Pink Dot
It was an amazing Saturday. I even got my picture in the newspaper. Look mom ... that's me!
An anonymous visitor to my blog posted "Poster Boy for Pink Dot?" to one of my entries. I'm tickled pink by that.
We've come a long way since the mid-90s when I set up Out Loud & Proud, a website about my coming-out. The intent was to give hope to asian people who were gay and in the closet. To let them know that it is OK to love another guy openly. To show your love for the world to see.
I would have never imagined in my 20s that I'd be participating in something so significant in 2009.
Just wanted to share these moving words:
"i just hope for greater awareness and less prejudice ... and everybody getting along and letting people love whoever they want to love" Selena Tan
"i hope that we become more open as a society and respect each other's needs to love and so we can all just live togehter in harmony" Pam Oei
"we are born alone, we go to our graves alone, but there is no reason why any of us should have to live alone in this life without love purely because of intolerance and judgement" Neo Swee Lin
And as Swee Lin quoted "Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi
See the pinkdot video taken on that day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9gDazG4cC0
The video encouraging people to come make pinkdot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdoT7opmrg
An anonymous visitor to my blog posted "Poster Boy for Pink Dot?" to one of my entries. I'm tickled pink by that.
We've come a long way since the mid-90s when I set up Out Loud & Proud, a website about my coming-out. The intent was to give hope to asian people who were gay and in the closet. To let them know that it is OK to love another guy openly. To show your love for the world to see.
I would have never imagined in my 20s that I'd be participating in something so significant in 2009.
Just wanted to share these moving words:
"i just hope for greater awareness and less prejudice ... and everybody getting along and letting people love whoever they want to love" Selena Tan
"i hope that we become more open as a society and respect each other's needs to love and so we can all just live togehter in harmony" Pam Oei
"we are born alone, we go to our graves alone, but there is no reason why any of us should have to live alone in this life without love purely because of intolerance and judgement" Neo Swee Lin
And as Swee Lin quoted "Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi
See the pinkdot video taken on that day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9gDazG4cC0
The video encouraging people to come make pinkdot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdoT7opmrg