About the march, I want to say...] Orange: From Presence to Influence

Author: Orange ,21 October 2012

The first time I took to the streets to participate in a march was at the end of the 1980s, ostensibly to save the forests, but privately because the friend who dragged me to join the march was obsessed with Mr. Meng Dongli, and we walked from the Founding Father's Memorial Hall to the New Park without realizing it (nowadays, the march route is not as far as that), and we were so tired and thirsty that we were afraid of marches from that moment on.

For someone who has very little "athletic fiber", I'm not sure if a mild street demonstration can change public sector policy?

In Taiwan, it seems that only protest actions such as tying cloths and throwing eggs are favored by the media and gain bargaining chips.

After the turn of the millennium, Taipei began to host joyous gay parades, and the media was busy presenting what seemed like an imported exoticism, focusing on fancy clothes and beautiful bodies. It's not like the outside world hasn't seen the LGBT community before. A handful of people appear sporadically in the sad social news, but on this one day, a large group of people will appear to be in high spirits.

I have been lucky enough to survive in the prehistoric era of the Gay and Lesbian Rally, but I have never paid much attention to the Gay and Lesbian Rally, and I always feel that I have missed something. Perhaps it is not the Gay and Lesbian Rally itself, but the entire Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights Movement has lost its core power, and it seems that the Rally has been given an asymmetrical expectation.

Last year I was finally at the march, because of the words of the True Love Coalition, because of the influence of the new online community, and because of the anger. The media's uniform approach to reporting missed the reality of the people outside the camera. The experience of being there reminded me once again that there is a large gay community outside of the online world. Sometimes "visibility" is not about asking for attention, but about listening to your own heart.

However, we have to look over the shoulder of the march. There are more tasks to be done in dealing with the rest of the community, but the rest of the community may not necessarily come to join the LGBT march, and in order to gain the support of others, we have to either show our strength or show our contribution.

Fundraising is the root of all work, and the most important thing is to sustain the business. Nowadays, some non-government organizations are using donation barcodes to get electronic invoices from the public. We can apply for the LGBT donation barcodes to be made into bracelets and key rings, and they can be sold as charity items, which may be more profitable than T-shirts. We hope that someone can develop an APP/newsletter/newsletter for long term connection, similar to the concept of blood bank notification to notify the community in real time, so as to stabilize the flow of money.

Perhaps when the community's financial strength stabilizes, and with the support of friendly enterprises, we can consider promoting some public service activities and advertisements that the public can feel in the long run, in order to change social attitudes. I suddenly remembered the dilapidated houses along the Western Railway. Perhaps gay volunteers from all over the world can come to the houses to help organize and paint the walls, using white paint, which represents equality. Each section could be written into a story, made into a short movie, and combined to form the "Equality Line" that runs through Taiwan, which would be a very eye-catching and meaningful activity.

The theme of this year's march is marriage equality, and thanks to the Taiwan Couples' Rights Advocacy Coalition, who have done their homework in revising the bill. I really don't see anything that doesn't make sense, but we're going to see a lot of non-legalistic objections to the bill as it goes through the process of being enacted.

A democratic society is a headcount system. It requires patience to win the support of more people and change the attitude of society. I don't know how long it will take, but gay people have never disappeared and will never disappear. Our lives are as long as others', and to fight against injustice, we have to keep going from one baton to the next. I sincerely hope that by the next 10th anniversary of the Gay Pride March, the legalization of gay and lesbian couples will no longer be the issue of the year.

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