Vanguard Revisited - GLBT Historical Society

People Power Continued: Juan A. Cerna-Aviles 2011
Why do you take your care from me
Am I not like you
Why do you say I am unworthy
Was I not born like you
Why do you say I’m a parasite
Am I not able like you
Why do you deny me
Was I not created too
O why dark soul O why are you so black
I have been in the womb like you, conceived
Yet u say I’m less than you
Heaven shines, and Angels sing
Yet u growl at nature like a beast
1:4
1967
Change I say, open your heart I tell you, for you are no greater
And I am no greater than you
Humble yourself you selfish heart
And continue not hating me for what you don’t understand
Open your hands and look at mine, aren’t they the same?
People Power is an issue made by a Vanguard movement for the sole purpose of
promoting understanding and love for all the people of the earth.
As a writer I got very interested in the fact of change: how change has always
created controversy, yet there seems to always be a silver lining in the midst of
chaos.
Equality for the LGBTQ community is the main reason this issue of Vanguard
Magazine was created in the 1960s. I see that now, December 23, 2010, we are
still fighting for equality, yet fifty years later we stand waiting for equality. San
Francisco has broken a lot of those barriers. Yes, we can hold hands and kiss in
public, but the mentality and the lack of education and open-mindedness has still
failed us poorly.
There are still people out there who want to postpone our equal rights. Republican
and church leaders have deemed us sinners and a corruption to society.
This makes me winder whether society knows anything about change, since the
richest people in America usually make the rules and regulations.
I believe that a movement keeps going forward. We should continue to make
bold statements through education within our community and exterior communities.
We as the affected can continue to deflect all negative assumptions about
the LGBTQ community. By gaining knowledge, the mind frees itself from the
suppression that society created.
Little by little we will get equal rights and be politically free, because what they
don’t know is that we continue to teach freedom as righteous and necessary!
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