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Let The Red-Faced Blustering Begin
The question is posed every year: why do we have demonstrations for Gay Rights – in all their facets – when Gays have already been granted the vote, can marry, have equal rights, health care, job security just the same as normal people? As a subsidiary question, from certain quarters, comes the question of why there is not a White Male Day each year, and whether this lack is somehow sexist. For most thinking people, the answers to all such questions are very clear indeed, they just need to be reiterated every single year for the hard of understanding at the back. Last month I attended the Christopher Street Day…
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A Remembrance of Times Past
I was faced, yesterday, with a typical teenager question, one most will have heard at some stage, maybe even uttered themselves. What’s the point. What is the point of all that we do, all that we learn, every second of every day? Do we have a purpose, or a destiny written in, or by, the stars, by fate, by some Almighty entity hidden from view and only revealed to the True Believer? The question, though, came from my partner who, to be brutally honest, has not seen their own teenage years for several decades, and who was referring to my penchant for historical works and, in particular, updating a certain…
