♠ LGBTQ+ community and LOVE♠
Written by- khushi_sri
𝓦𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭,
𝓦𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻.
𝓨𝓮𝓽 𝔀𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮,
𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓮𝔂𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓵𝓵.
Love- is a very beautiful emotion. It's something that even words aren't enough to describe. Love gives peace, a feeling of belonging, love is the realisation that they'll be with you in your darkest times. It's unconditional, unbounded and know only one thing, us over me.
India, as an independent and sovereign nation, has given its citizens the freedom to choose what they eat, what they wear, etc. But are we really free to say that we are in love with a person from the same sex? I guess not. Whenever it comes to same sex relationships, we tend to side eye people who follow the ideology. Many people scrunch up their noses and furrow their brows when they hear something like this- 'so and so girl is in love with so and so girl' or 'this boy loves that boy', and I guess there might be a few out there reading this blog who would be doing the same. Why is this so? Why in a country where people are entitled to do anything and everything that they want to, we tend to look down upon people who are in a same sex relationship?
In a landmark verdict on 6th September, 2018, the apex court of our country, the Supreme Court, did away with the Section 377 stating that 'Section 377 is unconstitutional and infringed on the fundamental rights to autonomy, intimacy and identity', thus decriminalizing gay sex. But even after this huge step by the Supreme Court, social taboo still sticks to it. People, especially from rural areas, engage in illegal practices like 'conversion therapies' to 'straight' the people who identify themselves as homosexuals, in a way, trying to change their sexual orientation. It's cruel, besides being illegal, and it needs to stop.
Though same sex relationships are now decriminalized, same sex marriage still seems to be a far fetched idea. Leave alone marriage, LGBTQ people are still scared to come out and share about their choices because of the fear of what the people around them would say. They are still afraid whether their family would accept them or not because of this sentence-question of 'Log kya kahenge?' Or 'Log kya sochenge?' Believe it or not, familial pressure is much more toxic than societal pressure, because here you expect that it doesn't matter whether the society accepts you or not, your family would do. But when this hope is crushed, it leads to more grave consequences. Often times,we read in newspapers about family members disowning, or more worse, killing their own blood because they identified themselves as a part of the LGBTQ COMMUNITY.
Actually this is nothing. Should I tell you one more fact, something we should be ashamed of ? Most people use words like 'gay' and 'lesbian' as profanities (I'm saying this with personal experience). Though used playfully, it is really derogatory. This trend of using such terms as cuss words really represents the level of our mindset. It showcases that no matter whether we reach the Moon or Mars, we still have a long way to go for upgrading our mindsets that have long stated that 'Love can thrive only between two individuals of the opposite genders'.
So now what we really need to do? We need to respect them and their choices just like we would do with others. Would you like it, nah, even stand it when somebody points you out for your choices and humiliate you? I guess you won't. The same applies to these people also. God has made us all equal and unique at the same time. As equals, we need to respect them and acknowledge them for who they are and not force them to abide by the so-called 'societal norms'. They're humans, and that's enough. And as unique entities, we need to understand that everyone has their own preferences and personal choices. We are no one to judge them as to what they should choose and why their own natural choices are invalid.
Now a message to all the people reading this blog from my side (personally). To the people who already support the community- Kudos to you! And thank you! I personally have huge amount of respect for you guys. And to the ones who hate (or dislike them), please, please, don't disrespect them. If you don't like them for whatsoever reason, don't. No one is forcing you to. If you don't want to make contact with them even after reading this message that I'm trying to convey through this blog, don't. But at least don't spread hate. That's the last thing people would want. Don't roam around bad mouthing them about their choices. It's natural, and nobody can change it.
With these thoughts and a four-line poem, I'll take your leave now.
𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓮𝓪𝓷,
𝓘𝓽 𝓭𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮.
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓮𝓽 𝔀𝓮'𝓻𝓮 𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓵𝓮𝓼,
𝓣𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓪𝓻𝓮.
Love and hugs.
⚫️⚜️⚫️⚜️⚫️⚜️⚫️⚜️⚫️⚜️⚫
November 7, 2020 (Saturday)
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