The religion-driven homophobes are threatening with widespread violence if the parade takes place as planned.
There are several voices calling on the Gay-Lesbian community to cancel the parade because of the violence threats. I suggest that instead of, or in addition to, the parade, an attempt be made to collect and publicize statistics about lives, which were ruined due to homophobia – demonstrating that such a parade is still essential:
- How many youths, in the age of army service, commit suicide each year because they found that they have unacceptable sexual orientation?
- How many teenagers are thrown out of their homes each year into the streets because they are homosexual and their parents are homophobes?
When the newspapers will routinely write about homosexuals, who were thrown out of their homes by their homophobe parents or committed suicide, the way they (the newspapers) write today about beaten women and women, who were murdered by their husbands, provocative parades might be unnecessary.