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Gay is cool ...
and good for prestige and economic
year recall numerous Gay Pride to the respective " Christopher Street Days " in Germany and the world to the revolt of the gay society of 28 . June 1969 against the Polzeiwillkür in the bar Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village. At that time there have always been violent raids by state officials, held a preference in the gay bars and clubs.
was a result of this uprising is finally several days of street battles of the gay, lesbian and gay sympathizers of heterosexual society, directed against the human rights violating police.
Moscow backwardness fight
Brazil São Paulo presented itself again this year as the city of the world's largest Gay Pride with imaginative costumes and hot samba rhythms. Over five million people attended, among others, take precedence over the large protest banners against the intolerant part of the population while remembering the 2,800 homosexuals murdered in Brazil. Nikolai Alexeyev, the organizer of Moscow Gay Pride was surprised, not bad, and stated that as a party countries such as Russia and Poland, in the exercise of tolerance and acceptance of other societies and preferences but are still very backward, giving great hope.
better life
In Germany, the gay festival again demonstrated in 34 cities and celebrated extensively. Cologne still offers you the biggest gay parade, arrive to be about 1.4 million subscribers. However, cities such as Hamburg and Berlin, whose participants are the two gay mayor, Ole von Beust and Klaus Wowereit, in famous company go to big and prove the quality of life in German cities, characterized by its residents for acceptance and tolerance have made any form of life and society towards deserves.
Gay Index is an important economic factor
Richard Florida, economist of the United States of America, has found that cities represent a high proportion of gays, lesbians and other thinkers a particular quality characteristic. The so-called "gay index" is an important economic factor in the present and the future. Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, as well as Cologne and Hamburg in Germany, demonstrated a climate of openness and acceptance of dissent, in which creative and lateral thinkers feel at ease. Such people need a town to the post-industrial age, not to oversleep success and reality. Hans-Heinrich Blotevogel, urban geographer of Dortmund, said also:
"are not according to Richard Florida, gays, even the driving force, but the indicator of where socio-cultural diversity derives economic success for themselves."
Maybe just a sure sign as to why East Germany's "flourishing landscapes" can be a little longer in coming, with it, at least in West Germany are self-sufficient and self-confessed gay Nazis, whose political ideology-free tolerance but not quite to the specially for the that called itself tolerance seems to fit.
intolerance harms the economy in a sustainable
Cologne and Hamburg in Germany are in fact a proof of the correctness of the reasoning of Florida. They are considered as a constant magnet for aesthetes, artists of all stripes speak, creative and media professionals, while here the positive economic data their own language.
reactionaries, forever Yesterday, intolerant contemporaries are cumbersome and therefore hurt our progress, economic success and peaceful coexistence. As we can see from these circumstances, have acceptance and tolerance harmed anyone yet. They are even a guarantee for national and international success and the associated prestige, what we have now in our country yet so sorely needed.
Julien Germain
(Original publication: July 29, 2008)
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