It Gets Better in Malaysia: Pang Khee Teik "What's So Wrong With Love?"

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"It Gets Better in Malaysia" adalah projek video yang merakamkan mesej harapan untuk golongan muda LGBT Malaysia: walaupun situasi mungkin amat sukar di zaman remaja, namun keadaan akan menjadi lebih baik -- 'It gets better'. Mesej-mesej ini adalah untuk sebahagian kecil remaja Malaysia yang lesbian, gay, biseksual, transeksual (LGBT).

Projek ini adalah tindak balas kepada kisah-kisah benar mengenai remaja dan dewasa LGBT yang bunuh diri atau cuba bunuh diri. Statistik menunjukkan bahawa frekuensi dan kemungkinan berlakunya kes bunuh diri remaja LGBT adalah antara tiga hingga enam kali lebih tinggi berbanding golongan heteroseksual. Ini adalah akibat perasaan kesepian, ketakutan, atau putus asa yang disebab oleh stigma dan diskriminasi terhadap mereka. Kebanyakan orang boleh mengadu kepada keluarga, tapi ramai remaja LGBT dipulau oleh keluarga mereka sendiri. Mereka tidak boleh mengadu kepada sesiapa. Kami memutuskan untuk memberi semangat kepada mereka kerana kami dapat mendalami perasaan yang sama. Inilah sebabnya projek ini dimulakan. Ia bukan projek membuat video 'pengakuan gay'. Sebaliknya ia untuk memberi harapan kepada orang muda yang mungkin tiada harapan untuk hidup.

Seksualiti Merdeka, penganjur acara tahunan hak asasi manusia mengenai seksualiti, terutamanya hak asasi golongan LGBT, memperjuangkan projek ini berlandaskan kepentingannya untuk Malaysia. Penganjur pesta ini terdiri daripada gabungan beberapa kumpulan-kumpulan dan individu-individu, termasuk Bar Council Malaysia, SUARAM, Empower, PT Foundation, United Nations, Amnesty International, KRYSS, Purple Lab, Matahari Books, dan lain-lain.

www.seksualitimerdeka.org

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It Gets Better in Malaysia is a video project about giving hope to young LGBT Malaysians: even though things can be rough during the teenage years, it can get better. This message is targeted at the minority of young Malaysians who are growing up as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT).

This project is in response to accounts of suicides and attempted suicides by LGBT teenagers and adults. Statistics of such suicides are anywhere between three to six times higher than by heterosexuals. This is due to the overwhelming feelings of loneliness, fear or hopelessness that result from stigma and discrimination against them. Most people have their families to turn to. For LGBT youths, even their own families can be a source of rejection. They have no one to turn to. We decided it is up to us who have survived similar situations to reach out to young LGBTs. This is why the project was born. It's not about making coming out videos. It is about giving hope to youths at risk.

Seksualiti Merdeka, the organiser of an annual human rights festival on sexuality, especially the human rights of LGBT, took on this empowering project in belief of the message's importance and relevance to Malaysia. The festival is organised by a coalition of groups and inviduals including the Bar Council Malaysia, SUARAM, Empower, PT Foundation, United Nations, Amnesty International, KRYSS, Purple Lab, Matahari Books, among others.

www.seksualitimerdeka.org

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[doubleCcorrado]

Congrats Pang. Thanks for your courage and honesty.

[applejoint100]

@IceHairi there are seven billion people in this world and population keeps increasing... gay people are 4% of the world... can u do the maths? o.o stupid...

[valentine5209]

@IceHairi ...future. If u think it will, u will jus imaging all over it. There is no need for a homosexual ppl to keep encourage their kids to be homosexual or else it is sexual orienta-ist d. Homosexual ppl do not hate heterosexual, but they wan acceptance from them only..

[valentine5209]

@IceHairi Come on...What u think LGBT is? A form of trend or illness tat will spread? Can u be influenced to love same sex ppl n not feel disgusting..Think bout it. N Y CAN'T homosexual ppl produce children????? They still have sperm n ovum tat works perfectly well as heterosexual did. They (men) still can donate sperm to d sperm bank for those who need it n they (women) still always can be a surrogate mother. There is no such thing tat children raised by Homosexual will be homosexual in d ..

[valentine5209]

@firol19 ..but to fight for same sex love n equality. They cant live quietly n happily bcoz there r alot of bullies will pick on them, parents who found out bout it might throw them out of their family, lead them to suicide n so on. Why would they wan to live under fear? Why can't they speak for themselves? Can u accept havin a relationship wit ur girlfriend secretly throughout ur life, hiding from ur parents n frens all away n be HAPPY? Come on, i noe u r not tat selfish, think bout it...=)

[valentine5209]

@firol19 So now in ur mind gay is only = gay sex = disgusting = sex songsang n so on...In ur mind LGBT ppl is bout being dirty n sex? Wat do u mean by commercialize homosexuality? It is not an advertisement to encourage ppl to be homosexual , but to educate ppl bout being homosexual is not immoral, not an illness or wrong. Wat will they get from it? They do not wan anything but hoping for more ppl to understand them n acceptance for them. They r not fighting for having free sex wit same sex ppl.

[valentine5209]

@vdo18sx ..never will be... It is immoral to abuse or hurt others...

[valentine5209]

@vdo18sx I think u reli need to read up some good facts. 1st, homosexual is not any form of disease or illness which had been clarified by scientist in the world. 2nd, u r slapping urself coz since u said they got brain defect or hormonal imbalance, how is tat it is abnormal choice n practice? R downsyndrome ppl having abnormal choice n practice as well according to wat u had said? =.= 3rd, pedophile is a type of illness, it is an action of harming others, tat is y they r not to be support n ..

[adyseptember1]

muka gila SEX!!! Laki sontot Laki.... binatang pun kenaL jantan betina.

[MarkisaxX]

@IceHairi At 7 billion don't you think we should have some sort of cut off point to the human population at some point?