Well Now

Vika and Miroslava, two good friends during the Pride Parade in Kyiv, Ukraine, last summer. Although they are heterosexual, they’re great supporters of the LGBT cause.

In the past years, different participants at Pride Kyiv were aggressed on the way home by extremist groups. So why would you attend such an event, for a cause that doesn’t even concern you. Because it does concern you, actually. You don’t have to be a queer, to support LGBT causes. You don’t have to be a Muslim, to speak against Islamophobia. You don’t have to be a woman, to support feminism. And so on.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching.  As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.  The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning!  May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”