Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 2:45
Why are same sex relationships treated as if the couple are just making a statement?
So I just wanted to open this up as a bit of discussion because it seems that for heterosexual relationships, it's a relationship. It's no big deal. It's two people in love in a caring relationship, doing their thing. But when two people of the same sex are acting in exactly the same way, loving relationship, wanting to live their life do their thing, it almost becomes like as if they're are making a political statement
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 2:46
So I think your logic is impeccable that it's the same act, just different people doing it. But the explanation, I think, is fairly simple that we come from a history of gay people, well, anybody other than heterosexuals having to live a closet life to avoid being thrown in prison or worse
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 3:12
It's still quite recent that it was not legal and not safe for people to be out in public. And perhaps we do still have a bit of a way to go to realize that it's different to any of LGBTQIA relationships. Thank you so much for your thoughts
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:59
They're couple and God, heterosexual couples look at them holding hands, but I could never do that with my partner, who is a woman. And I will say never. But I don't feel comfortable. Even in affirming and welcoming churches. I still don't feel comfortable again. I feel like I'm welcome and included up until the limit of a person's ability to be comfortable. You know what? I'm there. We're there
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:17
And in that experience comes the cost of feeling something other than what you should be feeling, which is just in that moment, whether you're at a party or an event or service or at work. But you're othered and it distracts from the other living part of you. And I speak from a real personal experience because in the times I've brought partners to family events, trying to not be on display. But by default, I am on display as a couple
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 2:32
And I don't feel like I can share that with the world, but each of their own, some people, everyone is different. But yeah, it shouldn't be that one type of relationship being heterosexual is treated differently to the other, and it's an age old discussion that I know we have, but it struck me that one seems to be a lovely situation and normal situation for heterosexual people to be affectionate in public, and the other is somehow like a political statement or in your face
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:33
And I'm just on guard waiting for something, including people thinking that it's completely acceptable to ask about our sex life, which they never ever asked when I was married to a man. And as you said, linking with mental health, I think that's another thing that doesn't get talked about enough