It's that fabulous time of year and I think a discussion about the current sexual revolution is due. 1st off, I don't celebrate Pride, but I wish a happy one to all that do. So, I'd like to go over different aspects of the LGBT situation, both positive and not so positive and get a variety of opinions, as well as open the floor for personal input. I'll start with some things I'm encouraged with:
-Same sex marriage is making progress. No one has a right to monopolize love and it's incredible such a basic human dignity is finally coming into being, if even as unavailable as it still is for so many.
-Non-hets have more visibility now more than ever and things are slowly but surely changing. In the West and Far East, most have the seeming luxury of not having to hide in the closet and live life as a lie out of fear.
-Non-heterosexual culture and identity is less and less being seen as an aberrant alternative to heterosexuality, but rather a thing that stands on its own, unique and with a future ahead of it. Non-heterosexuals have contributed much to this world and the more room we have to spread our wings and fly, the more we can do and create.
Now, for the other side of the coin:
-Sometimes I think the saturation of LGBT+ might be overboard, especially in relation to foreign and cultural politics. Just like with BLM, I've talked to a variety of foreigners, both straight and not that see such things as a kind of cultural battering ram that America and the wider West employ to obnoxious effect. While I absolutely support the progress of non-heterosexual acceptance, I think there should be alternatives to the heavy doses of rainbow flag carpet bombing.
-Speaking of which, I'm a bit turned off by the monopolization of non-heterosexuality by the LGBT+ movement. I'm not saying it shouldn't exist, it should, I'm just a little disappointed that it's become the de facto lens through which non-heterosexuality is primarily all lumped into, filtered through and represented by.
-Finally and most seriously, non-heterosexual health is nothing to be proud of. STD's are on the rise and have always been a deadly issue. Obviously, non-heterosexuals are at risk for mental health issues that leads to riskier behavior, but I think we also need to start addressing the other elephant in the room: promiscuity. This isn't a moral argument, but a practical one. We need to seriously take a look in the mirror and understand that what we do affects all of us and the LGBT+ shit is simply not tackling this effectively. There is a problem with sexual irresponsibility and combined with the additional pressures of being non-heterosexual, we are facing a health crisis and I adamantly protest how lightly it's being treated. The LGBT movement is an utter failure in this regard and homophobes laugh and mock us for an unfortunate truth about the collective state of our sexual health. This needs to be tackled NOW and with aggression.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/0 ... i-men.html
https://dph.georgia.gov/std-prevention- ... al-and-msm
https://sdtreatmentcenter.com/diseases- ... community/
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectious ... stds/79098
https://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/STD.htm
With all of that said....I just want to say I'm proud to be a bisexual man. When I first accepted who I was, I wasn't proud of it. I didn't see a reason to be, but I've come to see that there is. I find something inherently meritorious about being open enough to appreciate both the beauty of a woman and the handsomeness of a man and I find comfort in not having my range of possible affection constrained to a single gender. I like feeling balanced by being in touch with both my masculine and feminine aspects; I think it makes me a more well rounded person. I'm comfortable with my masculinity and I don't have to larp or overcompensate. And of course, if I wasn't bi, I wouldn't be who I am and I like who I am. I didn't always have the courage to embrace who I was and it caused me years of pain, but ever since I accepted myself, I got my shit together and life is only getting better and better. I'm proud of who I am and proud of where I'm going.
