Is being Gay a Disability? #discrimination #gay #gender #society

It is no secret that my partner is deaf! When we are in a new surrounding, like a shop or meeting people for the first time, he says "I am deaf." For no other reason, than to bring to their attention, that there may be some differences in communication.  Never once have I heard him say "Hi, I'm deaf and gay." 

Quite often, we the gay people of this world, confuse others as to our birth right.  Yes, we were born this way!  We are not missing any parts for our bodily functions.  We are all in tact.  As far as I, and many others see it, it is just a descriptive adjective to our human status.  It is like we are people who happen to be gay. Like women, who are people, happen to be women.  Like my partner, he is a person that happens to be Asian.  We are all humans with the different description to our make up.  Each and every person on this earth has a description as to who we are.  We just want to be equal on the playing field of life.  No discrimination as to our sex, our colour or our religion.  We breathe, we have skin, we have emotions, we are all human and equal. 
 
I believe that for most, we just want to live our lives as normally as possible.  We don't need to be living in a commune of like minded people.  We want to live in a fully integrated society that sees and has no barriers. As for our descriptions, that is just a cover page to our life, and their are many varied and different novels in the world libraries.  Each book brings a different hue to the delicate weave of the fabric of society.  It  just happens that our thread is the colour of the rainbow.  The rich threads of each and every one of us when interwoven can make the most glorious of fabrics. 
 
There will always be writers clubs, artist gatherings, ethnic clubs, gay bars, women's and men's clubs, tennis clubs, bear clubs.  These clubs are there for those who have common interests so they can enjoy like minded activities. But when these institutions are closed and the activities over, we should be able to go to a home that is not segregated as to our individual lifestyles.  Surely, it would be better to look out our front doors and see that everyone is equal. That there is no difference to any of us, at the end of the day.  We don't have to enter a room and say "Hi I'm Gay". "Hi I'm a female!". There are very few with whom we cannot communicate. If we have to walk in and say "Hi I am gay!", so they feel they know how to communicate with me, then I should just walk past, not even bother, because those people are the bigots of the world.  Another descriptive word for humans, and in that case, they should be segregated like those before us.  

Quite often, when we are fighting for a cause we forget that there are others who are our allies. That we are preaching to, and sometimes alienating, the converted who believe in the same things that we strive for. They just happen to be of a different colour thread to ours. Whether it be the Women's Movement, the Gay Movement, or an Ethnic cause we all have common beliefs and goals.  If we are able to harness all of these goals and beliefs to a common cause, how powerful a force would that be and what a truly beautiful fabric would we weave?

Each and everyone of us is specially gifted. We are not disabled.  We are individual threads to the fabric of life.  We are only handicapped if we allow others, and ourselves, to believe that we are not equal.

Let our descriptive characters be only part of our overall lives.  We don't need to walk into a room and say - I am a gay human; I am a female human; I am a coloured human; I am a artist human.  Soon they will simply be descriptive names for the various clubs that we belong to for our collective get togethers, or better still relegated to the heap if extinct society taboos and attitudes. 

This is my goal anyway.

Cheers!

Bitches Coz

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