Heteronormative

I have a new favorite word and I've been using it in a sentence many time since it was introduced to me on Saturday. And I can feel the preacher in me awakening so if you do not wanna hear, well read me rant, you are welcome to exit any time!

A New York State senator Carl Kruger who opposed the bill to introduce gay marriage in NYS 2009 has been outed as a gay man. What's even worse is that he's a democrat, NOT a republican. But it's also true that the biggest homophobes sometimes are gay themselves and their self loathing is so strong that they oppose their own rights. As a big opponent of (the finnish parties) "christian democrats" and "perus suomalaiset" (loosely translated into basic finns) and having done the online election polls and getting representatives from both of those parties as my top candidates, I have to wonder if secretly deep down I'm really a christian democrat and persu all wrapped in one! The reason I'm so appalled by this is because the leader of CD's is a known gay rights opponent and very polarizing figure Päivi Räsänen, whom I've mentioned many times on my posts and don't think I need to mention again, except for a funny little thing later on. Perussuomalaiset are against immigration, they think that Finland should take even less immigrants and evacuees and that they come here to live on our social security. I have not researched their foreign, economic or other policies because those 2 reasons are strong enough for me to NEVER vote for either party. But I gotta wonder if really deep down I am christian and hate foreign people? And what's worse, should I join a congregation???

Now for the funny little story about PR. This might not even be all that funny in English but the Finns will get it. It was brought to my attention on Sunday that PR had written a post on her blog where she stated that according to the Nature agency of Finland year 2011 is the year of Lepakko (in English a bat) which lesbians are sometimes called. And that the protection of bats/lepakko's should be increased, information on them should be made more available and prejudice against them should be decreased. And she ended it all with "How will you celebrate the year of Lepakko?" So if we follow the logic from the previous chapter, does this mean that PR is actually either "Lepakko" herself or that she actually is on our side even though she says otherwise in public????? Here's the link for her blog

http://www.paivirasanen.fi/ajankohtaista/17-blogit/376-lepakoiden-vapaaehtoisten-lottien-metsien-kemian-ja-afrikkalaisen-alkuperaen-juhlavuosi

So this past weekend I received my training to become a volunteer trainer for SETA so that I can go to schools etc and talk about SETA, it's purpose and about being gay. We were taught what to say, what not to say, which topics to talk about etc. It was probably one of the most amazing weekends I've ever had. Certainly the best since coming back to Finland. I felt so at home, so at peace, so at ease and so energized! There were 12 of a us trainees, the trainer, the youth coordinator from Seta and the social secretary for Seta Tampere, our host organization for the weekend. It felt so good to talk to and be around "my people" which I've totally missed since coming back. I never had a community here before I moved to USA and my community there is also Tiffany's community. We either met people together or they were hers to begin with. It is very difficult to talk to people who I know are friends with Tiffany too. So at least I have my own community and contacts now! They understand me the way only a fellow gaymo can! Now lets get training!!!

And the great thing about this weekend was also that I got to spend some quality time with Sir Edward the cat since I spend the night at Saara's. Thank you once again for the place to stay and for my cat therapy!

Oh yeah...my "drunk with power" moment about having a car is fading...it's still nice but DAMN that gas is expensive! After 2 weeks I'm down over 100 euros! Cheaper than taking the bus but still! Anyway... it gets better as they say and things are looking up!

Later!