To that love which
does not
discriminate
Photograhy by Dirk Kuijt
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“Y
OU KNOW, GAY, LESBIAN,
BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER -
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.”
-JUDITH LIGHT
With special reference to this quote by Light,
the American actress, I would like to cast
some light on the double standards of those
human beings, who, at one level claim to be
the believers of equality and on the other
hand discriminate love on the basis of gender.
We know ‘like poles repel’ but, duhh?? We’re
talking about humans, not magnets. What
book limits love to gender? Who made this
rule that only a man and a woman can tie
knots?
that such couples cannot procreate, but they
can raise a family for sure, isn’t it?
It is high time we stop criticizing them and
start treating them as normal human beings
and not like some “unnatural beings”. Once,
POPE FRANCIS said, “If someone is gay and
he searches for the Lord and has good will,
who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalize
people for this. They must be integrated into
society.”
Many attempts to put an end to this kind of
discrimination have been made by the logical
thinkers of the society and one such attempt
gave birth to the LGBT community.
The problem which our not-so-modern world
is facing these days is that they are not ready
to accept such “unnatural relationships”. We
are still orthodox enough to not only criticize,
but also, subjugate and make fun of people
who do not discriminate in love. We raise
arguments like ‘What will the society say?’,
‘Why can’t you marry a woman just like other
men do, or vise versa?’ or ‘Do you not fear
god?’ As per Wikipedia, The LGBT community or
GLBT community, also referred to as the gay
community, is a loosely defined grouping of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
people. This community generally celebrates
pride, diversity, individuality and sexuality. It
focuses on making people realize that they are
no less human than the rest of the human
population of the world and that they too
have emotions and feel the need to be loved.
Others might ask why gay marriage should be
legalized, but my question is this: why should
other people be able to choose who marries
whom? Nobody cares if a man and a woman
decide to get married and raise a family but
all eyebrows are raised when we change the
scenario a little bit. If a man and a man, or a
woman and a woman, decide to get married,
why does such chaos start surfacing? It is true Why are we still against gay, lesbian, bisexual
or even transgender marriages? Well, even if
you are not entirely in support of gay
marriages, this adorable photoshoot of a gay
couple- Earnst and Jesper- will melt your
heart for sure. Just have a look at these
amazing photographs. We bet you’ll love
those and we would urge you all to carry this
message forward that they are not unnatural
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because we are the ones promoting this
heteronormative assumption forgetting that
there is a gap between the males and females
which is occupied by these liminal human
being who deserve to live respectfully. Their
love is as sacred and pure as ours and so is
their soul.
‘QUEER’ Is Strange.
They Are Not Strange.
They’re As Humans As We Are.
So, They Are Not Queer.’
So, I would like to end this story with a
powerful quote by Judith Butler in his book
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the
Subversion of identity. Butler says, “Gender is
a choice, or gender is a role, or gender is a
construction that one puts on as one puts on
clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’
who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to
the wardrobe of gender and decides with
deliberation which gender it will be today.”
Keep it in mind that gender is not an identity
of an individual and certainly not something
to discriminate people on its basis because
gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual- they are
not ‘queer people’ . They are just ‘PEOPLE’.
Meenal Singh
[email protected]
Meenal Singh is an undergraduate
student of Miranda House, University
of Delhi. She aspires to be a lecturer in
English Literature. Meenal wishes to fight
for the equality of women worldwide
through the power of her words.