LGBT people: No matter What, They Are Also Humans

Yesterday, I have an interview class in my creative writing class. Whatever happens in the interview, it is better not to be told. The clear thing is the topic is around LGBT people.

LGBT (acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people maybe only the small numbers compare to the millions lives of humans in Indonesia and around the world, but they surely exist. They are there, in front of our eyes, yet no one cares to portray them.

One thing that I focus on the interview is the reality that many of LGBT people are being shunned away by the society. Many of them separated themselves from their family because their family doesn’t approve them to be one of the LGBT. One thing that I must say is, just because they are different, it does not make them less human than us, that can consider ourselves as normal. 

Sure, their behavior or sexual preference is different but other than that they are human, right? Sure, what they did maybe wrong through the culture, religion, and social’s point of view but must we shunned them out? Pretend that they are not exists? And when the person that close to us is LGBT must we cut off the family’s relationship, the friendship, or the love that is built up for years just because of that? After all being LGBT is not only because they are already one since the start, there are some cases where people became an LGBT  because of their environment (that is too firm to separate women and men maybe) so it’s not like an LGBT is someone that is already destined to be one since they are born. For me avoid the LGBT is the same like said that their existence is not acknowledged, and even though in our culture and religion maybe it is wrong to support this kind of people but at least please, don’t deny that these kind of people exist.  

What can I say, in humans’ lives, culture and religion is everything that makes the norm of the lives. And unfortunately, there are no religion that straightly accept LGBT and eastern culture (including Indonesia) is not as open-minded as America or other western societies there (even in the open-minded society like American and other western countries I think this LGBT issues is still a sentimental issue to be accepted) and in turn makes LGBT becomes something that is really taboo. 

Humans are social being and LGBT people are humans. They are not independent people that can live alone, they need to interact with other people (that is normal) too in order to live. They need a place where they can feel safe, that they are accepted too (which I admit surely must be not so many in Indonesia). And LGBT is not useless, they can do many things better than what normal people can. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual people can help so many orphans to get a chance to have a family (because it is impossible for them to have children, right) and transgender people they looks like a best friend that can see the world from two point of view, man and woman’s point of view at the same time, it is the best friend for someone to come over when they have a problem to share. They can help our lives too, the normal people. 

So if the next time you see one of LGBT people please don’t look down upon them. Don’t insult them, don’t humiliate them, don’t show them that you actually despise them, don’t hurt them more than what they already got. If you can’t accept their existence don’t say or show anything about it, just shut your mouth, put your poker face on, and go away.  After all, just because you are normal and they are not, what can make you so sure that you are better than them?