I yearn for the time when our need to celebrate LGBTQ+ orientations is the same as our need to celebrate heterosexuality - i.e. that it’s all treated as absolutely normal, same as, say, hair color or the color of one’s eyes.
I’ve actually lived for almost a decade in The Netherlands, and it’s pretty refreshing* when nobody actually gives a shit either way about anybody else’s sexual orientation outside a romantic/sexual context.
*compared to most Anglo-Saxon countries, whose culture IMHO is seriously socially backwards compared to the Dutch, being still stuck in a mindset anchored on the idea of LGBTQ+ people as a different kind of people, rather than the flat egalitarian view that people are people are people and sexual orientation is just another absolutely normal human characteristic that can take many forms.
I yearn for the time when our need to celebrate LGBTQ+ orientations is the same as our need to celebrate heterosexuality - i.e. that it’s all treated as absolutely normal, same as, say, hair color or the color of one’s eyes.
I’ve actually lived for almost a decade in The Netherlands, and it’s pretty refreshing* when nobody actually gives a shit either way about anybody else’s sexual orientation outside a romantic/sexual context.
*compared to most Anglo-Saxon countries, whose culture IMHO is seriously socially backwards compared to the Dutch, being still stuck in a mindset anchored on the idea of LGBTQ+ people as a different kind of people, rather than the flat egalitarian view that people are people are people and sexual orientation is just another absolutely normal human characteristic that can take many forms.