PISTORIUS A FRIEND OF GAY COMMUNITY?
Facing shocking charges of premeditated murder, fallen sporting icon Oscar Pistorius has previously shown himself to be a supporter of the LGBT community.
Pistorius has been accused of shooting dead his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, at his Pretoria home in the early hours of Valentine’s Day.
The sobbing, fragile-looking man in the dock on Friday morning was a far cry from the confident gold-medal-winning Paralympic star who went on to become an international celebrity and sex symbol.
The 26-year-old Pistorius’ past actions have also suggested that he is a friend of South Africa’s LGBT community.
In 2010, he agreed to take part in the annual Mambaonline Sexiest Man Survey, in which South Africa’s gay community votes for its favourite local male celebrity.
More recently, the athlete participated in the It Gets Better South Africa video campaign, set to be launched as part of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre’s In Whom Can I Still Trust? exhibition.
The exhibition looks at homophobia in Nazi Germany and the gay rights movement in South Africa.
Pistorius is one of the well-known figures who appears in the collection of videos discouraging homophobic bullying.
“Just remember that you’re special. You don’t have to worry. You don’t have to change. Take a deep breath and remember it will get better,” says Pistorius in his video.
The It Gets Better South Africa video collection will be launched on February 20. The videos will also be available for online viewing on YouTube following the launch.
It is unclear if the video featuring Pistorius will remain in the campaign following recent events. Attempts by Mambaonline to contact the collection’s producer were unsuccessful at the time of publishing.
Pistorius will spend the weekend in jail and will appear in court again next week for a bail hearing.
I think the video should remain. The guy made stupid mistake, but we should not judge too quickly. Besides the LGBT community needs all the support we can get.
Support from a murderer? The LGBTI community has enough negativity/controversy surrounding it… We don’t need anymore!
Lets rather remember the plight of a healthy society – socially and mentally. Remember Reeva.
This letter re #Oscar was published 11 days before Valentine’s: “I had the unfortunate opportunity of finding out first hand how unheroic Oscar can be in real life when he has had too much to drink.” When Marilyn (in a firm but extremely non-aggressive manner) told Oscar that his behaviour was rude and unacceptable, she was met with a flurry of verbal abuse! This included being labelled ?f?ing lesbians? and a significant amount more. Good manners preclude a repetition of the full gamut of the tirade. Marilyn ? profoundly taken aback ? said to Oscar ?what is your problem?. His reply: ?I?m drunk, what?s yours.? News24
He sounds like a real “D”… Say what you want, he killed that poor sexy girl by meaning. Sounds like it is just the fans that does not want to believe it. they keep defending him. yet, all is so clear… not rocket science oscar fans He has anger issues.
Everybody and his dog are displaying profound insight and wisdom … actually rather useless when you consider that a person is dead, another’s life is ruined and countless family members and friends are dealing with fallout from this senseless tragedy! For once can we rise to the challenge of being human and not be pathetically gay around whom the world needs to resolve!
An extremely tragic incident that will never be forgotten – devastating.
IF YOU THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT OSCAR CHERISH GAY POEPOLN-OO-IERS, THEN YOU MUST BE STUPID. ALL DONE FOR PUBLIC IMAGE. I KNOW OSCAR ALL MY LIFE AND HE NEVER HAD ONE KOMPOSSTAMPER AS N FRIEND.
How eloquent.
The gay community is the last to judge. Gay people on a daily basis share drugs with each other while some die as a result. No difference to murder! Check all the gay places, Hothouse, Crew, Recroom, Saunaboys, Factory, Babylon…..drugs all over the place! So mamba should rather focus on the rotten filthy SA gay community!
Seems like you have had a lot of fun in these places yourself
This is approximately the third instance in the last 10 days or so of how ridiculous it is to give any importance to the utterances of people who are “celebrities” only because they are entertainers, sportsmen and the like.
one can onlybhope he didnt do it purposely for his own and her families sake, He has thrown away a fantastic like irrespective of whether he is gay friendly or not
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