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Salir del closet para alcanzar los sueños | Danilo Manzano | TEDxPUCE


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Hello
It is very pleasing for me to say it does
a long time I can remember that for
everything is a first time again like this
that this time is my first time here and I
I feel very nervous I want to be honest
but at the same time very motivated because what
I come to speak is about a
reality of life that we go through
different people here in the equator my
talk consists of talking on how to
coming out is vital to be able to
achieve dreams and well I want
tell them that I realized if I
I realized that I was a super child
different since since I was
Chiquito is , since he was a bus
actually I had already realized
that my behavior my way of
feel my way of seeing life was
different and that’s when I started
hit the first shock points
in my life one of the strongest was
when my mom told me your brothers
they say you walk like women do not
you walk like a woman
and I was five years looking forward to
how women walk as I walk
He was already a child who walked but also
they told me not to speak as a woman and not
do this as a woman if I do not understand
nothing I was just a child that
he lived and he felt but one of the but
one of the moments also more more
strong that I want to talk to you is that
As you see in the photo, it is not true
I have a pretty cool family
the first three are men and then
A few years ago the light of my life came
who is my younger brother then clear
before it our life’s
games were between the three not then
the games a little more abrupt the
shocks and also the bad words that
well going on then we started talking
bad words and everything else and one day
while we watched, I remember soccer with
my dad on TV already
imagine typical macho home
we were watching all tele and it comes out in
sometime this part in which he
maradona catches and the adrenaline of
football is finished by giving a kiss with another
footballer I do not know if you remember
but at that moment when these are given
two evils a lot my dad does not come back to
see all three and made us like that from one in
one
and I inside said I shit
because guys, guys, girls, I had in
that time how many years would have
seven years maybe not but already when
He did this
now there will be problems and that is
Of course I knew that my way of feeling
It was different
but that’s when you realize
that something is not right
and that you have to enter the closet
and the longest torture of the
lifetime
and then for this already in school I
I studied in the sade the truth is that
I always liked the topics
I’ve always liked social a lot
get involved for the just causes and in
then a project was developed
at the national level that was aimed at
that childhood begins to know and begins
to know about democracy being this way
with a group of children at school
we go to compete concursa we go
against the standard – bearer of the school and
against one of the best athletes and
we were a group of children, not
concursa let’s go to get to the
presidency we put a name but
you can not imagine how long it was
name I do not even remember but the
teachers agreed on
make him tiny and put messengers of
peace that was the name of our
list was crazy when they told us
that we had won and that was one of the
first most important triumphs of my
life let’s say but if God hates me
If I’m sick because this happens, it ‘s
I do not know anymore something is not right out there
can change and through this I
link a child advocacy process
girls and teenagers and to know about
sexual and reproductive rights and
appears began to have the 11
that transitory time in which one already
puberty begins the pelitos by not
I know where and you start to feel a
little confused but good I knew that
my life was different it’s not true and it’s
there when he arrived at the
adolescence have already seen us from chamitos
in this picture we are much bigger
with my mom is not true and that’s when
another process begins in my life
also stronger because I started to love
someone I did not know loved in
silence
surely most of you had
a spectacular adolescence because the
vacilla la farra is not true
the first kiss or the first addiction
also happens is not true to the girls
you do not notice that but also there is
other behaviors yes but it started to
happen to me that but I did not have
chance to experiment because the
society imagine if it is still complicated
imagine 15 years ago
I have 30
then he said good the moment will come
where I can let go or maybe not
priest school in your Catholic home
sexist then it was like around
the truth had everything against me but
even so I decided to also let life
flow and with always great commitment
to be able to help others and be able to
get involved in just causes to the
15 years I decide to come out of the closet I do not know if
it was the best time but in that
moment the truth was not one day
in a lunch
when we were all like me
I counted all my dads super cool
I do not say good, I like men
the spoon went long
and there was total silence silence
total total total total total total total
He passed
two days when my dad did not get up from
bed
and my mom told me your dad needs
talk to you but as well as novel
mexican not your father needs but is
ok i ‘m going
then I will talk to my dad and he
I was like that lying on the bed and I
I sat down to the day of the bed and he said tell me
that is not true
