Annie on my mind

It's raining, Annie...

So goes the opening line of a tender, bittersweet love story.

'Annie on my mind' by Nancy Garden is an intriguing tale of two young women who fall in love with each other. Liza Winthrop, a seventeen year old and wanna be architect meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY and their lives change for ever. In this compelling story Garden's life like characters succeed in reaching out to the readers - one could perceive their initial apprehension and confusion , their anger and helplessness and more than everything the magic of their innocent love.


There would be many books for teenagers on homosexuality, but AOMM is one what tells you what it truly feels like. Garden has a clear message - gay folks are just like you or me. They aren't sick or immoral, they fall in love just like straight folks and it's cruel to make fun of them or victimize them or exclude them.

Right after I completed AOMM, I came across the news on the Indian minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who derided homosexuality as an unnatural disease. Shame on you Mr Azad... For crying out loud, you are the health minister - I say it again the HEALTH minister of India. I could only hope that you change your appalling and grossly unscientific views and apologize to the LGBT community. My LGBT friends, forgive him for this man has no clue of what he's saying. This mist of bitterness and revulsion that enshrouds you is going to dissipate soon as more and more straight folks open up their minds and finally start thinking straight.