IDAHOT: WTF IS AN "LBGTIQ+ COMMUNITY"?
Sorry to break the fourth wall on this day of solidarity. But what LGBTIQ+ community? Where is this community? At UTAS during my BA I was the only one interested in a queer club. Seriously, it was just me and a guidance counselor sitting in a room. The elected head of the queer club never showed up. I met one gay guy at uni, and he was a self confessed cannibal wannabe. My experience of casual gay sex has made me have to harden my heart to NSA (no love/loveless) sex. My relationships last an hour or two. An overnight stay is as close to commitment and monogamy that I get. I can't even describe the heartbreaking soul aching loneliness of looking at other men's selfies on gay dating apps, night after night, month after month, and never meeting a guy to spend time with. If I cook for a man on a date it's like I'm doing something wrong. Is sharing a meal so strange? I'm not degrading the concept of IDAHOT. But as a Christian I think there is some problem with human nature which is not solved by grouping individuals with a spectrum of sexualities into a fictitious community. Community is common place so unless you call it an online community it doesn't make sense. Gay men especially do not gather in groups and feel ingroup solidarity. LGBTIQ+ groups are marred by incoherence, probably due to an honest lack of common ground. Gay people are 2% of the population. We are born randomly into different families, ethnicities, and cities. There is not one singular LGBTIQ+ narrative. I don't like having to explain the acronym and talk about communities because I am not an acronym or part of said invented community. When I meet people I would just like to talk about myself and be myself. And yes with so much paedophilia in the world today it may be wise to stop using a rainbow for the LGBTIQ+ cause. When I was 15 I thought I could be myself (wearing black listening to heavy metal) and support a broad LGBTIQ+ solidarity. But the older I get the less this alliance makes sense. And having lost a lot of ego, I think maybe an LGBTIQ+ identity is not the most attractive aspect of oneself to promote, maybe it is immodest and narcissistic, maybe self pride doesn't lead to happiness. Please permit me this dangerous idea.
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