RIP JAMEY RODEMEYER

Source: Pinknews.co.uk

18.09.11 a tragedy happened. 14-year old Jamey Rodemeyer, a student at Williamsville North High School just outside New York (US), took his own life after being bullied for being gay. People on his blog told him to kill himself. They told him to end his life. Cause he might as well do it now, cause he's ending up in hell anyway apparently.

This was Jamey, making a video for "It's gets better campaign". He is now dead.


This fumes my anger so much!!! I can't understand how those people that pushed him to doing this can live with themselves. What did this boy EVER do wrong?!? Absolutely nothing! He was being himself and just cause some people are stupidly narrow minded he chose to take his own life.

That's not right!

When I was out in Swansea before the summer a Christian guy stood in Wind Street (the club/pub area). As I walked past he said this: "Even though you are intoxicated and have sin, you can still be saved. Your souls aren't lost like the homosexuals. Un-pure and sinful beeings they are" My friend had to grab my arm, cause I so wanted to punch his face!  I'm all for freedom of speech and the right to believe to in whatever religion you'd like, but don't push it at me like that!

So I say, this only means we have to show the world that this is NOT accepted in any shape or form! We will never forget! We will always stay true and make sure Jamey did not completely die in vain and try to make sure that we look out for each other. People have only one life, one life, that's it. Someone took Jameys.

R.I.P. Jamey Rodemeyer

Today's song: The Fray - How to save a life

CLIMBING FOR HALLOWEEN

Sorry I haven't updated lately, been some busy days. Been working with my charity project, student union and Freshers fortnight.

Today I had a great time, went climbing. Well I also realized that I'd forgotten all my climbing gear in Norway, harness, shoes, B-lay, hooks etc. Sometimes I even amaze myself.... When I reached one of the tops I thought "I feel fucking awesome. I feel alive." Felt so good! Hanging on the rocks, trying to get to the top. Fucking awesome!

 

I also got my rollerblades gear today, helmet and wrist protectors, so hopefully soon I'll get back on my skates :D

I've just finished the Hobgoblin beer, the unofficial Halloween beer. LOVE IT! Have tasted another type before, I think. Anyway, it's awesome. Highly recommended. A tad bit sweet, but not too much.

Which then reminds me, it's 32 days until Halloween! My second favorite holiday after Christmas (86 days). Ever since I've been 11 years old I've celebrated Halloween. The idea of being able to walk around scaring people whilst looking scary like as shit and just being a crazy freak + maybe some candy, fills me with joy.

In college/high school we took Halloween VERY seriously, which made me love the holiday even more. A day a year we get to celebrate the ghouls, ghosts, monsters, spirits, dead etc. I do love vampires! Hate the Twilight version where they glow like diamonds in the sun, but more the Vampire Diaries or Supernatural version. No one, then I mean no one, can deny that Ian Somerhalder is the a very hot vampire....!

Bought this voodo doll in Greece in ehhh.... 2007? And it was the first item to be hung up in my car.

I've orded what I need for my costume this year. It's not a zoombie, cause I've been this for the last three years. Not gonna tell you, but it's gonna be amazing! :D MOHAHAHAHA

Halloween <3 (Then Christmas)

I love The Nightmare Before Christmas! Tim Burton should be given an award... oh wait, he already has a few. I always watch this each Halloween :D Last year when we decorated the halls we had the Nightmare Before Christmas album from Spotify on. We had the best Halloween kitchen ever.

Today's song: The Nightmare Before Christmas - This is Halloween

RAISE YOUR GLASS PINKY

I made this originally for my Coming out post, but I wasn't happy with it. Cause I thought I was the most terrible actor ever and some technical stuff that was a bit shit. But my friends and my mom thought that was the thing that made it really funny. And a very wise person said to me yesterday "I wish I had the guts to do that." Then I started thinking; Well maybe I should. To be a good example of a fun (though shit acting) way of exiting the closet.

One of my housemates was basically wetting herself when I showed them the drag queen part.

So here it is! (First I'm a REALLY poor drag queen, or rather an imitation of one, so to all you queens out there; I tried, but I failed, the crown is yours :D )



Me and my friend Marianne had such a laugh filming this! You have no idea xD HAHA!

Today's song: P!nk - Raise your glass

MUMMY, CAN WE GO TO MCDONALDS?

This is only a handful of the celebrities I could think of that are gay, lesbian or bisexual. It's many. You'll find LGBT theme and subject in MANY series, commercials and films. The logos your under here is some of the companies that's aired LGBT commercials.

