Almost Human

The human condition has always been something very straightforward to me, you are born, you grow up, you make something of yourself, you find your niche, find a person to love you for who you are and move from there.

But that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case in some countries or to be more specific for the LGTB community. If you dare love the "wrong" gender, depending on where you had the fortune -or misfortune in some cases- to be born at, you may have it easy or difficult, all influenced by the specific social surrounding you may have to endure.

I've always welcomed the Olympics and Eurovision -the latter more regularly as it happens every year- with both happiness and expectation; I love being a witness of how countries set aside their differences to work on a common goal, this being sports or music, showing that for the right purpose, we can function as a collective to represent mankind and how varied and complex it is.

This sadly is not the case of the Russian winter Olympics in the coming year, and needless to say it wouldn't be the first time a group of countries boycott the Olympic games, but I firmly stand on the belief these games need to be moved to a more congenial location to the spirit of the games hosted. A petition initiated by George Takei to move the games from Sochi to Vancouver is gathering steam and strength and more than 75000 people have already signed it.

With sponsor deals and 51 billion already spent on these games, it'd be a good lesson for the country and the government to learn the difference between enforcing laws -despite how we may feel as a collective on the topic- and using such laws as an excuse to treat a group of people as nothing but anything next to human, enabling hate, torture and public humiliation to be forced, while the rest of the world watches, just because you were born loving the "wrong" gender and in the wrong country.

It is time for us to take actions into our own hands and sign the petition

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Thanks to you...

"Understanding and Healing Homosexuality, someone you know needs this book" 2 of the 3 companies selling this book on their websites and and shelves have uncatalogued it and published public apologies on their Facebook  pages and twitter  feeds.

Both companies have stated that they are simple exercising their right to sell anything that is legally qualified as "book", published and recognized as such, not exactly sharing the views or opinions expressed by the author; nevertheless, the book is no longer available on either shop anywhere in Spain or online.

Amazon Spain however has not uncatalogued it yet, despite the fact that over 33000 petitions have been signed over the last 24 hours, showing that when people voice their discontent and act together, change is possible. On behalf of  Fran Ferri -the person who started promoting this initiative-, myself and all of those who shared the link so people could become aware and act on it, many thanks.

"Comprender y Sanar la homosexualidad, alguien que tu conoces necesita este libro" 2 de las 3 compañias, vendiendo y/o promoviendo el libro en España, ya sea en sus tiendas online ó en mostradores, han descatalogado el citado libro y publicado disculpas publicas en sus páginas de Facebook  & twitter .

Ambas compañias han mencionado en dichos comunicados, a modo de disculpa, que sólo ejercitan su derecho a vender y promover cualiquier libro catalogado legalmente como tal, compartan ó no, las opiniones expresadas por el autor en el mismo; sin embargo, el hecho está en que dicho libro a sido retirado rápidamente por ambas compañias y ya no está disponible en ningún sitio en España o en sus tiendas online.


Amazon España aún no a descatalogado el libro, y sigue disponible -a pesar del hecho de que se han recogido alrededor de 33 mil firmas en menos de 24 horas-, demonstrando una vez más de que el cambio es posible, cuando la gente se organiza y muestra su descontento de forma pública. En nombre de Fran Ferri -promotor de esta iniciativa- y de todos aquellos que nos involucramos directamente para hacer conocer este hecho, muchas gracias.


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Homosexuality is a disease...

This is according to Richard Cohen, now I see how he'd have "some" market in the USA and some american countries -I am American, on the exile but American, so I am not being mean just a realist- where Christians and the extreme right have a lot of weight and market to pull from and make yourself a career out of "counseling", but in European Countries, specially one like Spain where equality has been achieved ages ago and homosexuality normalized, having 3 main stores selling one of his books is simple unacceptable, since in my opinion sends the wrong message.

I encourage you all, in Spain or not to sign the petition to get this book off the shelves in Spain -It's added on the left side of this article for your convenience. People can make a change, and telling new generations that homosexuality is a disease that can be cured through counselling, it's just wrong.

Según Richard Cohen, la homosexualidad puede ser curada, veo como esto puede de tener algo de mercado y seguidores en Estados Unidos -lo siento pero es así, la derecha y los extremistas son muchos más que en Europa-, y hacer que el tenga un base suficiente como para que esta persona haga carrera "aconsejando" a otros, pero en España, donde la homosexualidad goza de igualdad de derechos, el hecho de que tres grandes superficies comercialicen el libro es simplemente inadmisible.


Exhorto a todos los lectores, Españoles o no, a firmar la petición para la retirada de este libro en España -El widget está añadido a la derecha del artículo para vuestra conveniencia. El cambio es posible, muchas sociedades así lo han demostrado, y decirles a estas alturas a las nuevas generaciones que la homosexualidad es una enfermedad que puede ser curada, está muy mal.


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