Saturday, September 13, 2008

Debut

In this debut article, I will introduce you to my life, or what I'm sometimes tempted to call the 'Secret Life of Me', but I can not name my blog that because there exists a TV series called the 'Secret Life of Us' and I don't want to be called a copy-cat or be slapped with a multi-million dollar suit for infringement of Intellectual Property rights. For once I think I'd have made a great lawyer but...it wasn't my passion. Ok enough of the digression.


So what is so special about my life that would drive me to write and publish to the world a blog about me? Who am I, you might want to know. I am a nobody in this world. A Google search would yield no results. Read on and you will know who I am and why I am who I am.


My name is K.W. I chose to use my initials for the fear of reprisal. The world you and I live in is a cruel one and I would not want to risk my life and get bashed in the streets. I am a freelance journalist or a media practitioner, as those with an obsession for big names would like to say. I also engage small business activities. 'So what?' you might ask. That is not the reason for writing here today. The reason for writing today is to invite you to share and understand 'our' life. Yes our life, we who have been declared as a shame to mankind and the entire human race. You know who we are and you might be one of those who hates on us. I will not use those not so friendly terms you use to describe us, like queer, homos, fagots, or whatever! I will call us men and women of the alternative persuasion. Gay is a more universally accepted term which i might find myself using.


Welcome to our world and see how normal our lives are. The purpose of this blog is not to ask for sympathy, or gay rights, or legalization of same sex unions, but to show you how normal our lives are just as yours. You could as well be gay without knowing!


This blog will put you through the life of an ordinary Kenyan gay man, in a society where being of the alternative persuasion is a big crime. Well it isn't a crime and it’s perfectly normal as you will see. Let’s ride together.