In the 21st century, several nations around the world cry out for tolerance and the creation of legal spaces to ensure the "inclusion" of minorities, thus ending the possibility that at least in the legal framework the existance of second-class citizens.
When I heard what happened during last month in Choroní, Aragua state, where a group of gay men were attacked by representatives of a local community council, in addition with intimidation and coercion by the state police, the news made me feel angry and excluded from the social fabric called Venezuela.
The struggle for gender rights and sexual orientation are culturally linked in Latin American societies by the ghost of the "machismo", monstrosity of a social nature that deprives of any leading role to all those people who do not possess a male reproductive organ or do not use it, for the systematic destruction of illusions to their female peers while mating.
Among the reasons for the Aragua police to intimidate and suppress the rights of the homosexuals who were vacationing at the resort, were indecency in public places and raising the rainbow flag with the word "peace" written in it. Both arguments seemed absurd as grounds to proceed.
The meaning of the rainbow flag used by the gay movement in favor of equal rights, comes from respect and love to diversity as source of inspiration to a more tolerant society. Value that has been echoed during the civil rights struggle of the african-american community, as well as the battle of feminism to occupy political spaces that rightfully belong to it.
Venezuela's future should be built on solid foundations with tolerance and diversity as cornerstone values and let morality being dictated by the individual conscience of each of us. Vindications in the field of equal rights by nations like Argentina and Uruguay in the discussion of defining marriage, are examples to follow if you really believe in a better “inclusive” world.
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