Jakarta 4.4.2015, Suarakita’s latest movie screening and discussion was
held in their HQ in kalibata area. The imitation game was just an
elicited for the discussion on “to sue the criminalization on love”.
I’m not going to make a review on imitation game, you can easily find that on google.
Our discussion was conducted by Tunggal Pawestri, who works at Hivos in Jakarta with her ongoing project is about inter-religion marriage. You can read further about Alan Turing from her point of view right here.
Out of so many people who were close to LGBT community, Tunggal has the most honest objective opinion. I met a lot of person claiming that they have no objection towards gay people but when a member of his or her family is gay then the whole story changes, whether you could be disowned, or being isolated due to shaming the family. Tunggal has no opinion if her children will be gay, but one thing for sure she did teach her daughter of other marriage option; not just a man and a woman, but can be woman to woman, although the idea that her daughter might be bullied at school frightened her of the lesson that she tried to teach. She’s not oppose nor against, for me that is the fairest I’ve heard, unlike the tramp next door. Lol.
Long story short, there is no silver lining on this case. For five hundred years LGBT was treated as criminals. Until recent years several laws was revoked but that doesn’t change the fact that the LGBT community still have to struggle to obtain equality. All of the convicted before 2003 had their DNA sample taken and collected among other felonies such as pedophile etc.
Teguh Iman asked whether a gay person should reach AlanTuring’s level just to be accepted as a gay person, the discussion answered that question but all I have in my mind was “we need a new plague”.
How can someone be criminalized because of love? Just because your religion said so?
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