Obama announces he supports gay marriage

 Hours ago the American President Barrack Obama who happens to hold one of the most powerful offices in this world made a speech that was widely televised, speaking of his opinion on Gay marriages.  When on Wednesday night he decided to make an endorsement to gay marriages because of a personal transformation on the issue. There were speculations that the president got to this decision after the vice president Joe Biden embraced the idea of same-sex unions in a Sunday talk show interview. Either way Obama (the man himself) is in support of gay marriages, so I cross my fingers that the serial imitation habits that Kenyans hold will not come to an end right now when we need them most.

The  Kenyan LBGTI activists and members of the community may be excited over this statements mainly because the president has a Kenyan born biological father there lays the question of what does that mean for Kenyans.

Luckily for us as the LGBTI the KNHRC just coincidentally gave their report on LGBTI in Kenya just hours before the presidential speech. So the entire country is on a high on Gay issues and the least we can do right now is arrest this situation.  Take advantage of the attention that we are getting now to explain if not teach the Kenyan society that we are not a threat to them hoping that this leads to a step nearer to the decriminalization of homosexuality in this lovely place we call home.

Let’s not forget that this will not be handed to us in a silver platter not that we expected it. The country is up in arms following conversations in all forms of media on the offense Obama’s endorsement. But what does this mean for Kenyans who identify as LGBTI and think it is way beyond D-day for that long awaited day when we shall be in luxury of the choice to have a recognized civil union with the persons we identify as our partners and stop hiding behind that mask of roommates and best friends that are so dear to us that we choose to live with beyond the accepted collage years.

For each day the questions arise on what we are doing sharing houses if not homes with these “friends” who we tag alone for all family functions and public assemblies. We search for a justification for their presence that strains relationships with family friends and colleagues and at the very worst see to the end of these relationships that hold so much worth to who we are as people.

To all LGBTI persons out there consider this not a time to crawl to your closet and wait for those with louder voices to speak for you. Stating your opinion to those who can do something to fasten this process is just what we need to gather more silver in this cloud that is us in this society.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!