les voix: For/Getting｜Re/Membering

As ‘black is beautiful’, ‘gay is great’ too.

In some cities, a Pride parade is a carnival. It’s a party demonstrating diversity of sexes, celebrating triumph of equality, and cheering acceptance from the societies.

But in many other places in the world, a Pride parade means more to the participants, when they are yet to be tolerated and embraced. The Pride risks being persecuted and blackmailed, and to somewhat extent, it can confront huge disapproval, by means of violence and humiliation.

For people who are luckier, whereas there are no one the luckiest when this world is not a perfectly LGBTI-friendly one yet, can really be proud of themselves and start up a plan for the future pursuing the life they’d been hoping for since they were kids.

But for many others who are not fortunate at all, they are still on the path seeking for being loved, understood, and probably ‘forgiven’. More than anything to do with ‘pride’, it’s still a fight for ‘dignity’ and ‘safety’, something called by people as justice that they are desperately hungry to have it more than imagine it.