I do NOT hold the copyright to any of these logos. They belong to the company and it's corporations.

Here are my favorite commercials:


McDonalds(This one is my ABSOLUTE fav)   MTV

Pepsi                                                               Renault the boy said "papa tu peux nous faire entrer"
                                                                       means: dad can you help us to get in (in the night club)
                                                                       and bien dans son epque bien dans sa twingo means
                                                                      if you are okay in your time (period, era, age, days)
                                                                       you are also okay in your twingo - source YouTube comments

Centraal Beheer (insurance)                          Oslo Sporveier (90s Norwegian public transport)

View the rest of the playlist on You Tube

LGBT charecters in TV series is REALLY common. This is a small handful of action/drama only from 2006 up to now. You can check out a complete list here

I do NOT hold the copyright to any of these logos. They belong to the company and it's corporations.

The popular British TV series Torchwood. I still haven't started watching that completely. Not so long ago, they aired a gay sex scene that some found too much. BBC have gotten several complaints, but you gotta love their simple reply: "We aim to depict relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual in an honest and realistic way." BUT I'll say this, regardless of the gender having sex, I think it's a bit wrong cause young kids can watch this on iPlayer in daytime. So maybe they should consider censoring sex scenes, but then again, where is the line? Between a simple quicky with no meaning and a deep love scene which has a great meaning to the series/film?

      
The VERY popular TV series GLEE, which I also like, has several LGBT characters. If memory serves me right, I think there is five. Where 3 is gay and 2 is bi/lesbians. On the left is a mash of several scenes relating to the characters Britney and Santanas relationship. On the right, is the characters Kurt and Blaine's first kiss.
       
You see? Ain't that "alien" and "different". All people come in different size and form. That's just who we are. Humans. No more, no less. If people can't accept that fact, I pity them, for not seeing the bigger picture.

Today's song: MIKA - Big Girl
 

COMING OUT

Even though me and my parents always have had a very open relationship, telling them I'm bisexual was one of the hardest things I've ever told them. 90% of me knew that they would take it perfectly fine, but it's that 10% that stays put. And when I finally did tell them, they took it great! Mom basically said "I know".

Not everyone are that lucky when exiting the closet.

Take a look at this short documentary "Coming out in the 1950s". In the 1950s LGBT persons suffered heavy discrimination. Being gay was seen as a "mental disease" and one of the recommended treatment methods was electro shock, against your own will. In several countries, if you were caught by police in a gay bar, gay club etc. they might round you up and in some places they published their names in the paper the day after.



I was really touched by some of the stories in this documentary.

One of my mates status a while back.

Okay let's rewind a few hundred years. Homosexuality was common at the very beginning of humanity, when the neanderthals ruled the continent with their clubs. Proof of this is found in several hundred cave paintings with a homo erotic character. In old Greece when Plato and Aristotle were alive, so was very much the custom of being homosexual openly.

"385 BC – Plato's Symposium is published in which it is argued that love between males is the highest form and that sex with women is lustful and only for means of reproduction. Only with men can the Greek male reach his full intellectual potential"

"In year 54, Emperor of Rome Nero, married two men with at least one spouse accorded the same honours as a Caesar's wife."

Well I don't agree completely with the first quote, cause love is for everyone, but my point here is that "gays" have been around for ages. The second one just proves that the great Emperor Nero saw his husband as equal as he would a wife.

In the next one I'll show you how common it really is in today's world. Next up; People, media and culture

Now to one my favorite artist; P!NK! This lady rock! She's herself no matter what. I love Raise your glass :D When I was thinking of tattoos I considered getting either Breakaway, So What or Raise your glass.

Today's song: P!nk - Raise your glass

BORN THIS WAY: Hei jeg er biseksuell

I've chosen to write this in both English and Norwegian, so I'm sure all my family know precisely what I mean and also so my many non-Norwegian friends can tune in.


Jeg har valgt å skrive dette på både engelsk og norsk, slik at jeg er sikker på at alle i familien forstår eksakt hva jeg mener og slik at mine ikke-norske venner kan henge med.


Norsk versjon - under          /           English version - click here
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Hei jeg er biseksuell

Et bilde jeg tok under Skeive Dager paraden i Oslo 2011 - Flickr

Å herregud det var digg å endelig si høyt og tydelig til alle sammen. Mange av mine venner visste dette og har visst i litt over et år, så burde ikke akkuratt komme som et sjokk for dem. Først vil jeg si takk til alle mine venner som har vært der for meg gjennom denne prossessen og også foreldrene mine i nyere tid. Og beklager hvis noen i nær familie fikk vite det sånn, men jeg klarte ikke å holde det inne lenger og for å være helt ærlig vil jeg helst slippe å ha 15 komme ut av skapet samtaler med ulike familiemedlemmer.



