With Beenie Man heading to our shores in February, OUTline’s Trevor Easton says the LGBTI community needs to make our voices heard. OUTLine General Manager, Trevor Easton, believes the LGBTI community needs to vote with our feet and have a voice when acts like Beenie Man are invited to perform in New Zealand. “Don’t support these artists and speak out against any sort of hate messages about anyone,” he says. He says any hate lyrics against an group of people whether that be based on, race, culture, gender, religious or sexual orientation is completely unacceptable and it’s an “awful and sad shame” that people with public profiles are not more aware that their comments or lyrics can have a major impact on the lives of others. He adds: “We still have a long way to go to be fully accepted.”
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First published: Sunday, 22nd November 2015 - 12:44pm