I told him I like men
and that was the time of adolescence
hardest of my life when he told me you
you just died as said word
I do not know if something similar has happened to them
but not only feel the fact that
disappoint your dad
but they are telling you that as a son
you are dying
and in the middle of adolescence there are no boys
girls a high index of teenagers from
people who commit suicide but who do not
we see and we do not know because the
family is ashamed to tell
when investigations are not
they will admit that he lost his life or that
he took his life for being the axis and I think
that it’s not fair to live in a world where
the teenagers have to overcome
for being different
and well after this they started to happen
the years still involved much the
social issues I did a lot of pastoral
Believe it or not, we were from Guido
who was carrying the hostile one who is going to see
wines of all a bit actually really very
nice I think something very valuable from the
church is that much is given to
social work and I am very respectful
with the spirituality of the people
at 18 years old and when the end the typical
not now if they go to the devil and greater than
I’m going to be with who I am
I did not even have a partner but
I had a cousin a super cool cousin
that he loved me very good people but
he had found out because of course
everyone is learning the family
the friends and everything and she got to say
who has the cure for homosexuality
the cure for homosexuality cousin with
this will cure you and you will see what will be
super good and I said good and it was so much the
insistence that I had forgotten that
I had committed on a Sunday
seven in the morning be in the house and I
forget ‘come to defar has dawned in
six thirty was in the house and I
I did not know what was going to happen when in that
my mom tells me they’re waiting for you back
in the house a quarter ago
they are waiting for me back I will see what
is if I take lame I walk through the room
and I see a lady a lady of
those witches of ancestral communities
I will never forget I had my hair
long long long long long long
Long all the teeth of incredible gold
and almost did not speak much Spanish my son
Sit down
and I sat down and started telling me god does
man and woman and man and woman and man
and woman and said I am a man I am not
woman
but do not end up doing anything for everything
this same pull out clothes do not stop me
literally in boxer in boxer shorts
Mass put everything to the side and suddenly
I saw him that he took all his hands
some tortillas from some mountains and started and
I screamed imagine
but it was because I was burning that I thought that
I was literally taking the
demon all salt demons
is broken and the truth is that I
that horrible note burned when I thought that
I had finally finished and I’m staying
sitting quietly not because he disappeared
the horror story disappeared I said
it ended that bacán finished
I do not know where the hell I just felt a
icy thing that ran through me from the
tip of the head to toe me
echo colony a ready colony
special in removing it with the roots of
where it would not be blah blah blah blah
boy age of that time literally my
body rolled up completely because
was the nettle the mountains and everything and
alcohol I ran out when I go out
running to turn around to enter
through the main door to the house to
the shower the witch runs out back
my own
my god I did not want to know anymore
nothing then good also tried to
exorcise me but neither was it the
solution after that I had several
psychologists together where psychologists people
that valuable people because really
none told my family that I
he really was sick but rather
that they were the ones who had to
change the attitude with me but after
that’s also how I did a lot of work
the sport, the truth was, he played a lot
volleyball something that I quite liked a
Sunday from nothing came to the house to that
from five in the afternoon then to the
house everything well and in that encounter well
how are you all right now in a room
half brother brother we love you and me
God
they decided to install a cell
evangelist in my house
and I said cool what I like a lot
sing no but I had not even been
asked then they thought that maybe
and the witch did not work psychologists
did not work the exorcism I do not know what
maybe now through
of this group of people but neither
It worked, there were several attempts
my family to heal me but I
I wonder you think there is a cure for
something that is not a disease not the
LGBT people are not sick
we just love see you in a way
different and the difference is positive
the difference is necessary the difference
in a world like this we still do
much more valuable and much more valuable
and well we passed that stage and said
I do not need freedom I ‘m even though
limit although it ‘s outside I have to be
away and they started the trips of the usa
in these summer exchanges and I started
to work as a bartender I said good
let’s see how the work doing
drinks the whole day earned super good
I do not lie to them and apart from seeing the
very beautiful manes because imagine
I was all day all day
making drinks and while the manes in
the pool not the gringos the crickets their
touch super good and one dying from the
heat watching the daisies flying
everywhere but well well I spent a
good time wanting to find
I needed to go back to the process of
the childhood in which my dream was to serve and
serve with madness and serve and serve and
