Bi-discrimination
( Column # 1 published in 2008 to the late portal Ekovoces News )
She sat in the back of the room. When he saw enter the exhibitor and greet with a "lesbian, how they" got up, took her purse and left the room, crumpling the invitation he had received. Disappointed, he realized that not belong there and obviously the owner of the invitation "meeting of lesbians and bisexuals" over a word.
few months ago I was in a meeting convened by an international activist for the rights of the LGBT community and raised my dismay at the double discrimination against bisexuals by both those heterosexuals who can not conceive a relationship outside the one between a man and a woman, as those gays who believe that bisexuals are a "permanent" or "chameleons" incapable of taking an obvious stereotypes homosexuality or even worse, which claim to have a "double standard" that "are infidels because they have to have a couple of each sex", etc.
Attending that meeting was very interesting because I could hear some of the "reasons" which is believed to exist - what I call - the bidiscriminación not only in Peru but throughout Latin America. The main argument was that bisexuals do not go, not the "war footing" for their rights because they prefer to stay out of the situation or hiding in the closet, an argument made on the basis of the apparent absence of a bisexual group, a voice that comes out to claim-fight-go by this group. This hypothesis - that may be true - says a bigger problem, which I think is the main reason for the lack or invalidity of people with this sexual orientation within communities: The lack of identification of bisexuals with existing LGBT groups, which, in most cases, despite having clear guidelines inclusive explicitly segregated groups in their actions. Nobody likes to be in a meeting to be teased, to feel discriminated with comments, to feel out of place with a bow or unique words. Not too much sensitivity, but an obvious outrage. How can "push" to come out if this push you fall off a cliff even worse? Themselves visible in a heteronormative society always has consequences, there is always a price to pay either with family, friends, work, etc, therefore, is amazing, outrageous and disappointing that is also discrimination, invisibility and segregation within the same institutions that promote equality for the LGBT community. A clear case of bisexual invibisibilización was recently in Lima. Was launched in December a campaign for equality policy in which the documentation included both lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual, but none of the pieces displayed include this latest advertising sexual orientation, in fact the word "bisexual "was largely absent in the designs.
Among other arguments that were discussed at the meeting, said many homosexuals go through such a period of bisexuality before gay and clearly assumed that many bisexuals are "heterosexual flexible" relations using the same sex to experiment with their own sexuality. Well for those people, but they can not be considered bisexual. Bisexuals assumed as such recognize that they are capable of feeling attraction and establish a relationship (love, sex) with persons of the same or different sex. Not a comfortable position as many believe. Why not think about them before thinking of stereotypes or other realities? Why not take into account those people who do come out, those who choose not to repress their sexuality because they know that love, love and experience pleasure beyond a body, assumed bisexuality as an identity and not as a step to another reality.
Bisexuality is a sexual orientation should be respected. Can not ask for respect for sexual orientation hegemonic (heterosexual) if this does not begin at home. Can not make the LGBT movement in Peru and Latin America grow and become strong if it begins to divide and differentiate within the group. You can not create documents that are beautiful and inclusive because discriminatory actions and exclusive. It must begin with mutual respect, by working together, to open one's mind before opening the others, to dismiss stereotypes and to see other realities, to see people. Let us help eradicate homophobia, but also the biphobia. Finally, it is imperative to recognize and pay attention, the acronym LGBT and LGBT are really no permanent LGT and those who wander around like a letter left over every word.
Hello, Goodbye
few months ago I was in a meeting convened by an international activist for the rights of the LGBT community and raised my dismay at the double discrimination against bisexuals by both those heterosexuals who can not conceive a relationship outside the one between a man and a woman, as those gays who believe that bisexuals are a "permanent" or "chameleons" incapable of taking an obvious stereotypes homosexuality or even worse, which claim to have a "double standard" that "are infidels because they have to have a couple of each sex", etc.
Attending that meeting was very interesting because I could hear some of the "reasons" which is believed to exist - what I call - the bidiscriminación not only in Peru but throughout Latin America. The main argument was that bisexuals do not go, not the "war footing" for their rights because they prefer to stay out of the situation or hiding in the closet, an argument made on the basis of the apparent absence of a bisexual group, a voice that comes out to claim-fight-go by this group. This hypothesis - that may be true - says a bigger problem, which I think is the main reason for the lack or invalidity of people with this sexual orientation within communities: The lack of identification of bisexuals with existing LGBT groups, which, in most cases, despite having clear guidelines inclusive explicitly segregated groups in their actions. Nobody likes to be in a meeting to be teased, to feel discriminated with comments, to feel out of place with a bow or unique words. Not too much sensitivity, but an obvious outrage. How can "push" to come out if this push you fall off a cliff even worse? Themselves visible in a heteronormative society always has consequences, there is always a price to pay either with family, friends, work, etc, therefore, is amazing, outrageous and disappointing that is also discrimination, invisibility and segregation within the same institutions that promote equality for the LGBT community. A clear case of bisexual invibisibilización was recently in Lima. Was launched in December a campaign for equality policy in which the documentation included both lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual, but none of the pieces displayed include this latest advertising sexual orientation, in fact the word "bisexual "was largely absent in the designs.
Among other arguments that were discussed at the meeting, said many homosexuals go through such a period of bisexuality before gay and clearly assumed that many bisexuals are "heterosexual flexible" relations using the same sex to experiment with their own sexuality. Well for those people, but they can not be considered bisexual. Bisexuals assumed as such recognize that they are capable of feeling attraction and establish a relationship (love, sex) with persons of the same or different sex. Not a comfortable position as many believe. Why not think about them before thinking of stereotypes or other realities? Why not take into account those people who do come out, those who choose not to repress their sexuality because they know that love, love and experience pleasure beyond a body, assumed bisexuality as an identity and not as a step to another reality.
Bisexuality is a sexual orientation should be respected. Can not ask for respect for sexual orientation hegemonic (heterosexual) if this does not begin at home. Can not make the LGBT movement in Peru and Latin America grow and become strong if it begins to divide and differentiate within the group. You can not create documents that are beautiful and inclusive because discriminatory actions and exclusive. It must begin with mutual respect, by working together, to open one's mind before opening the others, to dismiss stereotypes and to see other realities, to see people. Let us help eradicate homophobia, but also the biphobia. Finally, it is imperative to recognize and pay attention, the acronym LGBT and LGBT are really no permanent LGT and those who wander around like a letter left over every word.
Hello, Goodbye
0 comments:
Post a Comment