"If you want to be of a certain sexual orientation, and it does not harm anybody, you are entitled to..."

"

If you want to be of a certain sexual orientation, and it does not harm anybody, you are entitled to your individual choice, and it you want to celebrate it in a low-profile event, I don't see why not.



But it becomes a sensitive issue when it becomes a large-scale festival running for days, because it would provoke many people.



The voices of the minority should be respected, but the views of the majority need to be respected too.

"

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Chua Soi Lek, MCA President, psychiatrist, and former Malaysian Minister of Health; a reaction to the banning of Seksualiti Merdeka (Independent Sexuality).


Did you choose to be Chinese-Malaysian, Datuk Seri? To be male? To have two thumbs? To be straight? The GLBT* community didn't have that choice either. Like you, they simply are who they are. And when the majority is out to harm and oppress the minority, we have a problem.


(via maybethings)


Well earn yo goddamn respect, majority, because you sure as fuck don't deserve it right now, silencing the minority like that.


Shit, nobody gives a fuck when Chinese companies take two weeks off for CNY. 


(via jhameia)





God dammit. "A sensitive issue."


What bullshit.

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