Post Pride
YanniLegbelos
あらすじ
After 50 years of Pride, Gay culture is at an inflection point for gay men in the West today. We are the lucky beneficiaries of a culture of tolerance and self-acceptance, and we feel pretty exuberant about it. Pride has given us a lot, but it has left our dark sides untouched. Gay men in the West today are at once leaders, more physically fit, and more aware but also lack in mental fitness, self-medicate profusely, and are as promiscuous as ever. Our Pride culture has permitted us to love ourselves, but it does not say anything about how to love each other, especially when we are so adventurous.While Pride must always continue for those less fortunate than us, Post Pride concerns itself with the future of being Gay: where we do not have to "come out" anymore, where homosexuality is mainstream, and where we do not have to feel 'different' and divide ourselves from the rest of humanity. Post Pride gives us permission to lead both the LGBT spectrum and the wider world with the 2020 clarity of understanding our history, and with the freedom to write our own future.'Post Pride' seeks to answer the questions of the next frontier that Pride leaves unanswered:-If all choices of life are valid, which ones are better?-If we have total freedom to live in the Now, will our choices be betrayed by the Future?-If we are not directly responsible for rearing children, do we have a stake in the world's future?-In finding life partners, how do we choose when we having so much (illusion of) choice? How and why do we separate friends from lovers, and flames?-In sex, we have afforded ourselves so much freedom. Can too much of it hurt us? Is our collective promiscuity an asset or liability?-On love, how do we design our love life in a way that transcends the ("straight") cultures we inherited, like romanticism, marriage for family, or marriage for protection of assets?-Why are we disproportionately and increasingly suffering from addictions (of substances, information, social validation) and mental health issues compared to other cohorts?-How can our network become a distinct source of connection over other affinity labels (nationality, race, universities, corporations)?-How do we connect deeply with straight people that may or may not have a view into our world?-Are we going to claim our place in leading the World as a frontier culture, or be satisfied by being a fringe culture merely tolerated in it?-To be able to lead, will we face the dark sides of the Pride culture?-Finally, what does all this mean for our family who brought us into this world, our original (usually straight) parents and siblings?