ALEXANDER DICK: OPINION ABOUT BEING GAY IN CURACAO VERSUS ST. MAARTEN.

I think that being GAY IN CURACAO, is harder than in ST. MAARTEN.  If you're gay and living in CURACAO, then you know exactly what I mean.  People will call you names.  If you're a gay guy behaving like a girl, "BEWARE".  It will get worse, you may get beaten by a group of homophobic dudes.

I've been to St. Maarten three (3) times, and its different from Curacao.  If I'm not wrong, the only thing I've noticed is that the people on St. Maarten, will give you looks or stare at you as if you were an EXTRATERRESTRIAL CREATURE they've never seen before.  Well, I feel great about it, knowing that I'm getting noticed; they're making me REMARKABLE.

In my mind, I still feel sad for other GAYS and LESBIANS here on St. Maarten, that doesn't have the support from their FAMILIES, or they don't have the courage to be who they really are, or they keep hiding in their own shadow as if it will remain an eternal secret.

I can assure you that hiding doesn't make anything better.  It goes from bad to worse, you cannot do anything like a normal person, because you're striving to not get noticed.  For me, it's impossible to not get noticed by other people.  People are all up in your business like "WENDY WILLIAMS", so it's impossible.

I personally never "CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET", in fact I was never in the CLOSET, I was well afraid, but then things started to be normal for me.  I got exposed to the GAY WORLD, when I took part in a pageant for GAY PEOPLE when I were only mere 15 years old.  I got 1st runner- up and MISS ELEGANCE, and that's when I got a lot of attention from people.

They have been asking on the streets if I was the guy that got 1st runner- up in the contest.  I simply replied with a "BIG FAT NO", you're wrong man, because at that moment, I didn't want my MOM to know cause I hadn't told her as yet.

Somehow she got a hold of a picture of me performing on stage, and I felt ashamed to see her looking with gazing eyes.  Everything went okay after she got the news, and I have plans on entering the pageant again and this time to win.

I think everyone deserves to live a happy healthy life, and everyone should have the same rights in order to have WORLD PEACE as they claim in pageants.  It's not our fault we're like this.....  It's not a decision that has been taken when our parents gave birth to us, WE ARE BORN THIS WAY, so be happy with yourselves; pick yourselves up and turn the world into a more TOLERABLE AND ACCEPTING PLACE.   DON'T FORGET WHAT I SAID!!!!  PUT A STOP TO HOMOPHOBIA NOW!!!!!!!!  GRACIAS!!!


ALEXANDER DICK : XOXO