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Some random thoughts about the gay condition
- Sartre once said that the society offers gay people two choices.
- The first is to live in a lie, withhold your sexuality and therefore deny your true self.
- The other is to assume who you are, thus reveal that your gay, but take the risk that the society might eventually curtail you to your sexuality.
- Hence, for Sartre, around 1950, gay people had no real choice.
- It sad to see that things did not change that much, since then.
- Of course, we have made progress...
- Here in France, for instance same-sex mariage is legal since 2013...
- And the law tends to promote acceptance towards the LGBTQ+ people...
- (I also think that theses are a lot of letters :p)...
- However when it comes to discuss about the global mindset a lot of bigotry remains.
- And even though everyone does not think that way, the lecture of Sartre is still relevant.
- As you decide to coming out, a large majority of people, even those who are tolerant, will refer at you through your sexuality.
- Since I decide to accept who I am, I have noticed two behaviors.
- One consist in, avoid the reality, talk to me like a was a straight person.
- And somehow show me that I'm worth talking to at the very condition that even though I don't, I pretend to like women.
- The other, is the people that accept you only if you match their expectations, if you act like the gay they have seen in Glee and so on.
- Nevertheless, I have met some wonderful people, that understand and take in consideration in the way they behave that being gay does not define who you are, not by an inch.
- Ultimately being gay in 2017, mostly means that you will always have to strive to be fully recognize...
- But it's also means that you are part of an amazing community, and whatever how harsh things might seem sometime, you are never completely alone.
- OrpheosJanuary 2017Vota ara!
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