Comments | lessrest: LET ME TELL YOU A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING

lessrest

LET ME TELL YOU A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING

Jul 07, 2010 00:40

I'M GONNA TELL YOU A STORY. IT'S A TRUE STORY. IT'S ABOUT GAY RIGHTS AND MUSIC.
IT HAS A HAPPY ENDING, I PROMISE.

→ The year was 2002. This was before Sweden became a totally awesome amazing country when it comes to LGBT rights. Back in early 2002, gay couples couldn't adopt nor get married, there was just some less awesome partnership ceremony ( Read more... )

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Comments 31

intimately July 7 2010, 09:28:28 UTC

Yay for LGBT rights! And that band are fantastic for doing what they did. I can't blame the singer for being pissed off. I'm still pretty pissed about the opinions of gay couples. Hell, my parents would likely disown me (at least so they've said) if they knew I dig women.

I'm gonna go watch that video as soon as I find my damn headphones!

lessrest July 7 2010, 11:52:18 UTC

Yay! Right? It was so awesome of them. And I love that the song became one of the most-played songs on the radio/TV here that month :D
It's so sad that there's still homophobia in the world. I'm sorry about your parents. :(

Heeh! Hope you find them soon, the song is awesome. :D

I love his whole fuck-you-speech to the politicians in the lyrics:

You can legislate and oppress,
and you can make my life a mess,
but you can't take away how I feel,
or convince me that my wish is unreal

♥

irsandyberg July 7 2010, 11:22:43 UTC

Oh man, I forgot how much I love "It takes a fool to remain sane".

lessrest July 7 2010, 11:48:17 UTC

That song made me go out and buy their album. It was one of the first CDs I ever bought :D

mimes July 7 2010, 19:01:33 UTC

. . .
I didn't know these guys were Swedish! :o

I really do hope that other countries that don't have LGBT rights look at countries that have better ones and realize that hey, allowing gay people to marry and have children doesn't actually ruin the fabric society as we know it!

lessrest July 7 2010, 19:18:52 UTC

They are! I've seen them live, like, three times or something (IDK, I lose count). They represented Sweden in ESC a few years ago :D

But that would require using logic instead of listening to paranoid propaganda. However will people ever be able to cope.
Which, yeah, I agree with you!