pain. I feel disgust for the pirouettes that the media and many people are doing to try to remove the label of homophobic crime, especially in the face of the wave of attacks that have been happening lately...
If it had been a woman and they had shouted "whore" at her, no one would doubt that it was a sexist crime. Or if it had been a racialized person and they had shouted at him as a fucking nigger or a fucking Moor, there would be no denying that it was a racist crime... or maybe there is, because this country is rotten.
I don't know if you have read the testimonies of Samuel's friends who were with him when he was killed. I have, and it is heartbreaking. And the worst thing is that nothing happened for him to end up like that.
That's what scares me the most. Samuel could have been me. Or one of my friends, or anyone else.
Because it's clear that they didn't kill him for being gay, they killed him for looking gay. Because maybe Samuel had a feather, or he wore painted nails, or made affectionate gestures with a man, or a thousand things... Because being gay, or being part of the LGTBI+ collective is not bad as long as you don't show it. When you are noticed, people feel they have the right to point fingers, insult, attack, etc.
I was less than 10 years old when I received my first insult. When I didn't even know my sexual orientation.
And I've had enough of it. They took away our childhood, our adolescence, and now our life.
Justice for Samuel.
