British Olympian Tom Daley posted a video on youtube this week speaking about his sexuality. In the laid back video post entitled "Something I want to say.." Tom revealed that he is currently dating a guy, is very happy, but still fancies girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJwJnoB9EKw
By not leveraging the mainstream media to make a big announcement and I'm sure a few quid, Tom has set what I believe is a really positive tone for future discussions. A person's sexuality should not be a big deal - the fact that it still is in 2013 is a sad reflection on the level of maturity within our society.
This week also saw Croatia, the newest member of the EU, hold a referendum on the nature of marriage. The result was a yes vote that enshrined the term marriage within the Croatian constitution as "the union between a man and a woman". The campaign for a yes vote was not suprisingly led by Croatian Catholic groups with strong support from the Roman Catholic Church.
These two events really highlighted for me the gulf that exists culturally today between Britian and many of our eastern EU partners. I'm not at all critical of the Croatian vote - they were merely exercising their democratic rights as citizens. However, surely they must have more important issues to attend to?
I do wonder when we'll actually stop as a society wasting so much energy on debating the sexuality of others and discriminating against others because of who they decide to shag or fall in love with? It's a complete diversion from the real problems that humanity faces on this planet.
Free love!
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