Imagine yourself as any member of LGBTQ+.
You could be a forty-six man from Brisbane, loves to fish, visits his mother every weekend, and teaches English Literature in a local university. His husband works in a bank downtown and during the December heat, they enjoy the cooler weather of the Northern Hemisphere, traveling to places like Armenia, Portugal, Tibet. He has stage two prostate cancer.
You could be a teenage girl, living in Iraq. She loves reading cheesy love stories and dancing to songs on the radio, while mouthing every word to her favorite song. Her two sisters and three brothers annoy and adore her, she teaches them the words to the songs she loves and even sneaks them sweets before dinner. She fears the possibility that she will be kicked out of her own house if her parents find out that she's dating the next door neighbor's eldest daughter.
You could be sixty-one year old woman who always wanted to be a man. She was an art curator and now she's retired and lives in the same house she grew up in. She collects reader's digest magazines and has over a thousand copies haphazardly around her semi- detached. She loves her husband but she envies the ability to wear a polo t-shirts to every occasions. She does not have anyone to talk to about her true feelings.
Yeah we live different lives, but we all share the same struggles. We cannot define each other for what we appear to lack, seem to have. Not just us. We all have a struggle and they are all equally real.
You should know by now,
Ez
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