Sep 19, 2010

Discrimination, a never ending matter


We're talking about discrimination almost all the time. There are funding to fight against it, there are TV and radio shows in which a lot of people talk about it; just talk. It's so present and usual that almost seem to be a natural state. We can exist but we can't be ourselves, we have freedom but we can't express it.
That's how normality looks like in Romania for a gay person that lives it and accepts it. We can say out loud that we are gay. We'll make people feel pity or compassionate, we could awake animal instincts in others or we could awake ourselves all alone.

Maybe, generally speaking, the Romanian LGBT community is accepted in silence, with closed fists but if you look deep inside, at the details, you'll see that things are not like that.
Some people couldn't or wouldn't accept that we are normal people (because of religious beliefs or other indoctrinators).
Example 1: A Drag queen goes to a store to buy something. Definitely, he will be served but looked like a freak of nature, in total silence and with signs behind him. I can't guarantee that the special treatment will repeat outside, on the street, where he risks to be beaten in every moment.
Example 2: A gay or lesbian couple searching to rent a home. If they admit their love then their chances are almost zero. If not, they should invent lies and answer allusive questions like "But why two men/women want to live in the same house?" or "How will you sleep?" or many other intimacy abuses.
And the examples can go on...
Unfortunately, discrimination has deep roots in everyone of us. If it's not of sexual matters, it could be social. Reasons to discriminate someone are easy to find anytime.
What is to be done? Maybe if everything that's made to stop discrimination would be made entirely, not only at a half, then maybe we would talk less about violence against LGBT community and more about normality
Reading what I wrote upwards, I realized that I did nothing else but to talk about a best selling matter, with no real results. But maybe talking about it, slowly, slowly, something will happen or somebody will realize that what he lives right now, here, in Romania, is not a normality.

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