Men husk en ting, jeg er MEG, endelig. Min seksuelle legning forandrer IKKE min personlighet. 

• Bestemor jeg er fortsatt "nuppetuppen" din. 
• Bestefar, jeg er fortsatt den lille gutten som elsker å bygge modelltogbanen i kjelleren.
• Farmor, jeg er fortsatt barnebarnet ditt som kommer innom å fikser dataen og lærer det nye triks.
• Farfar, jeg er fortdatt han som gleder seg som et lite barn på julaften til å dra på skytebanen med deg.

Og til alle andre, jeg er fortsatt meg, det vil ikke forandre seg :D

Etter noen år med tenking har jeg endelig kommet frem til denne konklusjonen:
Det spiller ingen rolle HVA jeg forelsker meg i, men HVEM.

Kilde: beautifoolchaos.blogspot.com

Tanken streifa meg når jeg var 14, men jeg gravde den fort ned igjen. Den poppa opp her og der, men benektet det alltid. Føelsene og tankene rundt det å være homo/bi gjorde at jeg følte meg skamfull over meg selv. Etter at jeg ble singel sommeren 2010, startet jeg å virkelig tenke på det. Jeg gikk langt inn i meg selv, på jakt etter meg, for å finne ut saker og ting. I den perioden var jeg ikke akkuratt "Mr. Solstråle" så til noen av mine universitets klassekamerater; Jeg vet at noen av dere så på meg som en sinna, uhøflig kødd i begynnelsen. Beklager det xD Jeg hadde bare en del som virra rundt i hodet.

Uansett, jeg brukte muligheten som bød seg pga flytting å finne meg selv. Jeg kunne starte på nytt. Prøve noe nytt. Eksperimentere. Være meg.

Og som mange av dere vet, tok jeg to tattoveringer i januar. Aslan (løven) tattoveringen er mest fordi jeg er en Narnia nerd og digger løver og hva de står for; styrke, mot og trofasthet. Breakaway tattoveringen betyr en god del for meg. Den betyr å være fri, være meg selv og gå ut i verden, men samtidlig holde fast ved de viktige tingene som familie og venner. Det å komme ut av skapet gav meg mye av inspirasjonen til denne.

Første gang jeg kysset en gutt (hvis du ikke teller med den gangen i barnehagen hvor jentene tvang oss til å ha et "guttebryllup" haha) var februar 2011. Vi datet i en veldig kort stund, det funka ikke, men det ene øyeblikket vil alltid være med meg. Det utrolige rushet jeg følte med det første kysset. Det spilte egentlig ikke noen rolle hvem det var, bare følelsen i seg selv. Den aller første gangen... jeg vet ikke hvordan jeg kan beskrive det... man føler seg som en rampete guttunge som smaker forbudt frukt for aller første gang. Det er ikke selve eplet, men det faktum at det er forbudt. Ga det noe som helst mening til noen andre enn meg??

Kilde: iknownnailer.blogspot.com

Jeg bryr meg egentlig ikke så mye om labels. Bi, homo, lesbisk, transseksuell etc. Jeg har ikke et stort behov for å nevne i hver samtale at "Jeg er bi", men det betyr IKKE at jeg kommer til å holde kjeft. Det er alt for mye diskriminering i verden til at alle vi kan være stille! Noen land har fortsatt dødsstraff for homoseksuelle...  Også her i vår del av verden finnes det diskriminering. I Storbritania har ikke homoseksuelle lov til å donere blod uavhengig om de er frisk som en fisk og man har heller ikke lov til å gifte seg! Hva faen? Det er 2011! Akkuratt når det kommer til slikt er jeg stolt av å være norsk, et land hvor homoseksuelle står fritt til å gifte seg og donere så mye blod som de måtte ønske. Vår Nasjonale Politidirektør er gift med en mann og de har to barn sammen. Den ene tingen som irriterer meg grenseløst er statens mening om surregati, uavhengig av seksuell legning. Det er ikke tillatt i Norge. Men jeg skal spare det til et annet innlegg, for hvis jeg starter klarer jeg ikke å stoppe, haha!

