Gay Rights or, UN, I Am Disappoint.

Article here-ish.

So, bizarrely, and worryingly enough, the UN have decided that being anything in the GBLT rainbow (the phrase you love to hate) is now punishable by death. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. What they've actually done is thrown out a bill saying that it's not okay to execute someone for being GBLT.
This is a Bad Thing, and should be recognised universally as such. Really.
I mean, what the fuck. When did this happen? When did this action become okay?
It's essentially along the same lines and justification as if you executed someone because of their creed or colour- it's not a choice, or a 'life decision'. Who the hell would choose to be something that faces so much prosecution, even in the world today? It's like the atrocities carried out against such people in the past (and we're talking proper people, with faces, like Alan Turing and Oscar Wilde) just never happened.
I mean, I'm lucky, I'm a middle-class white girl with a good education, and I'm straight. I'm pretty much safe from any gay-hate, right? Wrong. My best friend, the one who means the world to me, is gay. About fifty per cent, maybe more, of my friends identify somewhere on the GBL scale. The thought that I could lose them to something like this makes my blood run cold. It's not fair. If nothing else, it raises the question 'can you be executed for the crime of being straight?'- I mean, it's the same sort of thing right? If you can be executed for your gender identity or sexuality, who says it has to be a queer gender identity or sexuality? My 'safe' identity as a straight female could be as unsafe as my bestie's identity as a gay male.
So what can we do?
Fight. We can fight. While it is unlikely that in my tiny corner of the world, this law is going to become a problem (NZ was the first country in the world to legalise gay marriage and gay adoption) we still need to show support for queer people in other countries where it is likely to become a problem. It feels like one step forward two steps back, and it's not fair.

In other news, I started to knit a jumper. Hopefully it won't be completely fail.