serve and contribute and be a channel and a
conduit that contributes to society
after that life so generous already in
gmt activism has started to
link I know a great man a
great friend
Manuelito and one day little man tells me
danilo we need to see each other because we have
that go to a foundation where we are going to
make people a level people
national with all the activists of
the whole country I did not understand anything
but it was so much the pressure of him
are left and we are going to do activism with
more people from the people of ecuador and
let’s build a people the shaft go
at the national level where we are going to translate
Our rights
chévere said VACCARIA more than talk not
every day he called me without stopping I said
well all right let’s see what it is
about
and that’s how from one moment to the next and without
I want to get to meet this
group of dreamers where madness the
passion and adrenaline is the key to
work and this becomes my faith my
second family skeletal foundation where
we work among old people among young people
between the bet axis is absolutely everything
what you can imagine and when I
I say tell me we work with the
goal of improving the quality of life
of people in the equator and me
and why they are paid and seriously if
and that became a new home to
through which again the dreams and
again the challenges began to return
to my life without wanting to and without
almost believe the truth I even before
that the only thing that had received the
discrimination and it was the rejection but
something happened not that childhood dream
one way or another he would come back and suddenly
I was coming back with strength
already for all this he had one of the
also stronger clashes
again with my old man when he arrives and
finds me eating having the house put together
a relax do not calculate sent me to the devil
he sent the devil told me again that
I was going to die that I do not know what I do not know
how fatal is the relationship with dad
terrible during the past years and it was
So when I decided to leave, I left.
my parents’ house and I find this
man that is in the photo
that is my family is one of my best
friends and we are living together now
for three years those panas that
appeared at the best moment when I
I needed to find where to live told me
crazy 20 live with me since then
It ‘s been four years and started
do the fight together and we started to
make the fight with more people and
we started to get into activism with
strength but I felt that something else
was missing and it’s like that when walking and
wanting to connect these dreams
personal and wanting to serve people
is when you learn a tool
very important that when you want
changing the world can not do it alone
one needs to work in a way
collective connect your cause your dream and
your fight and you realize that there are many
other people who are wanting to do
exactly the same as you and first you
realize that you were never alone
that you were never alone and that all
previous setbacks were important
so that at some point they begin to
return the rewards
and good after all this process then
having gone through so many things I
I said I have to contribute to the world with
something else and when the facebook is
agree on cell phones gave the chance
to broadcast live I said this is the
better time at last I’ll be able to talk
everything you want because how will they be given
I like to talk a lot and I say
well I do all the time I’m
talking, I’m walking, I’m thinking
I am talking dialoguing I walk and
dialogue is the channel of
alternative communication on facebook that
management that I recommend you visit is
a communication platform for
activists from ecuador and latin america a
place where the youth you want to say
something can say can do it
summon and invite to manifest is to say
all the things that the youths
they want to inform and that sometimes the
We will not allow television after
this the dialogue ‘does not happen to be
phone to have already a work team
so that they see that the xxi serve as something
my ex got my world but after that
we’re done and now we’re big
he dialogues giving as such happens to
be that space not a space where
feminist animalists youth
environmentalists is to say all the
diversity has a space to talk about
super proud to be able to do that super
proud that he already won it ‘no
It provides a space for youth but
there was something more inside that
it was super important and it was going back to
reencontrarme with my family needed
meet again and exactly four ago
months I started to feel guys that something
it came that something big was coming did not know
but this time it was no longer negative and it was
something positive and said something happens and something
happens and a few months ago guys
agree the march is with my children not
mess
I was surprised that I did not expect
again a lunch Sunday with the
family and my dad tells me I need
talk to you I said again
and he says to me I need to apologize
for all the damage that I have done you do not
I think of Chile as crazy but I turned to
find him
I went back to meet my dad
guys girls how important it is to have
a cause to fulfill your dreams if you do not
let themselves be overcome by nothing and by anyone
what is your closet analyze what is your
closet what is it that scares them and
dialogues question and learn
opportunity to think differently be
you many thanks
[Applause]
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