I read your column most everyday.
Thanks for all the wonderful things you do for us.
I am half of an international gay marriage.
My husband is paranoid about anyone from his home country knowing he is gay.
I was just talking to another young, gay man whom we know from Skopje, Macedonia, my husband’s country.
This link will show you what gay pride is all about in repressed countries. This is what those whom you write about would have it be here and everywhere if they had their way with things.
http://www.skopjeinfo.mk/admin/upload/images/lgbt.jpg
This next link is to the newspapers where that picture appeared.
http://www.time.mk/cluster/5f6872e178/mala-parada-kako-najava-za-aktiviranje-na-gej-lobito-vo-skopje.html
This photo was taken by a new organization in Macedonia that calls itself LGBT United. They said, “We are here. We exist.”
That photo was taken in the city square, the center of Skopje, Macedonia’s capital city, below the statue of Alexander the Great. I have stood right where that picture was taken.
I don’t read Macedonian Cyrillic but I can tell you that the comments for this article are very homophobic. One of them suggests that the 6 participants in the photo should be reduced to soap, but the writer of that comment goes on to suggest that the soap would only then be used to wash his feet.
The signs in the photo read: Transgender person, gay, transgender person, lesbian, gay, lesbian.

Since you post all pride announcements I thought you would like to know what it looks like in a repressed country.

We are in the US now. For the moment we are safe. We are waiting out DOMA.

Have a great day.
Ask us anything.
Tom

In other words, she was the Cher of the nineteenth century.

TRiG.