2011: A good year to be gay

[kris burns]

Just an interesting article I came across...

2011: A good year to be gay | World news | guardian.co.uk

[Ridiculous]

I think a more accurate title for that article is "2011: The best year so far to be gay," because for most it certainly isn't as good as being straight, and for a few it is worse than it was previously (e.g. Russia, Nigeria).

[Doctor Faustus]

^ What Ridiculous said.

As we were photographing this year's "Out 100", one of those small internet anecdotes that suddenly go viral came to my notice. It was a conversation between a mother and her six-year old son about the TV show "Glee" that had been posted on her Tumblr account, and it went like this:

'"Mommy, Kurt and Blaine are boyfriends."

"Yes, they are," I affirm.

"They don't like kissing girls. They just kiss boys."

"That's true."

"Mommy, they are just like me."

"That's great, baby. You know I love you no matter what?"

"I know…" I could hear him rolling his eyes at me."'

I find myself thinking about that conversation a lot, and how much it would have meant to me growing up to have role models that offered a template for what I might expect from life. And what it might have meant for the straight kids around me to see homosexuality not as something strange and peculiar, but as something familiar and equal. That six-year-old boy might grow up to be gay, or he might grow up to be straight. Either way, he will hopefully grow up without ever thinking it necessary to emphasise the distinction. Then we can truly talk about post-gay.

Good ending.

[No One]

I really liked that article. I think i may just send it to some friends.