SHUT UP AND WATCH GAY PEOPLE LIVE!

Persistently, we read quips or jibes about how the LGBT are shoving their sexuality in everyone’s face. It has become a running joke. A persistent sentiment. How we have infiltrated the “liberal” media and are trying to put themselves in everything. The voices are loud and would’ve been perpetually ignored if they weren’t so wrong and damn prejudiced that it would be dangerous to not pop these zits.

So, let’s begin.

When people say the sexuality of the LGBT is being shoved down their throats, it’s not about sexuality in particular. Heterosexuality litters the media. They either don’t notice or do and a good number even like it.

LGBT people are essentially said to be shoving their sexuality in everyone’s face for doing the EXACT SAME THINGS (in much smaller doses, I might add) that straight people do all the time, with no one batting an eyelid and some people even going, “Aww…”

This isn’t about shoving anything.

It’s about the fact that when you’re prejudiced against something, even a little bit feels like too much.

Speaking about LGBT representation on television, let’s divide this concept into four components.

1) Gay people just being on screen. Sometimes, gay characters on TV are made into high-pitched, effeminate stereotypes of the gay man, to hammer home the idea that they are gay – something that apparently offends some people.

2) Gay couples. In the majority of their scenes, these characters are not doing anything special. They’re literally living their lives like any couple, or holding hands, or walking together into a store, or on a date at a restaurant. However, just the fact that this couple is of the same sex is enough to offend some people.

3) Gay kisses. These are actually rare. Unlike romantic comedies which almost always end in a heterosexual kiss and all of the random male-female smooches that occur in almost every movie or television series, you have to essentially crack your head to name a dozen movies or series where gay people kissed. There would be countless high-profile movies just this year where straight people kissed, and it’s not even halfway through the year.

4) Gay sex. Technically not just the sex. This includes naked dry humping and all of the other stuff that happens around sex. How many movies can you name that have this kind of content? How many of those movies or series are mainstream?

Now, how many movies can you name where heterosexual sex is simulated? Your phone crashed trying to get the numbers, right?

OK.

These distinctions are important to show that when people say that gay sexuality is being shoved in their faces, they often don’t even mean gay people kissing or being intimate – even though that would still be prejudiced. On-screen physical intimacy between gay people is relatively rare.

These people are simply against any kind of LGBT representation.

Even the sight of gay couples holding hands or raising a child together is gay sexuality being shoved down their throats.

For a number of them, even the presence of effeminate gay men (I maintain that Hollywood’s need to almost always represent gay men as high-pitched, effeminate stereotypes fails to capture the diversity of the LGBT community and as such creates a certain caricature of what the gay man should look or sound like) talking with girls in a salon or an office or having a crush on a same sex person is enough to make these homophobes feel like LGBT sexuality is being shoved down their throats.

This is primarily about LGBT erasure. They want to look into their screens and see a world where the LGBT does not exist.

They want the LGBT to hide back in their closets so they can feel more comfortable.

They want things to go back to the way they used to be… You know, when people pretended that queer people did not exist.

That however will not happen.

We have fought for and deserve our representation. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people exist all over the world and deserve to be able to look into TV and see someone who looks like them.

When you see a homophobe ranting about queer sexuality being shoved in his face, tell him this.

Tell him to shut up and watch gay people live.

Tell him he will not change what is happening.

That he cannot.

That he should get used to it.

As for those opinions of his, tell him there is a particular place you can go shove them.

Written by Vhagar