Comments on: The last of the first: Axel Axgil

By: BlackDog

BlackDog — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:24:45 +0000

It’s always sad when someone dies, it’s the end of an era when any person who blazed the trail for others dies.

Barely knew a thing about the guy, none the less, I feel he deserves respect.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:58:11 +0000

Jim,

Absolutely spot on! The world is a very different place in such a tiny amount of time.

By: Jim Hlavac

Jim Hlavac — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:37:39 +0000

In our quest to come out everywhere, as this man suggested, it has always amazed me that few notice that the Gay Pride marches that now encompass the globe are the largest sustained series of political protest marches the world has ever seen. With millions of participants on every continent and growing; and all very grass roots, with no worldwide organizing committee, nor much in the way of press coverage, either. 40 years since one tiny riot in NYC, it has now spread to over 1000 annual peaceful, even festive, protests against political and social oppression in a 100 countries; more to come. Quite an amazing feat, eh? Precisely because we keep coming out. And the world has gotten so much better for us it is astounding, exactly as Mr. Axgil predicted. And all we do is demand the right to smooch in peace.

I dare say, some other protest movements might learn from us, and they figure out how we do it, for we have done far more to change the world than any other political protest could hope to imagine, ya think?

By: Lightning Baltimore

Lightning Baltimore — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:55:56 +0000

I wonder if NOM will come out swinging on this one? For goodness sake, their Registered Partnership lasted only six years? Yet more proof that homosexuals cannot maintain long term relationships! The fact that one of them died is unimportant.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:46:15 +0000

Thanks, Hélder, I’ve corrected the commentary.

By: Hélder António

Hélder António — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:34:26 +0000

Eigil Axgil passed away in 1995;
Axel Axgil died Saturday, October 29.

http://fougueusefugue.blogspot.com/2011/10/axel-axgil-1915-2011.html