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.
Not to say that there was a lot of sex in the streets, but for example gay people walking hand in hand.
Openly.
Just a lot of gay people being there. Generally.
Not that they were open about their sexuality.
It was also surprising to me, that not so many people being bothered about it.
Of course that is not really a problem, but it was something that 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.
Because it only seems to get more.
I am talking about the letters.
It is not something bad, that it is getting more.
Just something as a spectator and outsider I have been admiring.
If that is something you can say about this.
Just sharing here my thoughts.
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, it is that I have had my own struggles with my sexuality.
What the people of this community are dealing with.
Some even all of their life.
It is not that if you are ‘not some form’ of this community, sexuality goes beyond you.
I am speaking about humans in general.
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.
Because sexuality has to me a different meaning, then only being very open about it.
But perhaps I am wrong.
Who knows.
I don’t belong to the LGTBQIA community.
But for me sexuality means ‘I am’.
Even if I am not gay.
Especially that to me is very important, because 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.
Or 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 that I am very serious about it, that the journey of sexuality should be open to all of society and not only for the LGTBQIA community.