It would be impossible for me to overemphasize how much I love this video and how much I want you to to watch the whole thing. The best explanation Ive ever seen for why Pride is important. It took identity to rescue me from sadness. Identity politics works on two fronts: to give pride to people who have a given condition, or characteristic and to cause the outside world to treat such people more gently and more kindly. Those are two totally separate enterprises, but progress in each sphere reverberates in the other. I used to think I would know myself to be mature once I could be gay without emphasis but the self-loathing of that period left a void and celebration needs to fill and overflow it. And even if I repay my private debt of melancholy theres still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address. Someday being gay will be a simple fact free of party hats and blame... but not yet. ted/talks/andrew_solomon_how_the_worst_moments_in_our_lives_make_us_who_we_are#t-1137699
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:21:48 +0000
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