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2002-04-26 - 12:45 a.m.
how can I be brave for just being me?
Today Peter M. (instructor) called me brave. He said he looked at my closet confessional and that it was good and then said something like congratulations on your bravery. That's rather funny, he thinks I'm brave just because I want to live my life in the open. He wasn't congratulating me on a job well done or calling me brave becaues of some heroic deed, just because I don't want to live a lie, I just want to be me and be openly lesbian. Though it is nice he thinks I'm brave for wanting to do so, it's strange to think that because it would be the same as saying he's brave because he's Peter and because he wants to teach. I don't see any real act of bravery in that nor do I in me by wanting to be out.

Even a nice comment like that makes homosexuality seem unnatural and in need of recognition, whether good or bad. If people didn't think being openly gay was a big deal either as you're brave or you're abnormal then it wouldn't be seen as or treated as anything different. Straight people aren't congratulated on their bravery for living a straight life so gay people shouldn't be either. It's just who we are - gay, straight, bi - there is no bravery in living as such. How can a person be brave for just being themself? I don't know. I'm just looking too much into this, it was a really nice comment for him to make. I just don't think I should be seen as brave for what I want to do, that's all.
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