When do we hear from the unheard?

Years, days, minutes and seconds passed by in search of the truth. I have been, incessantly, searching for the answers for many questions. Yes, I found answers. After having found the answers, I started using the answers to raise further questions. Again, further questions gave many more answers. Through this blog The Unheard Voices, I wish to voice out the suppressed voices.

The Unheard Voices is a blog that is dedicated to talk about the rights of the four commonly abused, hated, and often ignored communities: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT).

What do people really understand of these terms. I remember asking my friend a question. I asked him: 

'What do you understand by the term gay?' 

His stern reply was: 'Gays have sex with many men, and of course with even more men."

How derogatory! I wondered for a moment about my friend's opinion about gays. I gathered myself and again asked him: 

'Is that all you know? What else do you think about them?'

His reply was even more scornful:

'According to me they are not human beings at all. If God gives me power, I would shoot them all to death.'

His answers raised a valid question: 'Does everyone around me think of gays in the way my friend thought?'

I started searching for an answer. I met many and interacted with hundreds. The answers were almost similar. Is this is the opinion that people have on gays?

Gay, as heteros think, is someone, who has excessive sexual desire towards other men. But, is that all! Raja Rao, Vikram Seth, Hoshang Merchant, just didn't write about sex, they wrote about love. 

Love -- a word that is a miracle, is not just mortgaged with heteros. Love, in its universal nature, happens between any two. For instance, in the ever-green Sholay, the love between Veeru and Jaidev is sublime. Won't we call it love? Love between Krishna and Arjuna; love between David and Jonathan; love between Achilles and Patroclus; the love and friendship between the Great Emancipator  Abraham Lincoln and his friend Joshua Speed -- these examples are good fits to talk about love between two men isn't unusual. Irrelevant it would be if you conclude I call them gays. We are only talking of love between men. 

Aristotle, often, extolled the platonic relationships -- a relationship on emotional and intellectual level without sexual intimacy, between men, which he called it heroic friendship. While in the 20th century, the German Psychotherapist, Otto Gross, extensively wrote and supported love between persons of same-sex. These concepts are quite sensitive in nature. Well, are love and sex interwoven in the relationships of gays, where one doesn't exist when the other ceases to? The answer would be a blunt 'No'. There are handful of instances where in a few relationships sex plays a major part with no room, absolutely, for love and vice versa. I know one of my friends, who has been in a relationship with a man for over seven years with no sexual interests -- a platonic love!

Gays just do not share the bed, but, when they get into a relationship, they share their emotions too. When the society can let out traces of positivism on gays and their lives, the answers for the never-ending questions will be answered and the unheard voices will be heard.