Tuesday, 15 January 2008

the unbearable lightness of being...

...gay. Honestly, I've always wondered why the absolute adversary. When I was younger and when AIDS was just made known to the layman, the H word was totally taboo. It was a time when people would shush you up before you even try to ask "what's that?" or simply just frown upon your sharing of drinks or food and if you challenge the adults with a "why not?", you'll most probably get dagger stares but an inability to offer a reasonable explanation to fulfill your 15-year-old inquisitive mind.

Of course, being Christian, my un-Christ-like thoughts would come under fire by the staunch-ies, but with all due respect, I'm in doubt the queers asked to be queer; there's too much to deal with being queer in our society. I can't help but wonder if The Church is against homosexuality, then why are these people created like that? Surely they can't have chosen to defy the biblical creationism theory based on their own strength, can they?

Anyway, religion aside, even to this day, there are more than many who would frown upon the issue of [somebody] being gay and/ or lesbian. One example is the outburst against the repealed Section 377A of the Penal Code with arguments stating the decriminalisation of homosexuality would result in the breakdown of the family unit, compromise our society's position on procreation and lead to future undesirable scenarios such as the approval of bestiality and paedophilia!

Whoa! Correct me if you think I'm wrong - so what these people are saying is that by declaring homosexuality lawful, we're all headed towards doom because we will suddenly liberate to become gay and mess up our society's perception on the family unit and proliferate beastly and warped behaviour?!! Come on... For one, I will always be heterosexual whether or not the penal code has been amended.

Many a times, I can't understand why some [straight] people snigger when they see effeminate men or when their so-called neanderthal nature senses that the other male in the vicinity is not one of his kind, while making others endure their oblivious public display of affection in public spaces. Which is worse? You tell me...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Whats worse?? I tell you whats worse.

To sleep in the same room with your brother for 25 years only to find out he is gay...and you were clueless all along!