What do you represent?
Friday, August 28th, 2009What do you represent? This is an important question I was thinking about the other day. As a gay person, i’ve never thought about “representing”. However, to the world at large as a gay person I am often represented by people that I don’t know, that I don’t have anything in common with, and many times who I have no desire to be associated with. Here’s a perfect example of what I am talking about:

Basically, these queens marching in a gay pride parade are the images you typically see projected to the world at large about gay people. And it’s repeated thousands of times over every year, in cities all over the globe during gay pride weekend. Like it or not, these people represent gay people in an implied sense, and that includes me and every other gay person out there – which I find highly fucking annoying. If you are a gay person, is this who you want to be known for? I sure don’t – this isn’t what I am all about, and doesn’t have anything to do with who I am as a person.
Anyway I decided when I started this blog it would be my way to represent myself as I want to be represented as a gay person, not as other people (whether gay people, straight people, the media, or news outlets), want to represent me. And why not? Maybe if more people represented themselves a little, the world might see that there’s more to gay people than just bad stereotypes.


