Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Singing "Kumbaya"

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Singing "Kumbaya"

We are not one big homogeneous community! No matter how the Republicans portray us , we are L, G, B, T, Q. community. What binds us together is oppression and the Republicans think we are all "gay."

The Republicans paint us with a broad brush but many times within our community there is friction.

Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras condemned for refusing to highlight trans rights
Pink News
by Amelia Hansford
January 21, 2026

Sydney Mardi Gras is one of the biggest Pride events in Australia. (Getty)

Organisers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have been condemned for refusing to support a motion to make trans rights the focus of 2026’s event.

The Australian Pride celebration’s Board members announced it would not uphold a set of operational resolutions brought by members of the public during its annual general meeting in November last year.

One of the member resolutions, dubbed “embrace trans rights, not Trump”, called for the 2026 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to focus specifically on the rights of trans and non-binary people by “encouraging parade floats to show support for the trans community”, while also condemning US president Donald Trump.

We have our right-wingers which I call Gay Inc. because they tend to be wealthy conservatives. They only think of themselves.

“Mardi Gras stands proudly with trans and gender-diverse communities. We are, and always will be, a visible, active ally,” a spokesperson said. “This decision reflects [the Board’s] responsibility to … respect the independence and diversity of Parade participants. Ensure Parade participation is not used to leverage political outcomes, [and to] act in line with responsible governance and our Ethical Charter.”

Trans women spoke out against being thrown under the bus.

I seen this here! I seen it in Provincetown! All they care about is marriage, they don't care bout us, only their pocketbook.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Singing "Kumbaya"

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