My Letter,
The world has gone mad! History is recording, and
papers have become interesting again! From Egypt to Libya, and what had
happened to Japan (and still), not to forget Iraq and Palestine! It’s the age
of revolutions, mourning and rebel-yells! The world is in a gothic-romance
state. And If I wasn’t wrong, Mother Nature is on the verge of revenge, if that
she hadn’t started yet! And how can you keep quiet? With people dying over
freedom, over victory… “History does not teach fatalism. There are
moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and
opens up new roads.” - Charles de Gaulle. There’s an awaking happening and it’s all
so new, so affecting and so refreshing. Alya’s latest column was very
affecting, a must read of political misfits and situations of terms-today.
However, going to few months back, I can still remember the early winter days of a gloomy Amman. Night time, Amman can get a little gothic. I was sitting with my friend Alyah sipping tea. At that time, it has been weeks for Alyah’s arrival to Amman, adjusting to the older situations that she left behind 4 years ago, “a lot has changed… here! I changed too you know!” she said. I sat across from a woman of internal power, a shredded soul…and later it rained on us too. Alaya found out that she was a lesbian only a year earlier, maybe considered a little late for some. But she came in terms with it and still finding her way through. As we did receive tons of emails from supporting gay women toward the new column ‘Lesbo & The City’, Alaya had just begun. Her journey of a self discovery amidst a conservative country is on the notes, now being a completely different someone from the one she left 4 years ago, in the same country she left. ‘Lesbo & The City’ is something that would interest other LGBT readers, don’t exclude it but include it.
However, going to few months back, I can still remember the early winter days of a gloomy Amman. Night time, Amman can get a little gothic. I was sitting with my friend Alyah sipping tea. At that time, it has been weeks for Alyah’s arrival to Amman, adjusting to the older situations that she left behind 4 years ago, “a lot has changed… here! I changed too you know!” she said. I sat across from a woman of internal power, a shredded soul…and later it rained on us too. Alaya found out that she was a lesbian only a year earlier, maybe considered a little late for some. But she came in terms with it and still finding her way through. As we did receive tons of emails from supporting gay women toward the new column ‘Lesbo & The City’, Alaya had just begun. Her journey of a self discovery amidst a conservative country is on the notes, now being a completely different someone from the one she left 4 years ago, in the same country she left. ‘Lesbo & The City’ is something that would interest other LGBT readers, don’t exclude it but include it.
"I jumped off and caught it. There was a moment of silence until, I stood up with a victory stand raising the bouquet up in the air..."
After 2 months of pulling back, we come in an advanced issue. Spring is in a good mood. This month we feature Youtube ‘Bath baykha’ star Rami Delshad (<pic; right), who speaks about acceptance, defending his gay friends and the breakup of Jadal. Razan photographs the singer/actor on early Saturday morning in a messy-themed park, “he’s funny, I can’t believe I’m actually photographing a guy I used to listen to and watch on Youtube. It’s funny!” she says. It was 6 am in the morning when we started, heading to a neighbor hood park to catch the gloomy feel. Rami has trusted My.Kali in the shooting process, given himself completely to us, knowing exactly what we’re doing and trusting the process, and not having an in-put on any! Razan has done good. The feature reveals a new side, and photographs meet the expectations. Other features and articles are to die for this month is Mike’s LBB notes on his 7 dates of hell are both, quite funny and an eye-opener as well, he discusses the don’ts (Oh no he didn’t!). Julian’s modern take on the stereotypes comes within reason, discussing the issues that face LGBT days of today, denying takes an off start, and claiming new identities is next.
And speaking of stereotypes, I finally did it, I broke the notion, Clueless? Let me give you ahead start… in a wedding of a friend (which we know where that headed the first time) that dated few weeks earlier, and finally wearing the tux I wanted, which eased the process through the whole thing. By the end of the wedding, Beyoncé’s hit ‘single ladies’ was played by the DJ and the bride hollered for all the single people to gather on the dance floor so she would throw the bouquet, the groom joined out of a joke, but no one took it as seriously as I did though. Most of the people who gathered were women, as it was the tradition, but I ran to the dance floor as fast as I could… the bride gave her flawless tanned back to us and threw the bouquet, and as it crossed the air over the jumping crowd, without thinking, I jumped off and caught it (PS as I pushed all the girls aside, one was knocked off! Sorry!). There was a moment of silence until, I stood up with a victory stand, raising the bouquet up in the air, screaming ‘it’s me! I’m next’ and everybody in the hall without an exception, including the ushers hollered for me, clapping… The bride and the groom came and hugged me out of disbelief, taking pics with me, but what was funny is that my friend has it on video and the wedding’s photographer kept following me around wanting to take pictures of me holding the bouquet… boy what a night! Later on, as I got home, walking into the kitchen to put the bouquet in water, I thought, wow, I broke a stereotype, mmm... one down, now what’s next?!