I would like you to close your eyes and take a moment to imagine what it feels like to realise that there is something different about you. That a significant chunk of the world believes that there is something disgustingly wrong about you, something sinful and disgusting that should be discouraged at all costs. That millions and millions of people that you will never meet and will never speak to hate you for something unchangeable about yourself.
Imagine what it would feel like to be petrified that your parents, your siblings, your cousins, your grandparents will not love you anymore. Imagine that fear pressing into your chest choking your every word, every breath because what if they know? What if they find out? Imagine wondering how your peers will react, mentally keeping a tally of every person who has made a ‘that’s so gay’ joke, or any kind of offensive comment.
If you have never gone through this then you will never understand what it is like and have absolutely no right to pretend that you do. Try telling a 14 year old lesbian, shivering in a bus stop after her parents kicked her out, tears streaking her face, that you want your rights recognised. Try informing a 17 year …show more content…
The logical impossibility of the LGBT+ community ever outweighing and oppressing heterosexuals allows the concept of heterosexual pride to become a vessel of homophobia as straight pride proponents boast that they are within the known majority, and embodying a gloating decree of ‘normality’ in response to the LGBT+ pride which is all about celebrating identities scorned by a heteronormative society. Proclamations of ‘we are proud to be straight’ funnel into an implied ‘we are proud to be normal’. By promoting a Pride movement for the socially expected orientation these individuals establish a binary that positions the LGBT+ community as abnormal or
Imagine what it would feel like to be petrified that your parents, your siblings, your cousins, your grandparents will not love you anymore. Imagine that fear pressing into your chest choking your every word, every breath because what if they know? What if they find out? Imagine wondering how your peers will react, mentally keeping a tally of every person who has made a ‘that’s so gay’ joke, or any kind of offensive comment.
If you have never gone through this then you will never understand what it is like and have absolutely no right to pretend that you do. Try telling a 14 year old lesbian, shivering in a bus stop after her parents kicked her out, tears streaking her face, that you want your rights recognised. Try informing a 17 year …show more content…
The logical impossibility of the LGBT+ community ever outweighing and oppressing heterosexuals allows the concept of heterosexual pride to become a vessel of homophobia as straight pride proponents boast that they are within the known majority, and embodying a gloating decree of ‘normality’ in response to the LGBT+ pride which is all about celebrating identities scorned by a heteronormative society. Proclamations of ‘we are proud to be straight’ funnel into an implied ‘we are proud to be normal’. By promoting a Pride movement for the socially expected orientation these individuals establish a binary that positions the LGBT+ community as abnormal or