Goodbye Johnnie - Shame Australia Shame
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I have recently been taken up by watching the reality TV show Big Brother and have been following the very first openly gay male on Australian prime timeTV . Last night Johnnie the gay male was voted off by 70% of the general public. Now it doesn't faze me so much that Johnnie was voted off because people liked someone else. What has really got to me is the amoount of anti gay and homophobic remarks and attitudes that have flowed freely all over Australia. The voting recorded the largest ever number of votes for a big brother eviction - over 200,000 in total.
The fact that Johnnie was gay and was open about his sexuality meant that he became the very first person in Australian Tv to show what being gay was all about. The vitrolic attacks by the right wing bigots, reliogous organisations and plainly simple minded Australians has reminded me just how little real progress has been made in gaining acceptance for being gay or lesbian.
Some of the comments of the Big Brother Message Board have totally astounded me, with some people saying things like Thank God the Fag's Gone, and Homosexuality is against God etc etc. One particular bigoted poster said that Australia shoould now do a door knocking campaign to pay for all the fags to be given an island and piss off and let normal people get on with their lives.
This particular individual also went on to say that he is sickened by gays showing affection in public as he and his wife do not do so. This makes my blood boil and gets me really angry. Why should I or any gay person be made to fell as though we can't walk down a street holding hands with oour partner withoout fear of retribution - and violent retribution at that? I challenge any of these bigots to living in our community where we don't have equality in relationships or equality in freedom of expression to show me how we fluant our sexuality by doing the things that every straight couple takes for granted every day?
Many of the bone fide religious organisations usrged their parishioners and supporters to vote Johnnie out because he does not stand for normalacy in our society because he is gay.
Tell these bigots to stop spreading hate and directly causing the sorts of homphobic viloent attcaks on members of our community. And to Channel 10 the network showing Big Brother for inciting the homophobic attitudes towards Johnnie and the gay and lesbian community for deliberately doing a number on Johnnie and showing him in a bad light.
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