The first time I was in Lisbon, I went to places to see what the city was like.
I was amazed, better to say surprised about the openness of sexuality.
There wasn’t a lot of sex in the streets, I just saw a lot of gay people walking hand in hand.
Just a lot of gay people being there. Generally.
It was also surprising to me, there weren’t many people bothered about it.
Of course it isn’t really a problem, but it was something I was observing.
For some years there has been a lot to say about the ‘LGTBQIA-community’.
I hope I have put the letters in the right order.
I don’t say that to mock it in this way or for any specific reason.
I mean, it only seems to get more.
I am talking about the letters.
Something as a spectator and outsider I have been admiring.
If that is something you can say about this.
That a community as we know, can become more.
In my opinion it is not really a form of growth.
Perhaps you wonder, why do I speak about it like this?
Eventhough I am straight, I have had my own struggles with my sexuality.
What the people of this community are dealing with.
Some even all of their life.
Sexuality is something that is connected to society as a whole.
That is what I believe.
I don’t know if I ever talked about my struggle with my own sexuality.
For me it was the acceptance of really being straight and not ‘LGTBQIA’.
Not even just a little bit.
I really have no sexual attraction to my own kind and gender.
That itself was already a journey.
Where sexuality has to me a different meaning, then only being very open about it.
I mean, I don’t belong to the LGTBQIA community.
To me sexuality means ‘I am’.
Even if I am not gay.
What is ‘expected’ to only belong to that community, in my opinion, it is not only for them to have.
I believe there is enough for everyone, when it comes to sexuality.
At least it should be.
Perhaps it is the start of a different name for this community.
Because who can remember all those letters anyway?
I am leaving it up to you, if that is a question.
To say I am very serious about it, where the journey of sexuality should be open to all of society and not only for the LGTBQIA community.