Balance of a tragic year
EDITORIAL GAYLES.- Just a few hours ago we closed this article wishing that the last joke this year especially bloodthirsty, was to take the Princess Leia. But in a final carambola, it is not known whether from pride or compassion, the 2016 He has also taken his mother, Debbie Reynolds, victim of a stroke while preparing his daughter's funeral. We only have the consolation of imagining them both singing under a shower of stars while we swallow the grapes of a year full of anger. Go through them our tribute in these lines.
And is that it is difficult to find a qualifier that encompasses everything that has left us the year that ends. Surprising? Convulsed? Terrible? Unfair? There will be those who affirm that every day people die in the world, that in some corner of the planet a war is being waged and that the attacks, violence, populism or unspeakable aggressions and abuses are not patrimony of the year that ends. But there has been so much of all that, so many moments of clenching teeth with disbelief, so much absurd loss, unexpected, it costs not to fall into the topic of wanting it to end already, that the last sheet of the calendar takes away the fury of this time of tragedy that premiered by snatching us David Bowie the 10 of January. It was a warning of what would come next.
The world of music has been hit with a special viciousness, because Bowie they followed Prince, Juan Gabriel Someone so loved by the gay crowd! Leonard Cohen and to top (never better) has led to George Michael with only 53 years. Great musicians and in most cases icons LGTBI. Other losses have particularly hurt us, such as the trans activist Shangay Lily and especially the brutal murder of Hande Kader a girl of only 22 years that defended in Türkiye the right to be different.
We are aware that we are getting a somewhat dark chronicle, but is that you can not hide under the carpet facts like the killing of Orlando, the shooting with the highest number of victims in the history of U.S.. Because if it was terrible the night of the 12 of June in which Omar Mateen sowed the track of the gay nightclub Press of corpses, so much or more painful was reading the following month that the FBI did not believe that it had been an attack motivated by hatred of homosexuals. Of course, Omar happened to pass by there and shot himself up because he looks, I do not know, maybe boredom? Anyway.
That of course was not the only act of barbarism: a few days later the 14 of July a truck was abated on the crowd that watched the fireworks in Nice leaving almost a hundred corpses in its wake and just over a week ago, with the same method, a terrorist was thrown against the paraditas of a Christmas market in Berlin. Words abound, facts explain themselves.
And all this happens in a world that remains impassive in the face of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of recent times: the columns of refugees fleeing from the horror, the systematic and consensual massacre of civilians in Syria, the fields where desperation and stupor are crowded in the face of the lack of responses from the West. Everything very beautiful.
But the answer at the polls is not far behind, the advance of populism based on the fear of difference, the stranger, leaves us a trickle of painful results that has its maximum exponent in the triumph of Trump in the US presidential elections. His majesty "Don Dinero" will occupy the throne next January 20 and the rainbow flag that, unworthily, wave in the election campaign, should not confuse us: Trump said in the 2011 that he was absolutely against the unions between homosexuals. So to the parrot because in what topics is understood too well with Putin. What has been known to leave in time Fidel!
But not everything has been bad news, of course. Madrid since March with a Law of Transexuality and the last bastion of intolerance in Europe fell in May when it was approved in Italy Civil Liaison Law between people of the same sex. It could not be marriage because the Vatican It is very close and continues to suppose a huge brake on the aspirations of the collective LGTBI, but everything will walk and in the end, what better rude than that of two former nuns marrying. Oh, it feels!
We also loved being able to start talking about the sisters Wachoswski that left behind their masculine identities. And how not, we applaud the appearance of AEQUALIS, the first report published in Spain on the need for better practices in the management of LGBT diversity in companies and institutions, a huge step to improve the living conditions of many people.
And we live with hope the Olympics of Rio de Janeiro, the so-called olympics of normalization by the amount of gais y lesbians declared that participated ... Well, there would be much to question and we will not be all the time with negativity!
Effectively the 2016 also brought us good things and we hope that in a personal capacity they have been many for all of you, but in general terms we can only wish to take to the Princess Leia and destroying the dreams of millions of geeks throughout the galaxy was his last joke in bad taste. And yes, we could end up wishing that the force accompanies her, but we like her famous phrase much more referring to Chewbacca: "Can any one take me away from this doormat with paws?"
Try filling the 2017 good vibes, love and dreams, because easy they are not putting us. Be happy!
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