Gay Amendment.
I thought a lot last night about my Gay post. I know I haven't written it very well, but it's mostly because I'm just not sure how to express it all.
I saw this article in the Danish paper Politiken the other day, and it was just the picture that got to me. That people can be so fucking close minded, and cruel. It made me sad. Then I thought about how I can walk through London, holding hands with my girfriend, without worrying, when in Riga (and other places of course), shit like that goes on.
Was it marches that made it acceptable in London? Was it things like World Out Games? Or was it just time? Was it education? What was it?? If it was marches, and demonstrations to show people that homosexual people are just like everyone else, then that's great. But I wonder when is the time to stop marching? Should you ever? I just don't know.
I support gay rights, of course I do. I want to marry my woman, I want to have babies with her, and I want all the other 'rights' that straight couples have. Would I march for them? Yeah, I probably would. Do I attend Gay Pride? No. Why? Hmmm. I think it's because it's OK to be gay where I live. I don't like putting myself in those surroundings (I know I'm generalising here, but just bear with me) as I don't feel so comfortable in it. I feel like it's a...parade, in the boastful kind of way. Everyone expects it to be a party - it's even called Mardi Gras in the UK (at least, it used to be. I've not been there for years). Why is that? Gay = party? I don't want that attachment. I don't want people to have certain images of me in their head jsut because I have a girlfriend. I want people to know me for me, not because of dykes on bikes or half-naked men grinding to techno on the back of a lorry. Again - generalising, but alas, I do think that the vast majority of people have this impression of homosexuals, which is, as I did say in my Gay entry, the stereotypical 'lesbian', and the flamboyant, feminine 'gay'.
I guess I take the view that in order to stop this stereotyping, and the use of the word 'gay' in an 'offensive' way, then maybe the differentiation should stop somewhere. God. I'm talking in circles. I digging myself in to holes.
Shit. I don't know.
Education. Realisation. Acceptance. Marches. Pride. Festivals. I don't know. This is a complicated issue for me, but this will be the last post on the subject for a while. I think I've gone on for long enough.
On a whole other note, I found I already had a hit counter that only I could see, and I had the grand total of 273 visits to my blog. Goodness me! At least 50 of those can't have been me.
I saw this article in the Danish paper Politiken the other day, and it was just the picture that got to me. That people can be so fucking close minded, and cruel. It made me sad. Then I thought about how I can walk through London, holding hands with my girfriend, without worrying, when in Riga (and other places of course), shit like that goes on.
Was it marches that made it acceptable in London? Was it things like World Out Games? Or was it just time? Was it education? What was it?? If it was marches, and demonstrations to show people that homosexual people are just like everyone else, then that's great. But I wonder when is the time to stop marching? Should you ever? I just don't know.
I support gay rights, of course I do. I want to marry my woman, I want to have babies with her, and I want all the other 'rights' that straight couples have. Would I march for them? Yeah, I probably would. Do I attend Gay Pride? No. Why? Hmmm. I think it's because it's OK to be gay where I live. I don't like putting myself in those surroundings (I know I'm generalising here, but just bear with me) as I don't feel so comfortable in it. I feel like it's a...parade, in the boastful kind of way. Everyone expects it to be a party - it's even called Mardi Gras in the UK (at least, it used to be. I've not been there for years). Why is that? Gay = party? I don't want that attachment. I don't want people to have certain images of me in their head jsut because I have a girlfriend. I want people to know me for me, not because of dykes on bikes or half-naked men grinding to techno on the back of a lorry. Again - generalising, but alas, I do think that the vast majority of people have this impression of homosexuals, which is, as I did say in my Gay entry, the stereotypical 'lesbian', and the flamboyant, feminine 'gay'.
I guess I take the view that in order to stop this stereotyping, and the use of the word 'gay' in an 'offensive' way, then maybe the differentiation should stop somewhere. God. I'm talking in circles. I digging myself in to holes.
Shit. I don't know.
Education. Realisation. Acceptance. Marches. Pride. Festivals. I don't know. This is a complicated issue for me, but this will be the last post on the subject for a while. I think I've gone on for long enough.
On a whole other note, I found I already had a hit counter that only I could see, and I had the grand total of 273 visits to my blog. Goodness me! At least 50 of those can't have been me.