Easier to come out and be gay these days
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hey guys
i personally feel its easier to come out these days with technology and the internet as valuable resources. it was so difficult back in the 1990's lol
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Technically, it's still not easy for me, especially since I live in a rather homophobic country. Lately LGBT people demand their rights to be treated equally here and got many negative response. We're heavily discriminated so… no. I only come out to a handful of my closest friends, who are apparently open-minded enough to accept me.
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of course it matters where you live….its not easy in a homophobic country. i feel your pain man
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Yes. It's much easier in comparison to the past but it does not mean that gay people from over the world have chance to open their closet.
I am an Asian, so it's like a taboo to come out :cry2: :cry2: -
i didnt actually kow it was still a taboo in asia….i live in south africa, and i still feel like its a big taboo
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It still is. In my point of view, many of these Asian countries are heavily religious. And as you may already know, LGBT and religion don't get along well. Here, they treat homosexuality and transgenders as disease, defying laws of nature and must be terminated. And I mean really terminated, should they be given permission to do so…
how funny. they talk about equality, being tolerant to others and treat them humanely, yet, they view LGBT people with disgust and full of hate, refuse to be friendly and don't want to know anything
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i didnt actually kow it was still a taboo in asia….i live in south africa, and i still feel like its a big taboo
Yes, even in some developed countries like Singapore or Korea, homosexualities is something people always try their best to avoid. And some other countries (Sorry but I don't want to give out a detailed names, you can google by yourself), you can thrown into jail or give a legal death for being a openly gay. But some countries like Thailand, Japan, Vietnam (and more), we can have a easier life.
Compare to the past, we do have lots of changing, but I don't know how many year I will have to wait to have chance to hold the hands of the man I love without being humiliated. -
I can definitely attest to the comments about life as a gay in Asia. I was always out back in Canada ever since I was a teen and…didn't even realize the freedom it represented. When I moved to Korea in 2006 I really had to go back in the closet. It was difficult, but I guess I got used to it. I left though, in 2013 because I couldn't handle the fact that Koreans were so unwilling to have a real relationship because that would mean not just coming out to someone else, but also to themselves.
SO I went to Taiwan, which was so much more open I couldn't even believe it. Now Taiwan has a gay-supporting president and the future looks brighter than ever, as she came out in favour of equal marriage rights BEFORE being elected. ....Now...if only the rest of the world would stop being bullied by China and publicly recognize Taiwan as the independent country that it is, so that it can start setting more effective positive role modeling for the Asian community. -
I can definitely attest to the comments about life as a gay in Asia. I was always out back in Canada ever since I was a teen and…didn't even realize the freedom it represented. When I moved to Korea in 2006 I really had to go back in the closet. It was difficult, but I guess I got used to it. I left though, in 2013 because I couldn't handle the fact that Koreans were so unwilling to have a real relationship because that would mean not just coming out to someone else, but also to themselves.
SO I went to Taiwan, which was so much more open I couldn't even believe it. Now Taiwan has a gay-supporting president and the future looks brighter than ever, as she came out in favour of equal marriage rights BEFORE being elected. ....Now...if only the rest of the world would stop being bullied by China and publicly recognize Taiwan as the independent country that it is, so that it can start setting more effective positive role modeling for the Asian community.Why did you have to move out of Canada?
