Is that normal ? Well it depends, where we are and for whom we are talking about.
I mean to say when we see all these things on news or someone who is talking against bisexuality , we all debate in the favour of bisexuality, like we people actually considers it as normal. But what happens when we move from virtual reality to real time ?
We dont even notice that unintentionally we make fun of it, we make joke of it.
In a group of 4-5 friends or maybe more, If two boys/girls are too much into each other for a while like they are discussing something important or maybe they are disconnected to other friends for that particular moment. How many of us have asked this question - "Bhai tum log gay ho kya" (you both are gays ?) , "tum dono lesbo ho kya"(you both are lesbians), Or "are bhai ye to 377 vale" . Maybe that is a friendly or a normal thing to say or to pull leg of your friends in this manner. But if it is seriously normal than i have a question... Do you make fun or joke of normal things ? As per the society being straight is normal, but i have never heard that " are tum log straight ho kya" in humorous way.
When Section 377 was decriminalised in India, there was a wave of support for bisexuals and LGBT community on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, twitter etc. But still i din't got the fact why LGBTs and bisexuals were the people who were laughed at ? After a short while when things got normal (section 377 was not in the news anymore) people again start mocking this community. Those pages who posted in the favour of bisexuals and LGBTs again started mocking them. Every 10th post or every 15th comment or reply to a comment includes something laughable on section 377.
People used to favour just beacause it was trending ? is that so ?
While scrolling down my insta feed i came across a post which i dont remember. Just like everyone i opened the comment section. There were many keyboard warriors fighting with each other with their basic abusive vocabulary. But then i found someone who claimed that she is a LESBIAN. I dont remember what actually she wrote there but whatever she wrote made me to DM her.
Fortunately she replied, whatever story she told me about herself forced me to write on this topic.
She told me that no matter how much people show that LGBT and BISEXUALITY is normal to them, in real terms nobody can fully digest the fact that his/her friend is GAY/LESBIAN forget about family and relatives. She is now at that age where her parents are asking her to get marry and to get settle down. Now this a dilemma, she cant tell this to her parents because they will not understand, even if her parents gets agreed than what about the other side ? i mean from her lover side...Maybe her family will not accept this.
So what she is going to do ? You might have heard a phrase "If there is a will, there is a way" . If the love is true than definitely there must be a way.
She is a lesbian, if she gets married to a straight man. Their life will be destroyed in seconds....So she decided to marry a Gay . A marriage without sex or a sexless marriage, Just to show the world that they are married and four of them (Both lesbian and gay couple) will live their life behind the curtains. They will live a dual life.
We live in a country where inter-caste marriages are still a question, then how we are going to answer this Bisexual and LGBT question ?
The good thing is the new generation is taking it seriously, maybe this is another form of brain evolution or maybe its just that the new generation is born in the era where people are trying to accept this community.
I wish my new insta friend will also live a life with her true love but not in the duality.
I wish all the people who belongs to this community will have or they will gather enough strength to deal with this hypocritic society where marriage is the ultimate goal.