Som jeg sa helt på begynnelsen, jeg er MEG, endelig. Min seksuelle legning forandrer IKKE min personlighet. Se på det på den her måten; jeg har bare et større utvalg i partnere enn alle andre :D

I de neste dagen kommer jeg til å ha en "LGBT awareness week" på bloggen min, så hold på hatten og heng med! (Ja det blir bare på engelsk, rett og slett fordi jeg orker ikke skrive på begge språk og bare er lettere på engelsk)

• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender / LGBT
• LGBT history
• Culture & life today
• ++

Nå er det musikk tid!
Musikk er for meg "sjelens språk". Jeg føler ofte at det kan være lettere å vise hva jeg føler gjennom musikk. Det trøster, det gjør meg glad, det gjør meg sint, men det hjelper.


Get ready! Her kjem musikken. Jeg har lagd en spilleliste med mye av sangene som ganske godt summer opp hva som har surra rundt i huet mitt. (Du trenger musikk programmet Spotify for å se spillelista)

  Up Up and Out

Dagens sang: Lady Gagas - Born this way Performed by GLEE

BORN THIS WAY: Hi I'm bisexual

I've chosen to write this in both English and Norwegian, so I'm sure all my family know precisely what I mean and also so my many non-Norwegian friends can tune in.

Jeg har valgt å skrive dette på både engelsk og norsk, slik at jeg er sikker på at alle i familien forstår eksakt hva jeg mener og slik at mine ikke-norske venner kan henge med.

Norsk versjon - klikk her            /           English version - below
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Hi I’m bisexual

A picture I took at the Oslo Pride Parade 2011 - Flickr

God that felt good to finally say out loud to everyone. Many of my friends already know and have known for over a year, so shouldn’t be that big a shock to you lot. First thanks to my friends that’s been there for me throughout all this and also my parents in recent time. And sorry if any in the close family got know it like this, but I couldn't keep it in any longer and to be frank I really don't wanna go through 15 "come-out-of-the-closet" talks with different family members.


But remember one thing, I'm ME, finally. My sexual orientation DOESN'T change my personality.

• Grandma (mothers side) I'm still your little "snicklefritz" (the best translation I could find)
• Grandpa, I'm still that little boy who enjoy building the model train track in the basemnt
• Grandma (farther's side), I'm still your lovely grandson who fix your computer and teaches you new tricks
• Grandpa, I'm still that boy who is as excited as child on Christmas eve when it comes to joining you on the shooting range.

And to the rest of you, I'm still me, that'll not change :D

After several years of thinking I’ve finally reached this conclusion:

It doesn’t matter WHAT I fall in love with, but with WHOM.

Source: beautifoolchaos.blogspot.com

I got the idea in my head when I was 14, but quickly suppressed it again. The thought merged sometimes here and there, but I always denied it. The idea of being gay/bi made feel ashamed of myself. After I turned single summer 2010 I started giving it some very serious thought. I went far into myself, looking for me, trying to figure things out. In that period I wasn’t precisely “Mr. Sunshine of happiness” so to some of my uni classmates; I know some of you thought I was an angry, impolite prick in the beginning. Sorry about that xD I just had a lot on my plate at the time.

Anyway, I used the opportunity of moving to a new place to find myself again. I could almost start over. Try 

out new stuff. Experiment. Be me.

Also as most of you know, I got two tattoos in January. The Aslan (lion) one is mostly cause I’m a Narnia geek and I love lions and what they symbolize; strength, courage and fatefulness. The Breakaway one means a great deal to me. It means to be free, to be myself and go out into the world, but still hold on to the important stuff such as family and friends. That was very much inspired by my recent exciting the closet.

First time I really kissed a guy (if you don’t count the one time in kindergarten where the girls forced us into having a “boy-wedding” haha) was in February 2011. We dated for a very short while, didn’t work out, but that one moment will always stay with me. The great rush I felt with the first kiss. Didn’t really matter who it was, just the feeling of it. The very first time… I donno how to describe it… you feel like a small naughty kid tasting forbidden fruit for the very first time. It’s not the apple itself, but the fact it’s forbidden. Did that make any sense to anyone else than me??

