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Ricky Martin's sexual freedom: an example to follow

 By: Francisco "El Jimagua" Cartagena Méndez
Writer and Human Rights Activist
President ASI Foundation
Twitter: @eljimagua

I do not lie to you, it is not that Ricky Martin lives 'the crazy life', nor that he lives half of life, but that beauty is his career and his walk; he has the cup of life clutched in his hands and his unfinished business is to infect us with his freedom, with his physical and inner beauty. The naturalness by which Ricky Martin lives his life breaks all kinds of stigmas and is a hard blow against homophobia.

Ricky Martin is a Puerto Rican singer and is homosexual. He has traveled around the world with his music and his great heart. He is a philanthropist who (risking his life), fight tirelessly against human trafficking. He has been successful on Broadway and in television series. In general, every project he carries out is a success due to his dedication, his talents and his professionalism.

But Enrique Martín's greatest success was several years ago, when he came out of the closet and shouted his truth to the world. With his album MAS (Music, Soul and Sex) he claimed his sexual orientation with songs like 'I do not lie to you' and 'More'.

Beyond the criticism that Ricky has received from some homophobic commentators (after marrying Jwan Yosef) and from religious fundamentalists, the naturalness through which he lives his life breaks all kinds of stigmas and is a serious blow against homophobia .

Ricky Martin is an example to follow. The projection of her life and her love with her husband Jwan Yosef and her beautiful children, represents a great motivation for other homosexuals. Very especially for homosexual people who are parents just like him. Who we have lived in the closet, we recognize how difficult it is to pretend to be someone else and the suffering it causes. A very hurtful, unjust and unnecessary suffering.

However, in the world there are still millions of people suffering from being forced to live a double life. In the case of our Ricky Martin, after living for so many years hiding his homosexuality - suffering possibly blackmail, bribes and threats - to live now as a totally free human being, he sends to the world a message of struggle for human rights and for the dignity of the people that belong to the LGBTT community in general.

Being gay is beautiful. But first you are human and all human beings must be free and respected. Then the labels that society created to divide us, segmented us and put us to fight with each other appear. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc., are labels created by certain groups in order to create sentences through which they gain power and control over our lives.

Religious fundamentalism is very dangerous and continues to intensify its hatred and its actions against homosexuals. In all the countries of the world there are people who suffer enormously and who commit suicide because of the rejection of their parents and society.

The world needs more artists, actors, politicians and people in general, who live their sexual orientation in freedom and with naturalness. Gays are human beings worthy and deserving of respect. We must have the right to life and to love without discrimination or fear.

It is important to keep fighting against the LGBT phobias. Love will always win in the end.Thank you Ricky Martin for existing, for living as you are, for putting the name of Puerto Rico high and for all the good things you do in different countries of the world.Ricky; If by chance you read this article, I dedicate these verses to you: "Your smile is a whirlwind of emotions, of which it would be a sin to hold on".

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The Nature of Homosexuality

By: Francisco "El Jimagua" Cartagena Méndez
Writer and Human Rights Activist
President ASI Foundation
Twitter: @eljimagua

Gay people and the LGBTT community have always existed. We have known about homosexuals in old stories and war stories, in fairy tales and in historical stories. We can mention Da Vinci, Alejandro Magno, or perhaps Federico García Lorca and his love for Salvador Dalí. We see them personified in theatrical comedies.

The reality is that being gay is a reality of life; It is something totally natural, another sign that human beings are totally sexual and diverse. In my thirty-one springs I have observed how many men hide their true human nature. They disguise themselves as heterosexual males or females, ignoring any possibility of discovering their true sexual instinct.

Sadly, millions of people in the world have been forced (either by fear, by habit, by learned machismo, by obligation or by cowardice) not to show who they really are. However, the indifference of a gay man in the closet towards another gay man rests on the connotation of the most absurd fear. We are in the 21st century, the freedom of other gays should not bother someone who lives in the shadows of double life. Instead, he should be an example and give him strength to be as he is.Being gay is being yourself. Both men and women around the planet earth want people of the same sex. In all civilizations, cultures and religions, homosexuality is a reality. This very real fact must make us ask the following; How human beings of different ideologies and cultures are able to have feelings and desires for people of the same sex? ... the answer is simple; because it is something totally real and natural of humanity.

In all the archaeological finds that seek to understand the history of humanity, there are present stories of love between people of the same sex. The reason for this is one, since there have always been people who feel sexual and physical desire and affection (love) for people of the same sex.The question that arises before the above is; Why then have homosexuals faced so much discrimination, persecution, hatred, assault and murder against them? The answer is divided in two; 1) the extremist religious ideology and 2) the domain of free thought.

Religious visionaries found in human sexuality, an opportunity to firstly condemn the human being, and second, to dominate him. Conviction precedes the domain of free thought and therefore dominates free sexuality. Uneasiness arises; why in more than 450 species of animals, homosexuality is a reality. A sexuality that is not persecuted, except in human beings of course.

The reason is simple, because the animals (those that are not human) do not have the reasoning by which, the persuasion and the cognitive domain is achieved. However, it is really unknown, if in the animal world (beyond humans) it is possible that there is discrimination by those animals that prefer to copulate between other animals of the same sex.

Being gay is identical to being heterosexual. Gay love and heterosexual love are marked by the same situations. The strangeness, the confidence or the distrust, the necessity and the custom, the desire and sexual appetite, the curiosity, the affection, the hug, the copulate, the kiss. All actions of affection and sexuality between human beings.

For many and for many, everything described above is well seen between couples of the opposite sex (because of the need for human procreation and for the divine or the contemporary deities). However, it is no less true that all human feelings (desire, strangeness, love, love, affection, sexual desire, custom, among others) are present in the lives of people or homosexual couples.

An important issue of homosexuality is that in a certain way, we contribute to not increase human overpopulation. Although many gay people (both men and women) have sons or daughters; the vast majority have not procreated. The overpopulation has negative effects for any country and this has been evident in numerous news headlines and various studies, as happens in China, which have a policy of procreation.

I dare to bet that this writing reflects, without a doubt for my own challenge, a new opportunity to continue writing and discovering new horizons about the diversity of the human being. You can judge me, but the idea is already on the table. To a good listener, only a reliable kiss between two people of the same sex is enough.

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