What About Privacy?

When I hear about cases like Jamie Hubley’s, it really saddens me. Maybe it is because most of my friends are gay that it moves me like that, for I saw most of them suffer of this difference; not knowing how to tell their parents or friends, afraid of being rejected. Now things have been spoken, without big tragedy for most of them. Some are openly gay, others never tell if not asked, it depends on how they have accepted who they are.

Of course, homosexuality is not the big taboo it used to be, but there is still a lot of work to do before it becomes well accepted. However, the fact is that there is no effective mean to radically change a society’s moral. This makes me wonder on the relevance of Rick Mercer’s suggestion. Of course, we live in a society where “celebrities” are THE reference on everything and everybody wants to be like them, but as many well-known persons often already have a big part of their life exposed, shouldn’t they have the right to have a little privacy? Should they bear this whole issue on their own shoulders? I really don’t think so! Not everybody wants to militate for causes even if it touches them on the first level and it is not because you are publically known that you have accepted your situation.

I think that this responsibility belongs to everybody and as my parents thought me to accept homosexuality as a normal thing (I really do believe it is), I oppose every time that I hear homophobic comments or insults. I think that governments should develop more programs to educate people on homosexuality and that schools should act in order to reprimand homophobic acts. After all, we mostly condemn racist acts, now it should be time to reprove more severely, homophobic acts. However, change cannot happen on itself and leaving the task to well-known gay people seems absurd to me. It belongs to the whole society to militate in every way possible against homophobia.