Queer as folk

This is an essay of free topic assignment in my uni first year (2004) in China.

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Queer as folk

In your whole life, maybe you will bring into contact with some people, whose work, whose appearance is almost same as other folks, but they also have a different life.

They are a little crowd in this society. They conduct their life in a weird way which in other people's eyes. Too many sufferings and lacerations from pressures of their families, the society and the traditional moralities are born on them. They ever lost themselves; ever walked back and forth without knowing where to go. However, they even thirst for getting happiness than anybody.

Homosexuality, it stills a sensitive topic in the society up to now.

Social opinions for the homosex, generally, it seems Aids; seems corruptness; seems anomalism and something bad else.

Whereas some people advocate justice and admitting to homosex, I never gainsay those opening kind people were busy for this little crowd, but in fact, most of people still consider that homosexuality is a sick of psychology, is morbidity. During the semicentury, some relational researches already proved it is wrong, but they just the same can not accept other difference than them. More and less, they use a disputing negative manner to look on queers, even to hurt them.

There is why happiness for them is too reachless. The manners of their life and future all are negative and sorrowful, because they never can catch the well-wishing with their family members and social self-identity as the same degree as other people. They even be given up. And then, there are no legal protection for the relation between them and their partner. The important thing is they can not see the sunshine, even if they can confront the pressures but they also live under the ground as mouses.

Envisaging their lives, there are many discriminations of different degrees from the society.

In public places, they can not have a little familiarity like heterosexuality, because it will draw down a great lot of weird eyes.

At working places, they must momently regard their behaviors to not beget misgivings of their boss and colleagues, because whoever knows it will affect the official career.

At school, some one may be lucky and feel easy from the liberal classmates and friends, just attention to the teachers and the school lead. There are more and more news can explain this cruel reality in society, suicide of student who is queer is not the big new news.

And in the face of their parent, that must be all the queers’ sorrow. When they are difficultly confronting the pressures from outside, they also endure the same things from parent. They will feel unfilial, because they have not chosen the way which parents want them to be. They are lonely and helpless without parents’ support.

Fostered children and so on. But evermore they never felt happy and even extended the buskins to the next generation.

So most of old queers all have lived on the identified life way, married with opposite sex.
Then, happiness is not able to present to them, isn’t it? As regard queers, what is happiness? I always ask.

And one day, I knew a homosexual couple. They are together over ten years. In their eyes, I saw the happiness. With their long-term efforts, they already caught acceptances and well-wishing, from most of friends and among of their parent. Now, they are trying to convince the other’s parent.

However, I get the answer of my question. For human being, including homosex and heterosex, there are different explanations for happiness. But importantly, please don’t abandon to go in for it. Maybe acceptance and justice are the most of happiness for queers, and let them have better future and happiness. Just it.

Today, what I said, what I want to effect, just hope to make more people can admit this crowd.