Build BRIDGES and get over it!

Sunette Bridges, South African singer, and daughter of the late Afrikaans music icon, Bles Bridges, is constantly in hot water because of rantings on her social media platforms. She’s in the press every now and then because of her alleged right wing views and racist remarks but this time she allegedly chose to have a go at the gay community for fighting for our rights.

Bridges allegedly went on to say:

“Nou gaan ek seker behoorlik op die stapel gebrand word, maar DIE besigeheid is vir my Grieks...

Dis erg genoeg dat jy NIE deesdae mag verklaar jy is TROTS BLANK nie, want dan is jy mos 'n Rassis, maar "nevermaaind" daai gedoente... Jy mag ook nie verklaar jy is TROTS Hetroseksueel nie... Ons het nie eers geweet ons is veronderstel om dit te verklaar nie! ...ons "is" maar net...

Nou word ons elke liewe dag gekonfronteer met nog iemand wat MOET bieg hy is TROTS Homoseksueel!

Slaat my met 'n nat vis! Ons verstaan!!!! Ons mag nie oordeel nie... Ons moet dit aanvaar as deel van "hoe dit is"... ons moet weet daar is vlae en organisasies en optogte en betogings vir hierdie regte...

...maar my liewe GENADE! Hoekom dan so tekere gaan daaroor! Sien jy heeldag mense wat optogte te reël om te verklaar dat hulle "Straight" is? Reik ons al wat verklaring is uit om die wêreld se aandag daarop te vestig? Laat ontwerp ons vlae en hou optogte?

Aggeneeman! As jy NIE geoordeel wil word op grond van jou "Slaapkamersake" nie, hou tog op om dit in onse keelgatte af te druk!!!! Sx”

What this basically means is that she doesn’t get why gay people feel the need to shove their sexuality down her throat with our colorful flags and peaceful protests and she doesn’t get why we have to protest for our rights. Unfortunately, when I wanted to take a screenshot of her statement, she’d already removed it. But I do still feel the need to set her straight (Pardon the pun).

Firstly, congratulations on being heterosexual! No one said that you cannot be proud of that fact, I would be too. You can be openly affectionate towards the person you love in any country in the world and no one will ever persecute you for it! Further, you can easily adopt any child you like without anyone questioning what goes on in your bedroom AND you can marry whoever you like and the government, your place of employment, financial service providers and Joe public will recognise it without giving it a second thought.

Secondly, we are PROUDLY homosexual, because people like you, with your narrow minded bigotry, CAN and WILL not force us to live closetet lives in the shadows any more. Unlike you, we have fought a hard battle for decades to have the freedom to love openly and every now and then, we win battles to have the same BASIC freedoms as you straight folk do, and we are PROUD of that fact.

Lastly, the whole point of our flag and our protests are that people NOT judge us, in contradiction to your last statement. No one is forcing anything down your throat, least of all the gay community, because in case you haven’t heard, the boys don’t like girls, and the girls don’t have anything to shove down your throat. If everyone else kept their noses out of our bedrooms, the need for protest marches and rights organisations would be eradicated. But while lesbians are being raped, gay men beaten up and transgender individuals being mutilated just for being who they are, we WILL unite as one and make our voices heard by any means necessary. The same goes for our rights to marry the people we love and to be parents.

By your own admission on numerous occasions, our country is in crisis. And believe it or not, people like you, that only spread messages of intolerance makes the situation worse. It’s such a shame that someone who speaks out against violence such as farm murders and who donates copies of her albums so the proceeds may go to charity, feels the need to satisfy your audience with hate speech, racism and open bigotry. Go google yourself. Your career as a musician, and even your famous legacy is being overshadowed by the ugliness you choose to spit out on your social media platforms. If you don’t like what we do and the concept is “greek” to you, keep it to yourself and leave us in peace, we have done you no harm and we're not going anywhere any time soon.