Disclaimers:
1) This is an archived post, this was written by me in the past, and is now to be re-published here.
1) This is an archived post, this was written by me in the past, and is now to be re-published here.
2) This is a translated post, the work was originally written in English, then translated and further augmented in German to arrive at it's finalized state. For this Blog the Speech's final version has been retranslated into English.
This is the Transcript of a Speech I held at the International Day Against Homophobe, Intersexphobia and Transphobia 2016 in Darmstadt.
Hello friends, and welcome to the IDAHIT 2016 in Darmstadt. I am
infinitely thankful that you are all here and allowed me to speak
here today, can't tell you how glad I am to be here in Darmstadt.
I've always seen your Pride Events as so great that I wanted to
recreate them in Frankfurt. It's always great being here.
We now have the year 2016 and throughout the world
we can see the fruit of our labor, same sex marriage has been opened
in Ireland and the United States of America, and while we haven't
reached that goal in Germany yet, we have instead increased awareness
for our cause. These days, everyone knows at least one person who is
gay or trans.
But there is an ugly side to 2016 as well, many famous people died.
But it's not them that break my heart, seeing as they are far away
and not close to my heart. After all, I've never known them
personally.
Much closer to my heart, earlier this year one of my best friends
died. Whether it was an accident or a suicide I don't know, but it
breaks me to think of the latter [2020 Notes, it was a suicide].
Didn't it get better? Even the name of this event changes every year.
First it was the IDAHO, then the IDAHOT and now it's the IDAHIT. We
get to know each other, starting to understand and work together. We
are in this together, “It gets better” right?
