3/14/2021 I don't understand how this misogyny, this homophobia can be so open in what should be our communityRead Now I'm a lesbian. There's always a distance, a separation between me and people who are attracted to members of the opposite sex. I can never relate. We don't have the same preoccupations. So I was looking for community, for people who could understand that. I had recently moved to a different country, so a completely new life, though we shared a language (English is not my mother tongue).
I only dipped my toes in the "lgbtq+ community". I hoped to meet other same-sex attracted people in the "lgbtq+" club at my new university. It was not a community. There were some gay men and some lesbians, but there were also men who told me to my face that they were lesbians. That I should "be open to penis". That I was a bad person for being a lesbian. I didn't stay. The other lesbians looked uncomfortable too. Some stayed, I guess the loneliness was too strong. Some didn't come back either. I don't understand how this misogyny, this homophobia can be so open in what should be our community. But instead it's just a hate-the-gays-and-the-lesbians fest and if you don't join, you're hated on too. Comments are closed.
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