In 2006 I became Ms Gay Vancouver Island X, I did so with a determination to change the GLBT community for the better, I knew that in this age of easy solutions the pageant and title were more than a pretty tiara and sash, it was a responsibility to a whole community, one on the verge of dissolve:
The weeks following June 28th 1969 the world would be forced to change it's outward view of the Gay and Lesbian community due to an act of bravery known as the Stone Wall riots. Only little more than ten years after the original riots, in the early eighties, by our own ignorance and the ignorance of our global governments to take action, we allowed an epidemic to strike down our community and threaten the work, everything we had fought so hard to create. By 1989 AIDS had touched our communities on a global level, yet instead of simply allowing our communities to die we stood up, we fought, we took action, we educated and through adversity and grief we came together, survived and grew. We are again in danger this time not only by political oppression or increase in viral cases but by our own lack of education.
With so little positive education and so many options available online, without leaving your home, from impersonal ineffective counseling and chat, to gay cruise-lines, internet porn and virtual relationship, we most of all are suffering from the "information nations" delusions of our community. We are forced to question: Will this strengthen or threaten our community? Does this render the process of coming-out unnecessary? What is your opinion? Let me know
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