Source: iknownnailer.blogspot.com

I’m not that concerned with labels really. Bi, gay, lesbian, transgender etc. I don’t need to mention it in every conversation that “I’m bi”, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stay quite. There is way too much discrimination in the world for all of us to be quite! Some countries still have death penalty for homosexuals... Also here in our part of the world can you see discrimination. In UK homosexuals aren’t allowed to donate blood even if they’re in perfect health and they can’t marry! What the hell? It’s 2011! Here I’m proud to come from Norway, a country where homosexuals are free to marry and donate as much blood they want. Our National Chief of Police is married to a guy and they have two kids together. The only thing that annoys me more than anything is the government’s attitude towards surrogacy, no matter the sexual orientation. It’s not allowed in Norway. But I’m gonna save that for another post, because if I start there I won’t be able to 

stop, haha!

As I said at the very beginning, I'm ME, finally. My sexual orientation DOESN'T change my personality. Look at it this was; I just simply got a wider range of partners to choose between :D


For the next few days I'm gonna be having a "LGBT awareness week" on my blog, so keep you knickers on and stay tuned!

• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender / LGBT
• LGBT history
• Culture & life today
• ++

NOW it's music time!
To me music is the "language of the soul". I feel that often it might be easier to show what I feel through music. It comforts, makes me happy, makes me angry, but it helps.


Get ready! Here come tha music. I've made a playlist with a lot of the songs that pretty much sums up what's been going on in my head. (You need Spotify to view/play the list)

  Up Up and Out

You could not have a "coming out" post without this song!

Today's song: Lady Gaga - Born this way Performed by GLEE

SHROOMS IN THA WOOD

Sorry I haven't blogged in a week, been working a lot in another store further up in Norway. It's kinda weird and a tiny bit sad I'm done working for the summer.

Yesterday I visited my grandmother (dad's side) and we went for a walk, looking for mushrooms. Found some really good one, Kantarelle/Chanterelle, we fried in butter, salt and pepper! Tasted like a mix of bacon and herbs.


Mama, sis, grandma, grandpa and me went to Blåfarveverket today. A museum + farm thing. They used to mine cobolt there, for creating the blue colour. They waterfall was massive now cause of all the rain we've had. And more to come... yeahhhh!



Love her voice <3
Today's song: Christina Perri - Jar of hearts

EGERTORGET FOOD FESTIVAL 2011

Me, mom, sis and my friend Marianne went to the Egertorget Matfestival/Food festival today. Loads of exciting food, grilled sweetcorn, smoked whale, cheeses and loads more. Also tasted a "bunny-meat burger", well it was good, but felt kinda bad when I walked 100meters and there was the bunny race and pet-the-furry-cute-bunnies area.

 



Me and Marianne had been night security guards down at the dock, looking after 250ish boats. We watched some films and did our round to make the time pass.

I found this during my "youtubeing" today. Never heard of The Ready Set before, I think, but kinda catchy.
Today's song: The Ready Set - Love Like Woe

FUCK FOR THE FOREST

Me and my mate Ola decided to go for a evening run today. He bailed at 4,7km then I carried on until 11,48km. Jogged up to a farm, Frøtvedt, but then I suddenly wanted to head into the forest. Haven't been in that part of the forest since I was like, 12 or 13 ish, so was good to be back. Me and Ola are gonna do a longer run sometime later, either this week or later.

It felt great! Just me and the forest, no noise, just some birds here and there. Lovely! All the animals (and many more of course) is animals that live wild all over Norway. I often meet deer (top right) when I'm out running f. ex. they walk across the street, into a garden and straight to the forest. I remember once the deer came up to our terrace on the summer and started eat my moms flowers. We did take a photo, but so many years ago and donno where it is.

I've met Moose/Eurasian Elk (down left) several times, both when walking and driving. When I drive back from work around 22-23 and it's dark, closing in on fullmoon and add some fog, volà! Moose crossing the road. Stupid animals... I've had to hit the brakes so hard cause they suddenly decide to jump into the road. I remember once a moose calf came out into the road... then I knew a mother wouldn't be far behind and like five seconds later there she came. Then I just make sure the car stands perfectly still, cause if she feel her kid is threatened she just MAY attack. Still nice animals, met them also a couple of times when walking. 

The Eurasian Lynx/gaupe (down right) I've only met'em only once. I was about 9-10 years old and were at old classmates house and we were playing outside. He lived by the edge of a forest, though in a big street. And a Lynx showed itself and came slowly walking our direction, so of course we were 9-10, we ran inside. But it's a lovely animal! Would love to see it again.

Oh, the title is from a Norwegian group of eccentric and special people who believe having public sex will help the environment. They've had several public "protests" in the last years, most known was when two people had sex on the stage during a festival concert.

Today's song: Nicole Scherzinger - Right there ft. 50 Cent