Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Seares: ‘Harassing’ Gen/Jan By Pachico A. Seares News Sense
JAN-JAN” is Genaro Jorolan, an adult homosexual who complained that Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center staffers ridiculed him while they removed a body spray canister stuck into his anus by a male lover.
A video clip publicizing worldwide a private hospital’s “procedure” violated his privacy, Gen/Jan alleged.
He wasn’t raped. When admitted to the hospital he himself said injury was “self-inflicted.” He didn’t cry rape before state
probers. He didn’t identify the person who caused the forcible entry, nor condemn the perp’s crime or liability.
If he shrouds his face, must his name be covered as well? He names doctors and nurses whose careers face risk of ruin and yet wants his and his sex partner’s names kept secret.
He’s demanding P5 million damages as he whines about being tagged by a civil-registered name. What reputation is he claiming to have been so dirtied that only a lot of cash can make clean again?
H word
And here comes the H word from some Gen/Jan fans: Is media, like the Catholic Church position, “harassing” him because he’s homosexual?
Word experts say “gay” is limited to persons having “erotic or affectional preferences” for members of their own sex while
“homosexual” refers to those who actually engage in sexual activity with members of their own sex.
In that strict sense, Gen/Jan would be homosexual, not gay. Loosely though, one word is used for the other. And when Gen/Jan contracted the male lover’s service, and as things turned out, word usage wasn’t the problem.
Media have generally rooted for Gen/Jan but full disclosure is part of the cost of the private sin he himself made public.
