a light overseas

My fel­low LGBTQ broth­ers and sis­ters will un­der­stand how pro­found it was, Wednes­day, in In­dia, and abroad, to hear and read these words

“I’m il­le­gal no more, I’m in the shad­ows no more. I’m in the dark­ness no more.”

—Ke­shav Suri, gay In­di­an cit­i­zen upon his country’s Supreme Court abol­ish­ing the 157 year left-over law from the British Raj of em­pire and colo­nial­ism, 5 Sep­tem­ber 2018. 

These quot­ed words struck at my heart with a joy­ful lump in the throat and tears threat­en­ing to break the dam.

Agreed, yet I would add our strug­gles have been mega-gen­er­a­tional and we have to be aware that there will be strug­gles AL­WAYS as long as there are big­ots in this world of humans. 

The laws with­in some parts of the planet’s hu­man so­ci­eties have changed for the bet­ter, yet many parts still have our LGBTQ broth­ers and sis­ters ‘in the dark.’ 

I just cel­e­brate the mo­ments of gain and aware­ness. Wednes­day was one of our days where it ‘got bet­ter.’ Our younger kin­dred spir­its who are im­mersed in their forms of dark­ness, pos­si­bly con­sid­er­ing to snuff out their own light, maybe need these rays of hope and light understanding

“it does get better!”

(in­sert im­ages of wav­ing rain­bow flags and confetti!)
 
 

—eric ward

Flom­mist Eric Ward is a Hu­man Los An­geli­no (there are oth­er kinds), hu­man­ist, artist, in­dus­tri­al and graph­ic de­sign­er, nov­el­ist, toy in­ven­tor and en­tre­pre­neur. Life-long pur­suit is “What to do with a piece of pa­per?” Copy­right © 2018 Eric Ward. Im­age source.

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