A lighthouse
What a pity that people are mobilizing against the choice (in fact, it is not a choice, but a fact) of another person. How can that bother them? Let them lead their lives as they see fit and let others lead theirs. It is certain that with characters like Trump and his followers who say anything to make themselves interesting and who believe they have the truth, it is more difficult to exist differently. We thought we had evolved over time, but these “self-absorbing puppets” set us back. You are a beautiful person, go on with your life without worrying about those backslidden mammoths. Unfortunately, adolescence being a vulnerable time in life, it is more difficult for young people to move forward without caring about others. At this age, you need the approval of the other and your gang. Let’s protect them as best we can to help them get through this time in their lives. Let the adults who freely confess their orientation in the media serve as their beacon. The decadent leaders will eventually disappear with their retrograde speeches.
Carmen St-Jacques Lariviere
Shocking journeys
I have worked all my career with LGBTQ people and what you share reflects the suffering experienced by these beings with their sometimes overwhelming life course. My son is 26 and his boyfriend is 27. They did their primary and secondary education in a small rural area and both have experienced and still experience anxiety, probably related to the fear of being victimized. homophobia. Fortunately, we love them very much, they have a nice entourage and they are beautiful inside and out!
Martine Fortin, retired sexologist, Abitibi-Ouest
Moving
I want to thank Mr. Baril Guérard for writing this testimony. I am moved reading it. I salute his courage. I am thinking of all those young people and adults who are still suffering from all this violence.
Celine Leclair
A model
I am a mother of two sons aged 34 and 38. They are heterosexual. If one of my sons had been homosexual, I would have liked him to be Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.
Suzanne Pomerleau
Loud minority
Luckily you didn’t take action, we would have missed a lot of good stories that really get off the beaten track. I found your testimony sober and very touching, thank you. As I often say: each population has 10 to 15% morons, but God! how noisy they are.
Francine Fournier, Two Mountains
How brave !
What a beautiful text! And what courage you had to deploy to accept yourself as a worthy person despite the homophobia that surrounded you.
Serge Lagueux
The climate of an era
Thank you for this beautiful and very moving text. It represents well the climate in the school buses of that time. Fortunately, we can now appreciate your works. In addition, a beautiful tribute to Mado who left this world recently. She must be smiling from up there.
Helene Trottier
Always to do again
Thank you, Jean-Philippe, for bearing witness to your experience and for enlightening the ignorant who are coming back in force almost everywhere on the planet. We must not let them. A struggle always to redo, a freedom never acquired…. misery ! Why so much hate again and again…?
Michelle Neron
A day…
Lucky you didn’t go missing at 11, we would have missed Royal, High demolition, Wildlife Handbook… and all the others. I finish reading Never wipe a tear without a glove, and it saddens me so much to see what you are talking about. I thought it was before. When will this world where we will no longer talk about the choice (and gender) of the person who will make us live a moment of love! These words (homosexual, lesbian and more) will no longer be part of our vocabulary, because it will not be necessary to identify the sex of love, as in the first part of the novel. Towards paradise. I am a mother of a son who is gay and a grandmother of a lesbian granddaughter. And I don’t want to live worried about him, or her, or anyone.
Danielle Girard