Wednesday 26 September
2007
My work "Some of Us" remembers the gay men (and womyn) who suffered and perished simply for what they were or stood for in history.
"Before the beginning of World War II, the homosexual people in Germany, especially in Berlin, enjoyed more freedom and acceptance than anywhere else in the world. However, upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of several groups targeted by the Nazi Party and were ultimately among the roster of Holocaust victims."
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"Texas investigators are trying to determine whether seven unsolved murders of gay men going back five years are related, The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday."
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"Attacks on homosexuals and intolerance of homosexual practices have long existed, yet they have escalated in the past year," says the latest bi-monthly Human Rights Report of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), released on January 16. "Islamic groups and militias have been known to be particularly hostile towards homosexuals, frequently and openly engaging in violent campaigns against them. There have been a number of assassinations of homosexuals in Iraq."
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"34% of men responding and 23% of women responding had experienced violence because they were gay, lesbian or bisexual. 18% of male respondents, and 10% of female respondents, had been "hit, punched or kicked". 10% of male respondents, and 4% of female respondents, had been "beaten up". 5% of men, and 2% of women, had been "assaulted with a weapon."
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There are more than ONE MILLION references to gay killings on the Internet when the word "gay killings" is typed into the Google search-engine.
Indigo Boy, Wednesday 26 September, Cape Town
Poem inspired by this work:
Indigo Aspirations
Some of us were saved
But most of us drowned
While reaching for high stakes
As they trampled us down
Trodden beneath the surface
By their ambitions and hidden desires
Speak to me my shadow
Hidden within my true self
Reveal my buried dreams
Defeated by living nightmares
Trying to mask my true nature
Behind a breathing facade
by Sisinyana Manong, uploaded 07 February 2008.
www.chrisdiedericks.co.za/indigoboy/
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2006/7
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