This is a video of the candlelight march and reception at the Melrose to remember LGBT victims of the Holocaust. The march was held on Jan. 27. The march was held to bring awareness to the proposed Uganda genocide law that targets LGBT people and their friends and families.
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While the proposed Ugandan genocide law is unacceptable, where is the outrage over the ongoing LGBT genocide that is taking place in Iraq and other muslim countires? I heard nor saw anything about this at the Equality March. Words and posing are doing nothing to stop the ongoing genocide of LGBT citizens in Iraq. Equality March needs to take a lesson from Scott Long and Rasha Moumneh of Human Rights Watch. They offered direct aid to gays in Iraq by paying for plane tickets to fly them out of Iraq and thereby saving them. Saving them from the real ongoing pogram and genocide in Iraq. See THE HUNTED by Matt McAllister in the October 4 2009 issue of The New York magazine for more on their heroic efforts. Marches are nice and symbolic, but in the end what do they accomplish?
Aslo read GAY RESCUE-SAVING IRAQI HOMOSEXUALS by Katherine Mangu-Ward in the February 2010 issue of Reason magazine to get an overview of the heroic efforts of Scott Long and Rasha Moumneh. Efforst saving Iraqi LGBT members from a genocide that is real and on going, not “proposed”.
If you want to support Iraqi gays this group is doing heroic work https://iraqilgbtuk.blogspot.com/
The primary goal of last month’s event was to commemorate international holocaust day of remembrance and to acknowledge the gay and lesbian victims of the holocaust. We decided to incorporate recent examples of LGBT persecution to show that the war is not over and what happened over 60 years ago in Europe can happen again anywhere. I totally agree that Uganda is not the only country persecuting LGBT’s and if you had been a part of this event, you would know that our event talked about all forms of violence against us. The march was meant to remember the past, acknowledge the present, and make plans for the future. It was also meant to bring visibility to this issue to a large portion of our community that don’t even know that gays were in concentration camps or that Uganda is a country in Africa. Based on those personal goals, I think we accomplished what we wanted. So, I have a question for you. If nice symbolic marches are not accomplishing anything, what does reading magazine issues about genocide accomplish?
Now that I’ve gotten the cattiness about of the way (because I do take any criticism of our intentions personally), I can read your post again and take away the info that was provided. Our organization is trying to find ways that we can actively help from the states and any info is appreciated.