The issue you know nothing about

Unless you are gay

Dietrich Corthouts
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Casually holding hands. It was a TED speech I had the pleasure to watch about how gay (and other oriented people) could never do something so simple and natural as that:

Casually holding hands.

Holding hands maybe.

But never casual.

Always on the lookout. Sneers not even be the worst thing. Actual danger of being aggressivly handled, always between the realistic options.

I just sat besides the most adorable young (straight) couple, waiting for the train.

So careless. So into eachother. So oblivious to the outer world. Cuddling. Kissing. Losing themselves in the moment.

I love seeing beauty like this.

I also feel a deep cry in my heart.

It is something, most normal to every young person, our kind has never experienced.

Maybe never will.

Have you ever thought about that?

That you would be stoned for kissing the one you love?

It does not surprise me so many gay people lose themselves in vanity, drugs and sex.

We are conditioned. Trained like Pavlov’s dogs, into believing our love is wrong.

We are wrong.

No matter ‘the better vibe' here and there.

Deep down, for most people, we are still freaks.

Affraid for the judgement, we pretend we do not care.

And we just do not do it …

that thing so innocent and logical to you, that you even give it a second thought

Carelessly, casually holding hands.

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