Activists for equal rights

I have to admit that I don`t use to talk very often about equal rights because I don`t feel like I could change something about the equal rights, these equal rights being relative. But I do agree upon the fact that we owe the life we are living today to those people who stood up and faught for equal rights and anti discrimination. They are indeed modern heroes that sacrificed their lives for us to have a better life than theirs.

Although nowadays in many countries there is no such thing as equal rights and there is nothing likely to change in the next 10 years or so, whether if we`re talking about equality between genders or religion or equal rights when it comes to gay couples, lesbian and transsexual couples. The world has changed a lot for the past five decades, and we can see that because in many countries there were legalized the same gender marriages, which was practically the hardest step to be made for equal rights.

What equal rights are we actually talking about? We are talking about those rights of kissing the one you love in the middle of the street if that`s what you feel like doing in that particular moment, or go to a church holding hands without worrying about what will the old ladies say about you. Rights should be equal for everybody, regardless of those things that make us so different from the others. Even animals have equal rights, why shouldn`t we deserve the same? I find it odd and annoying that in some countries transsexuals and homosexuals are punished by the death penalty just for  being  themselves.

As you know, many of the LGBT equal rights activists were murdered brutally because they tried to make people understand that there`s nothing wrong in having a different orientation, as long as we do not harm anybody by doing so. There are also many famous stars that agree upon the equal rights such as Lady GaGa, Janet Jackson and many others. Basically, open-minded people that do not live their life according to The Bible neither do they persuade others to do so.

Imagine what sort of life would we live today if there wasn`t for those courageous men that dared to change many points of view and preconceptions regarding the LGBT community and equal rights. Probably we were arrested if there was even a single suspicion about our orientation, without even being given the chance to explain.

Harvey Milk was, for instance, one of the most known equal rights activists that managed to change something in NYC in 1976, although he was murdered after he did so. Moreover, there are transwomen that are activists for equal rights such as  Calpernia Addams or Jenny Bailey (the first transsexual mayor to serve Great Britain), women who helped the LGBT community to be seen with  totally different eyes by the heterosexuals and deserve our respect and appreciation.

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