I've always been a bit retro... For some reason, unknown to my conscious mind until then, I always identified with people or things that weren't necessarily from my generation. The fact is that the fagot was already vintage, my love, and I didn't even know it... You want to make me happy, it's easy, just give me a CD or DVD from Disco Music and I'll finish it off!
But beyond music and clothes, the 50s, 60s and 70s were marked by barbaric revolutions in the customs of Western society. The ruffle was so strong, my love, that the echoes of this period are heard to this day... Lady Gaga would never be such a monster and would set audiences on fire if it weren't for the bra-burning that took place in 1968, in protest against the of Miss America. Beyoncé would perhaps not be a successful black woman if it weren't for Rosa Parks refusing to get up from her seat on a bus to seduce a white man and for this reason being arrested in 1955. It is unlikely that Amy Winehouse would have been placed on stage if the hippies hadn't done it much earlier, taking the motto "sex, drugs and rock&roll" to its ultimate consequences...
OK! She had a nostalgic moment in the queue. And that?
It's not that. Because, unfortunately, I didn't live through that time. But I am lucky to live alongside countless people who faced the military dictatorship, hypocrisy, morality and good customs, to launch themselves into a new world, without prejudice, without war, without pain... A world where people They imagined that joy and freedom would take over power. Utopia? Yes. But they were transformative and intense moments that can still be seen in our time.
Today, however, I live disturbed. Our world seems so apathetic, so meaningless... So out of place! If war was once fought with love, today it is love that is fought with violence. We live in a time where intolerance, prejudice and violence prevail.
Fortunately, there is still a counter movement. Small but contagious. An action by people who want and will be able to change the world: their own and that of others. And that’s exactly how change happens…
I'm saying all this because of a campaign called #eusougay, which is running on Twitter and Facebook. It's incredible how the computer, which apparently distances people, has proven to be a powerful tool in bringing together people with the same purposes. And this – #eusougay – created by journalist Carol Almeida, is another one of these internet movements that has become a trend (pertussis was a slang term from the 80s).
Adriele Camacho de Almeida, 16 years old, who was found dead in Itarumã, Goiás, on the 6th. A 36-year-old man, Cláudio Roberto de Assis, and his two sons, one aged 17 and the other aged 13, were detained as suspected perpetrators of the crime. The reason? Pure homophobia! According to witnesses, the girl was dating the farmer's daughter and the relationship was not accepted. The police are still investigating the crime.
However, Carol had no doubts. Outraged by the crime, she launched the campaign on the internet. In it, the journalist invites everyone (gay or not) to take a photo with a poster, a sheet, a post-it or whatever is convenient with the following phrase: #eusougay, the same way it is done on Twitter. Photos must be sent to email projecteusougay@gmail.com. The photos will be used in a video montage edited by Daniel Ribeiro, director of the short film Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.
The project’s website address is: http://projetoeusougay.wordpress.com.
I already made my face, wrote it in handwriting and sent it… Because NO homophobia!
The message has been given… Kiss, kiss, kiss… I went!
