Proposed Substitute to the Planned Controversial Gay-Lesbian Parade in Jerusalem

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.

Author: Omer Zak

I am deaf since birth. I played with big computers which eat punched cards and spew out printouts since age 12. Ever since they became available, I work and play with desktop size computers which eat keyboard keypresses and spew out display pixels. Among other things, I developed software which helped the deaf in Israel use the telephone network, by means of home computers equipped with modems. Several years later, I developed Hebrew localizations for some cellular phones, which helped the deaf in Israel utilize the cellular phone networks. I am interested in entrepreneurship, Science Fiction and making the world more accessible to people with disabilities.