From Culture Club, Elton John, and George Michael to the Scissor Sisters... Many of my favourite music bands and singers are gay. All of them have different 80s music styles I happen to enjoy very much. A few days ago I received an email from my sister in Germany and she sent me some songs that are popular in Germany right now. On youtube I checked out the #1 hit in the charts to get an idea of what is going on back in my homecountry. I discovered the newcomer band Polarkreis 18 with their song "The Colour of Snow" and "Allein Allein" (German for "Alone Alone"). I fell in love with them. They are singing in a mix of mostly English, but also German lyrics. However, it seems pretty obvious when I watched the music video that the band's singer is homosexual. Of course, I don't have a problem with this (the singer is really cute, and isn't it that people always desire what they can't get?), but reading the comments some people left below the music video...

I read funny comments like, "I thought it was a woman singing" (in German).
But I also found statements like that, "I don't know what you think about this, but I don't like homos". Everybody can have his or her own opinion on this issue, but I honestly thought that arguments and the rejection of music or songs because they are sung by a homosexual was old-fashioned! Since the 80s the trend rather grew towards tolerance. Are homosexual singers still discriminated against? Or is it just funny to find the flaws in celebrities, pick a little on their vulnerable sides and see how they flinch? It is like a chem lab... "Examine the behaviour of this species after telling him that you avoid him because he is gay". How immature!

I found a nice quote describing how I feel. it is from Dr. Seuss and says:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind".

If you are interested in listening the music of Polarkreis 18, I would recommend "Allein Allein" (chorus in German, rest in English) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444L2Kc4zIg

Imagine that: Yesterday I came home at 6 pm, ate supper, and searched for a way to relax before the end of the day. I went to check my emails. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw 15 (!) new emails coming in.
“Finally, my friends sent me some news” I thought, and I awaited their arrival with excitement. Of course (and how could it be different) half of the mail was spam and notes telling me that I had messages on facebook. (Why don’t they just include my facebook messages in the messages that they send saying that I have a message on facebook? That would save so much time!) But a couple of the emails actually came from Germany- all the way over the great pond in seconds to inform me about what is going on in my friends’ lives!!!
I opened the first email, coming from somebody I barely talked to… What a nice gesture of her!
Well, when I started reading, pretty pictures, glittering animations and the sweetest things about me caught my eye! It said,
“Today is sister’s day. I want to tell you that you are everything for me. You are my lucky charm, my best friend, and I never want to lose you!”
Awwwww, how cute!
However…
When I scrolled down, the beautiful rainbow-picture suddenly faded, together with my smile. “You have to send this email to more than 15 friends in less than an hour, and you will find true love during the next week. If you don’t send the mail in this amount of time, you will have bad luck, your friends might turn their backs on you, and your cat will be run over by a FedEx van.” I suddenly understood: I am just the means, not the end. In front of me, I found a chain letter like any other, only sent to me to fulfill the required amount of people. Seriously, I was not flattered at all by this email anymore.
Honestly, what is the sense of sending chain letters via email? Sometimes they have a little note saying, “attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records”, but how who when and why does anybody control these letters? Where are the times when chain letters were actual letters? As a matter of principle, I refuse to forward chain letters I receive on facebook or in my email account. I really wonder why I am still alive and happy! ;) In elementary I got a real chain letter- one I could touch. From a person I knew. That was exciting! And it did not include those stupid threats that make me feel very uncomfortable.
So I sat in front of my computer, feeling the urge to act. So I typed the following:

“Anti-Chain-Letters-Chain-Letter:

Do you also feel intimidated and annoyed when you see another chain letter in your inbox? Do you want to stop the disappointed feeling when all of the mails you receive haven’t been addressed to you, but to a group? Send this letter to all of your friends to stop getting chain letters and feeling of your life being threatened!”

I sent this to my contact list!
There you go! Problem solved!