Esta Semana - The Enkidu Newsletter

History and Background

About ten years ago, Grupo Palomilla Gay was founded. We started being six, seven... eight people. We had no previous experience but lots of will and energy. We wanted to let the World know that to be gay is to be human being. We wanted to be a part of this movement of human rights that consider that every human being deserves respect and protection under the LAW. We started being a new group in the fight for our rights. For all this time I had been there and as I have always had the idea that "Information is Power", I have always being informed about the International context -so to speak- of the QUEER reality. When I got into Grupo Palomilla Gay I noted a need for this "Struggle" for the GLBT liberation in Mexico to put it in its real context.

I wanted to share my knowledge as when I started working in the Foreign Affairs Secretary, I started to monitor the international media and with this I renewed my perspectives and changed the colors of the media, as the rainbow lights every now and then lighted newspapers as important as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El País, The Times as well as the short wave radio stations -BBC, Voice of America, Radio Nederland...- and TV broadcasters -ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, CBS, Deustche Welle, TV-5, TVE...-. I realized the GLBT topic is something to be listened and viewed but not in the most traditional Mexican way: Not just the crimes in which GLBT people would be involved or the crimes, for that matter, that are still published in Mexico.

I got used to the notion that GLBT news was as important as any other news. Then I started in Grupo Palomilla Gay and one day I had this idea of having a magazine within the group: REGISTRO GAY -RG-. I started publishing four Xerox pages and we ended with a well 24-30 PAGES publication. In this we had everything that has a relation with GLBT: Politics, poetry, cinema, movies, theatre as well as tips and gossip, and in every single issue: THE NEWS. I was always concerned with the idea that we, as GLBT population, must be better informed as this is the only way to get in touch with the ways other GLBT people are struggling in different parts of the world, and also, because of this need to be and to show solidarity among ourselves.

We are part of a queer population that is not restricted to one city, nor to one region, country or continent, but all over the world our presence has been a constant and is a constant in this very moment. I started to write the newsletter for myself, then for Grupo Palomilla Gay, then Tito Vasconcelos had a radio programme and he read my newsletter (Tarjeta Informativa) for three and a half years in Radio Educación in Mexico City. Then Victor Macias died, and the Grupo Palomilla Gay became a zombie for a couple of years. Nowadays I am the only Founding Member of this group and so when Miguel Angel Ham invited me to participate and organize "Los Martes de El Taller", I started reading again the newsletter and then the thirst of this kind of news has brought me -via internet- to send the information to some parts of the world such as Mexico (the City and the countryside), USA, Canada, Ecuador, Paraguay, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Spain, and every single week there are more people that get in touch with the Newsletter and ask for more and more knowledge. Thanks to very good friends in New York, in Melbourne and in Frankfurt I got news that I could hardly get unless I would check every single newspaper in those regions of the world. And now, for what seems to be a lifetime I have had the blessing to keep in touch with a wonderful person, a great Scientist and my very best friend Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge with whom ENKIDU was conceived and well, the rest is up to each and every one of US, readers and writers as well. I have been blessed with this chance to get in touch, to reach people and now I invite you to let the news be spread: We are Here, We are proudly QUEER!!!

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Esta Semana - The Enkidu Newsletter

History and Background

ENKIDU