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Homophobia is damaging people’s health and careers across Europe and the problem may be worse than reported because victims are scared to draw attention to themselves for fear of a backlash.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has reported that police in most countries were incapable of dealing with homophobic crime — ranging from verbal abuse to deadly attacks — and said many governments and schools failed to take it seriously enough.
To counter this, and to coincide with the publicity around tomorrow’s G20 summit, the Government has declared that tomorrow will be “Hug A Homo Day”.
Everybody is being asked to hug a homo at least once tomorrow to show their solidarity with the gay, lesbian and trans-gender community.
So off you go folks and get those hugs going and please tell us how many homos you hugged tomorrow.
How condescending would that be to have some random person come up and hug you just for being gay. I think politically correctness has turned people into lunatics.
If I was gay the last thing I would want is some raving hetro to come and hug me. Infact irrespective of my sexual identity I so wouldn’t want anyone to hug me randomly. Oooh what an invasion of personal space. Yuk.
I live near Brighton…..that’s a lotta hugging…..
What a good way to start a new month……. :wink: :lol:
Apparently you only need to hug one homo each tomorrow Jen-Jen – not all the homos in Brighton., although I must admit you’d be a bit spoilt for choice.
The organisers say that it’s symbolic and a show of ‘solidarity’ with the ‘GLTG’ community so to answer Melody’s point – hugging a homo doesn’t imply condecencion or patronisation, simply public (or even pubic) acceptance of their lifestyle choice.
Anyway hugging a homo tomorrow is probably going to be more productive than a street demo against the G20 meeting. Better to prance down Piccadilly kissing queens than chucking bricks at The Queen.
So who is up for it then?
Sorry it’s the 1st of the month, I’ll be busy stock-taking my collection of flying albino pigs – will think of everyone who embraces the concept and grabs the bull by the horns though :-
@forumhostpb wrote:
Homophobia is damaging people’s health and careers across Europe and the problem may be worse than reported because victims are scared to draw attention to themselves for fear of a backlash.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has reported that police in most countries were incapable of dealing with homophobic crime — ranging from verbal abuse to deadly attacks — and said many governments and schools failed to take it seriously enough.
To counter this, and to coincide with the publicity around tomorrow’s G20 summit, the Government has declared that tomorrow will be “Hug A Homo Day”.
Everybody is being asked to hug a homo at least once tomorrow to show their solidarity with the gay, lesbian and trans-gender community.
So off you go folks and get those hugs going and please tell us how many homos you hugged tomorrow.
Hug A Homo?.. lol – So, do you walk around asking people if they’re Gay, and if so, give them a big hug, regardless of where you are?..
This should be fun.. PB – Gis a hug.. :lol:
*hugs jd1 *
TicTax, gis a hug.. :lol:
April Fool’s or not, surely a gay person being randomly hugged could report the hugger for harrassment or assault.
I don’t know any gay people, but I might see if I can find some nice lesbians (fems, not butch, please) to hug!!!
Or is this PB April Fools post ??
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