New colors!

A fifteen-year-old in Huntsville, Alabama kicked the bucket by suicide in the wake of being tormented for being gay. In 2018, it was a seven-year-old in Denver, Colorado. There have been and will be some more. For these numbers, I’ve decided to write on this topic. I am not sure if my topic is to inform about gender and sexuality or to deconstruct racism. Therefore, it is important to identify the difference between gender, sexual identity and sexual orientation.

Gender is what you find between your legs or to be more specific what the shape of your genitals is. Sexual identity or what we call sexuality refers to what you really feel. Sometimes, you are female, but not feeling like that. We don’t know whether  it is actually abnormal or all of that was just our fault when we think there are only two colors in this world, blue for boys and pink for girls.

However, sexuality is about your expressions, thoughts and entire feeling. Sexual orientation is the ghost, nobody likes to talk about. Sexual orientation is not just about your sexual attraction, It means people you probably fall in love with. That is why there is more than one orientation, for example, lesbians, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, sapiosexual, asexual….etc.

Most of those groups isolate themselves in boxes, making it harder to face heterosexual who think they are the only type of human beings. Global cities where a huge number of people live together have to know there are more than orientation and the world is too large to contain only one type. They don’t need to love LGBTs, but they are required to respect them and not let their eternal hatred and their fear of diversity drive them to make someone dead.