"Nothing to be ashamed of."

Posted by: GayGuy

One of the greatest challenges a homosexual goes through, is the fact of being embarassed, for being homosexual. There are just some things people don't understand and why we are made this way.

"So is it natural or is it just a choice", a question you may ask but unfortunately, not many people asked.

Let's stay strong together. You may be closeted right now just like me, but the message this blog want to send is that there are so many people facing the same problem as you, living in the same city of Singapore.

You are never alone. You are absolutely normal.

This person has chose to reveal herself as jazz2jazzy as she posted her entry via comments. Some spelling errors has been corrected. No other parts are edited.

From: gaytothebone.blogspot.com via comments: jazz2jazzy.
To: gay_2_d_bone@yahoo.com

Hi,

Found your blog from your comments on Tommorrow.Sg.

There are many like us out there, YES, even in our straight lace City state of S'pore. Most of us, remain invisible (under the radar) because it is still quite a taboo here and shouting at the top of your lungs that you are a PLU does not go down well with most S'poreans.

I relate to your earlier post on being closetted and constantly fearing the negativity that might befall us if we even let on that we "different" to our friends/ family.

I can relate because I am still quite a closetted lesbian to this day even though I am in a committed relationship with my gf of 7 years.

You will be surprised that our society has come to be more tolerant nowadays. At most raised eyebrows and "tsk tsk" going around, when they see us together as a couple, but that's about it.

What we can do, is to remind the rest that we are still very much the same like everyone else, productive individuals in our respective field of work.

We fall in love, fall out of love, live our dreams and live our life the way we want it to be.

Only difference is that we will not go through the standard marriage, HDB, have 2.5 kids package that seems to define normality in S'pore these days.

Nevertheless, we are around and we have nothing to be ashamed of.

So Cheers!

http://gaytothebone.blogspot.com is a community writing project targeted on gay, bisexual, and lesbian teens to write in their life stories of how they managed through their homosexual/bisexual lifestyle, the stories of coming out of the closet to parents, relatives and friends. It also hopes to educate the public on more gay and lesbian issues, the challenges they face, and to replenish the insufficient education about homosexuality in Singapore that has caused a major homophobic attitudes among teens today.

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