was brilliant. An excellent production. I nearly teared once or twice. And also when the dancers (mostly men) jumped up in the air and did a full split on the ground. Ouch! But that gave me some inspiration to stretch a bit more. Just not yoga. Blah.
Splits aside, a transgender and his homosexual partner who had been together for 20 years faced a major hurdle in their relationship when their son decided that he wanted to marry a girl whose father was an anti-homosexual Ex-MP.Pressured by his son, the father decided to get his son's natural mother to pose as his mother. It's sad for the stepmom, the transgendered woman. Of course she feels less, smaller, insignificant, that "face" or any other thing for that matter, could take that status away from her.
I think society is not ready to accept transgendered people and I do think that transgendered people are very brave. They have to face bullies all their lives, and still get ostracised, sometimes even by their own partners. Yet I find that that perhaps makes it easier for them to come out. They have already faced dirty looks and bullying all their life. It's like a few steps to take to totally come out.I think it gets increasingly difficult for "straight -acting/looking" men and women to come out totally for that same reason. Imagine the number of steps they have to clear!
I reckon a relationship with one partner who's fully out and one partner who's not would be difficult. I know because I had experienced that before in my last relationship. I also wondered about my future relationship. It might be easy to hide our identities from those who are supposedly closest to us-our family for the next few months or even years. But for how long before we get tired of hiding? And what if after being together for 20 years, one partner decided to come out totally and one still wants to remain in the closet. So complex. But God says let tomorrow worry on its own. He will take care of everything. Amen.
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Oh, now I see why you asked me about how out I am. :) It took me many years to reach the point where I voluntarily came out to my parents...like only recently because i didn't want them to hear about the website from anyone else. And it was the hardest thing i have ever done!
When i came out to them 10 years ago, it was kind of a forced situation. They kinda guessed and i had to explain it to them.
As you say (actually as Jesus says), tomorrow will worry about itself. When it's the right time, you will know and things will fall in place. :)
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