There for You (When the Rain Starts to Pour)

You know sometimes you just get the feeling that you have the most awesome friends in the world? Well I do. My friends do awesome things. They write books, change politics, help others, create art and fashion. They are great journalists, unbeatable entertainers and superb PR wizards. Many people will find them annoying because they question things and demand a change. And I’m really proud of them.

I recently interviewed my friend David for a new Finnish paper called NHL. The article is about tackling homophobia in schools by educating kids about LGBT history: its heroes and heroines, the people who have made the British culture what it is today but have either had their identity written out of the history books because their sexuality wasn’t acceptable, or who have been written out all together.

Besides being a teacher, David is also the founder of A Day in Hand campaign that aims to inspire same sex couples to hold hands in public. The campaign is inclusive: anyone, straight or gay, can support the campaign by holding hands with  someone of their same gender and uploading the picture on A Day in Hand website. It’s so simple. To promote love and equality through the innocent act of holding hands.

But it takes a lot of work to get these great things to happen. To organise campaigns and events, lobby politicians, donate your time, create videos, blogs and articles and collect signatures. It takes passion. And I’m so proud to say I know many people with passion. As they are the people that will change the world.   

Read more about tackling homophobia through education from the November issue of Normihomolehti (NHL), out this weekend.

Support A Day in Hand campaign and upload your hand holding photo on the campaign website. Nominate A Day in Hand in the 2011 Pink Paper Awards.   

http://www.adayinhand.com/

The Evil Has Landed

So the most evil (looking) man in the world has entered this island. As a woman and human, I’m absolutely appalled that my tax money is being wasted in his visit when he really should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. We don’t see the UK government bending over backwards to please other hate clerics, do we? If Catholics want him here so badly, why doesn't Vatican foot the bill for his visit? 

And just to make matter worse, on the eve of Pope's visit, one of his cardinals compared Britain to a third-world country blaming it for secularism and pluralism and stating that the UK is marked by "a new and aggressive atheism". 

Pope himself reminded us of his that his love indeed has got boundaries just two days before his visit by claiming that gay marriage laws “contribute to the weakening of the principles of natural law” and to “confusion about society’s values.” He is known to believe that all gay people possess a tendency towards evil.

Read the anti-pope  letter by signed by 50 public figures from the Guardian website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion

If you’d like to join the anti-pope demonstrations:

http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/category/events/upcoming/

You evil little man....