本帖最后由 同志哥 于 2011-10-3 16:56 编辑
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As love is the eternal theme in literature and art, everyone desires his true love and wants to share his happiness to all over the world. However, not everyone can do this, at least in current society, which I mean is the gays and lesbians.
“You know, the marriage between two people of the same sex is illegal, but we also need the same rights as heterosexuality.” Tongzhige said, a Ph.D. in Zhejiang University, as well as a gay, “because of this, we must do something to change, to get our own rights.” What he said is what he did.
In Tongzhige’s childhood, when he watched the TV play “The Journey to the West”, he found he liked the soldiers in armor much more, rather than the beautiful fairies as the other boys did. In that moment, he thought he is a gay subtly even though he didn’t know anything about the concept of gay or homosexual at all. “Until I was in senior school or even in university, the concept of homosexual seemed to be familiar to me. And the concept was confirmed in the study to my master’s degree and up to this several years to my Ph.D., I set about doing some work in this respect.” Tongzhige said.
Many gays in China shy away from revealing their sexual preference for fear of discrimination. The human rights of gays are not enough in China, which Tongzhige and his fellows are looking for. Tongzhige always posts massages in some popular forums, as well as in People and People and Google so that can make the knowledge of homosexual universal to change the position of discrimination. In addition, what Tongzhige did includes participating in some activities to prevent AIDS, delivering several pieces of positive news about homosexual, and coordinating some civil action, like Lei Chuang’s action to struggle rights for Hepatitis b patients. Tongzhige describes the values of what he is doing as “the gay rights movements is happening slowly and toughly in the entire world, as well as in China. What we did maybe can only promote in few millimeters, or even few microns. As long as it does promote, all the effort just can be valuable.”
In China, many homosexuals cave in to the old traditions and moralities so that they choose to get a marriage to the heterosexuals who they don’t love at all. “But I will say ’NO!’ to all of these.” Tongzhige said it stoutly, ”As a homosexual, I have to clarify my stand, to do what my heart goes, only in this way can we be heard. Otherwise, the hegemonies dominated by heterosexual will be more powerful, whose symbols is paternity, the out-dated issue.”
“As Carl Marx said, ’changing in quantity leads to changing in quality.’ I have to practice it from myself to make my own contribution to the gay rights movements.” Tongzhige said so as he did.
During 2003 to 2006, he was pressed to date girls to get a marriage by his family. He resisted all the arrangements, eventually, he announced he is a gay and he will never marry a woman, which shocked his family. Just in this reason, the wars broke out between him and his family. Luckily, a compromise was achieved in the end by his family that they won’t push him to get a marriage, but in the meanwhile, it won’t be accepted to find a guy he loved. In deed, they still can not understand him, nor can support him. Tongzhige said, “this difference will be last because it exists in our perception which can’t change in one or two generation. It takes a long term to struggle, and I will do my every effort.”
“I never think it is ashamed that a guy loves a guy, on the contrary, I enjoy it.” Tongzhige said, “Once people refer to homosexual, it always relates with AIDS, one night sex and such many negative words. All these are bias, so I want to change it. But I am not so good to accomplish all the activities.”
Tongzhige said he is an introvert so that he can’t work very well as a team with other fellows. To do things alone will be prior to him. That’s why he can’t stay a long term in a group to go for something with others, which limited him in some degree. “since I know this, I will try my best to correct it so that our gay rights movements can achieve better.”
In Tongzhige’s signature line, he wrote a sentence as below: “I am a critic, untimely and unpopular. I am fighting for a world of non-discrimination against sex orientation, caring everything about the homosexual rights movement, prevention of AIDS, civil rights and NGO, long live Marx, long live Engels, long live truth, long live freedom.”
“Actually, I’m a celibacy bachelor because I’m not good at dealing with the tete-a-tete world. I prefer donate my whole life to gay rights movements. I love loneliness. I love freedom. I will never get married even if I’m a heterosexual.” Tongzhige said. |
