We like to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to certain issues. We have been in denial about lesbians and homosexuals but the reality is that they are very much alive in this dear country of ours.

We seem to think that it is just a case of experimentation and peer pressure in secondary schools but it goes beyond that.

It is no more some boys in some boys school trying to feel each other up out of curiosity or the inability to snag some girl to practice on. Homosexuality is very much alive among our youth - from teens to middle age and across board from the ordinary man on the street to what is termed high society. That "big man" you know as a stalwart in society could be one.

There are so many closet homosexuals around not to mention the bisexuals. I find the bisexuals a lot more "dangerous" than their same sex counterparts because they "cross pollinate", flitting from women to men and back.

There are so many schools of thought on homosexuality, from the genetic angle to the religious. But the crux of the matter is that there are so many of them in this country. Whether we like it or not it has come to stay, be it genetic, peer pressure or the fact that it is fashionable now to indulge in this sexual pastime.

Some of us can puke all we like, be disgusted at the idea of being sodomised but at the end of the day it is someone's sexual preference and they have a right just like anybody else to practice adult sex. After all the heterosexuals also practice it so what do we call them too?

I will not indulge in it because my contention is the back passage was made for one thing only-to excrete waste matter! But hey, someone discovered it can also give the ultimate pleasure and so be it.

What is very important is that we recognise the fact that they exist and where HIV/AIDS is concerned they are accorded the same concerns, as they are also a high risk group. We can no longer bury our heads in the sand.

The biggest problem is the incidences of young boys being defiled and those who defile these boys should be brought to book. It is not always about love as some claim. Some men have been in love with every woman or man they've ever taken to bed.

Their love affair begins with an erection and ends with a climax and these young boys are certainly not loved. They get damaged in their and the trauma is horrendous leading to huge psychological problems.

funerals re-visited I would like to revisit the funeral syndrome again this week because I would like to share some harrowing details of a funeral I attended last week. We were all seated around the edges of this big park waiting for the bereaved to arrive. So in the interim we sat there watching people trickle in.

In trooped these three young women bedecked in black. All three had slits in their long skirts right up to their crotches. In fact we could see the colour of their panties, not to mention the huge expanse of thighs. Next came the kabas.

They had sewn the tops smaller than their bra sizes and very low-cut. Their boobs were spilling out on to their laps and huge boobs at that.

It was tacky, "tarty" and downright vulgar. The men had their tongues hanging out like puppies; the women were flabbergasted at this spectacle. I was disgusted.

They walked across the park to go and sit down and as they walked all you could see were these huge thighs wobbling along and not a pretty sight at all.

Their necks were adorned with gold necklaces that reminded me of Mr. T of the A-Team. They had gold bracelets and rings on their wrists and fingers so shiny and gaudy you needed sunglasses to look at them.

This is what funerals are all about these days. Just like everything else, we like to go over the top. rains & roads Since the rains started the roads that were patched have had a good thrashing and now huge craters are the end result.

Some of the roads have so many holes, cars are doing the twist to get round them. As quickly as they patch them, the holes come up again bigger than before. The places like in front of the GBC where they were causing a nuisance, have been patched so hapharzardly, the patches are like mini bumps and cars just bump along when they drive over.

The newly constructed roads have also had a bad tiff with the rain because they are looking the worse for wear. There are holes all over the place, soon to be craters if the authorities don't work on them pronto.

These roads cost a pretty penny to construct and I think the people who constructed the dodgy roads should be made to reconstruct them at their cost or forfeit the monies due them if they haven't been paid yet.

The rains have really shown up their dodgy work. Talking about roads, why do the road repairers, repair the roads during rush hour?

They cause traffic jams and don't care if the traffic is held up for hours. I don't care what the rational is behind this phenomenon but it isn't it funny when you get caught in this type of traffic jam. We have a habit of not anticipating problems until we are faced with them and then we ran helter-skelter looking for solutions.

Our culture of maintenance is zero and it cuts across board from individuals to businesses to government entities.

People rush to paint their houses when there is a death in the family but if they were maintaining the house the way it should be they wouldn't have to waste precious money painting it just for a funeral.

We rush to patch up roads when the rains come but not before, even though we know the rains will come. They say procrastination is the thief of time and we are it.