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've ever heard a joke, from among the many who have casually at family parties and business meetings, which talks about how a child comes shyly with his father and says, "Papa, I'm gay", to which Fr responds with a series of questions about whether the kid in question has an apartment in Condesa, a BMW car or studies in a university of very high prestige. Given the various rejections of the son, who attended a public university, he traveled by subway to wherever he goes and lives with his parents in a department of social interest, the father concludes flatly that their confused offspring is definitely not gay, but a regular homosexual .
've ever heard a joke, from among the many who have casually at family parties and business meetings, which talks about how a child comes shyly with his father and says, "Papa, I'm gay", to which Fr responds with a series of questions about whether the kid in question has an apartment in Condesa, a BMW car or studies in a university of very high prestige. Given the various rejections of the son, who attended a public university, he traveled by subway to wherever he goes and lives with his parents in a department of social interest, the father concludes flatly that their confused offspring is definitely not gay, but a regular homosexual .
Until recently, being gay was seen as socially sophisticated as gay, frivolous fashion trying to address with euphemisms everything related to a dissident sexuality, perception appeared the jokes in the media and wherever the issue out afloat. Who said gay, then took on the obligation to be as sophisticated and socially successful as it was the same word, and, as in the joke above, if you were not sufficiently "gay", according to the stereotype, you had no possibility to leave from a simple homosexual.
Today, being gay still involves the possibility of the above, but not exclusively. In fact, it happens now you can be homosexual, but never consider you gay, what is to be gay, then? We
from the beginning. One day, having not even reached at the age of puberty, you become aware that you feel more attracted to your classmates that your classmates from school, or, if you were a kid, more for them in their physical education uniforms for them wanting to play with you house. Gradually you become aware that this is not what is usually because you grew up under cover of a heterosexual parents and very close to people in heterosexual behavior. Reaches that point and suddenly you like the twenty: you are different.
going to grow and the awareness of that difference is becoming stronger, while listening to your mother talk about when you have your own children, when his son found a woman who wait at home or in your case, when her little get a man what love for a lifetime. We tell stories heterosexual heterosexual characters in heterosexual situations to learn how the world works: you get a sex partner other than your own, again, different, and make a family that was going to keep going to jealously guard or from within household, will be the cornerstone of a new social circle and preserve our traditions and our genes. Be proud of you.
Who would not want them to be proud of one?
But I like the other boys or other girls who ultimately have no sex than your own, and time passes and the conflict grows, until you have to choose. You have two possibilities, one can pretend that nothing happens, all this is transitory and over time, even longer, you will pass. Learn Not wanting both to fall in love with the one and not the other, or correct your affections to feel what you've been taught is right feel. Since nobody has to know, keep quiet and do exactly the opposite of what you feel is your desire to do. And finally, in front of your heterosexual behavior, your parents will smile to see in you what you always thought you were, as you repress your frustration with all this never would have wanted being and keep your homoeroticism in a permanent underground. You chose not to be gay.
The second option takes you to the contrary, ie assume that your feelings towards those who are of the same sex are clear, it is socially awkward, but so are, and decide to work in peace with the homoeroticism. It is also a difficult road because no one there to tell you how the world works, who you no advice or guidance to you throughout the process. Of being alone or lonely, start to make distance from people who ask you to heterosexual behavior and you approach to those who can understand how your feelings are expressed, in short, you discover that you do not need to be alone.
Habiendo aceptado amar a otros hombres o a otras mujeres, y renunciado a mucho de lo que implica ser heterosexual, encuentras a gente que también ama como tú lo haces, y que puede entregarse a personas de su mismo sexo con idéntica pasión. Te identificas con ellos y adoptas para ti ese estilo de vida gay, donde carece de importancia si eres una mujer que ama a otras mujeres o un hombre que se enamora de otros como él.
Esta posibilidad es, efectivamente, elegir ser gay, si bien jamás elegiste que te gustaran otros hombres u otras mujeres; y a partir de esa elección continúas construyéndote como un ser humano, integralmente, involucrando la importancia de tus afectos en tu proyecto de vida y recibiendo the support of others. To define you gay you can include others in the structure of your life who choose, including those at another time you waited a different form of love, but that's another decision that depends only on you.
Nobody can tell you which choice is better or which will guarantee happiness. There are no guarantees. But what is clear is that say gay is not a fad or obey try to be more sophisticated, being gay is a sense of belonging to something and have chosen to grow without denying your emotions or your need for love, an act of courage of finally, well can you feel fully proud.