So yeah, stuff had me steaming mad this morning. But I’ve cooled down now, and partly because I read something that countered it with an example of a person fighting the good fight (and winning quite a bit, actually).
I could actually be mad that this isn’t front page news around the world, but screw that. I just want to celebrate the man: Leo Abse died this week, at the age of 91.
Who’s he? Go read about him at the Freethinker:
THE man who changed the world for the British gay community through his unstinting efforts to decriminalise homosexuality in the 1960s, died this week aged 91.
But Leo Abse, Labour MP for Pontypool from 1958 until his retirement at the age of 70 29 years later, was much more than just a gay rights champion. He was also the power behind a series of social reforms during the 1960s that included the end of criminal prosecutions for attempted suicide, the abolition of capital punishment, reforming divorce law, and the legalisation of abortion.
After you read the article, remember to raise a glass to the guy. The world is better off for having had him in it for a while.
