Uganda: "The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?"

Assinem a petição: "Uganda: Suspendam já a Lei “Matem os Gays”


"Nas próximas 24 horas, parlamentares da ala conservadora podem avançar na aprovação de uma lei que tornaria a condição homossexual um crime a ser punido com a pena de morte em Uganda.

Estamos nos unindo a ativistas daquele país para barrar a lei de “morte aos gays.”

Por favor, assine e divulgue esta petição endereçada ao presidente Museveni solicitando que ele declare publicamente sua intenção de vetar esta lei de promoção de ódio."

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Exibição do Filme: V for Vendetta

O Letras Fora do Armário tem o prazer de anunciar que vai exibir o filme “V for vendetta” esta quinta-feira (dia 12) às 14horas na sala 6.1 da FLUL.

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V for Vendetta é um thriller do ano de 2006 dirigido por James McTeigue e produzido por Joel Silver e pelos irmãos Wachowski . V for Vendetta é uma adaptação da colecção de banda desenhada com o mesmo nome de Alan Moore e David Lloyd.

A acção decorre num futuro próximo numa sociedade distopica em Inglaterra, onde um  partido totalitário governa. Hugo Weaving interpreta a personagem conhecida somente pela letra “V” – um carismático vigilante que usa uma mascara da cara de Guy Fawkes, que procura a justiça através da vingança.  Natalie Portman interpreta Evey Hammond, uma rapariga órfã da classe trabalhadora. Evey tem uma grande decisão pela frente,se fica do lado de V na luta contra a opressão mesmo sentindo-se desconfortável com a forma violenta que V procura a justiça e mesmo tornando-se uma fugitiva acusada de terrorismo.

V desencadeia uma revolução, incentivando todos os cidadãos a imporem-se contra a tirania e a opressão do governo. Evey ao descobrir a verdade acerca do passado de V descobre também algo verdadeiro sobre si mesma, conhecimento esse que lhe dá as forças necessárias para se juntar a V na luta pela restauração da liberdade e a justiça numa sociedade encurralada pela crueldade e a corrupção.

É impossível ficar indiferente a V for Vendetta, e muito dificilmente não nos sentirmos pessoalmente tocados pela sua mensagem. Com regime totalitário ou não, nós também vivemos num mundo de corrupção e injustiça, nós também temos de arranjar maneiras de dizer “já chega”, também nós precisamos de justiça para todos.

Citações memoráveis:

( Fonte: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/quotes)

Valerie: “ I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much.”

Valerie: “It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Valerie.”

Evey Hammond: [voiceover] “Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...”

Gordon Deitrich: “You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

V: ... “A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it, blowing up a building can change the world.”

V:” Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.”

Evey Hammond: “ My father was a writer. You would've liked him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.”

V: “A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!”

V: “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

Closing Credits Music Voiceover - Female: “ Sex and Race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about Humanism.”

V: “ Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.”