4 Reasons For You To Come Out Of Your Closet

It’s been a week since same sex marriage has been legalized in all 50 states of the US and being an avid supporter of LGBT rights I too have used the rainbow filter on my facebook profile picture! I mean how far can I really go? It’s still a criminal offence in India! However there’s hope for sure: most Indians have this weird habit of aping the west.

 

I know lots of people who (literally) shudder at the very mention of same sex couples. Others don’t tremble but are either equally uncomfortable or just plain stubborn. They have shut themselves inside ancient closets which are constricting their minds and in the process asphyxiating the people with other sexual orientations. I firmly believe that these biased friends of mine are the ones who actually need to “come out” of their closets and embrace the world with an open mind and stop imposing their views on others. To those friends of mine who are still struggling to accept these changes, I promise you, we won’t judge you the way you judged us. We won’t try to change you, the way you wanted to change us. You are important to us and being accepted by you really matters to us.

Here are some common arguments that people against marriage equality use. These arguments are simply baseless and illogical. I’ll tell you how:

1. Being gay is not natural: You know what’s not natural? The house that you live in, the clothes that you wear, the food that you eat, all those gadgets that you can’t live without! A person’s sexual orientation on the other hand is something that they are born with or relate to and even though it’s not natural to you, it’s probably the biggest part of someone else’s identity.
2. Seeing gay couples will make people gay: Hanging out with smart people doesn’t make a perpetually dumb person smart. Hanging out with men won’t make me a man. Hanging out with a nightingale won’t make a donkey a singer. Similarly, hanging out with homosexual or bisexual or transgender people won’t alter your sexual orientation. And if it does, you can start hanging out with the heterosexual cisgender people; that will definitely reverse all the previous changes.
3. Gay people raise gay children: Then you have nothing to worry about, right? Because straight people like you will definitely raise straight children; doctors will raise doctors, lawyers will raise lawyers, actors will raise actors, writers will raise writers, sweepers will raise sweepers, criminals will raise criminals and obviously there will always be a balance in lifestyle.
4. Same sex marriage won’t produce children: Firstly, reproduction is not the only reason for which two people decide to spend their life together. Secondly, have you heard of adoption? You know, it’s the process where children (produced by the sexual union of a man and a woman), who are often disowned or left by their “straight” parents, find new parents and a new home. And thirdly, transgender woman froze her sperms so she could have a baby once she totally transformed into a woman, and there are other examples too.

And once again I have come towards the end of my blog post. Do hit a like if you think this makes sense or you could give a +1 on g+. You could always comment and tell me what other baseless argument you have come across. And if you don’t agree with my views you can always let me know through your comments. You can also give your valuable suggestions.