seven standing in front of the mirror
they don’t really know who you are what
you doing with your life you’re not
really familiar you feel a bit different
but you know there is something unique
about you ladies and gentlemen it’s a
pleasure to be standing here today let’s
start I’m not going to spend any time
introducing myself as a 1qu to get to
know me better through my own talk bang
me you can see women each and every one
of them represents your mom your mom
over there and probably your mother
and probably your mother there the back
you have many mutual things many common
things together but they’ve only one
thing they want from you some of you
think they want you to be doctors maybe
lawyers happy strike that you want only
one thing from they want you to have
grandchildren but what happens if you’re
let’s talk about fear so fear is not
part of today’s talk but it’s sure part
of it and you understand why the word
homosexuality why people are sorry
lucked out this world why people are so
afraid what is it in this word that
makes us be so contained inside
ourselves and being afraid to say this
word out loud when I came out to my mom
and that father couldn’t even pronounce
his word on their lips not even today
some of my family members even until
today cannot what is it in this word
that made it such even a square word to
some of the people around the world it
scares us I want to address you to the
next slide the enemy you can see a map
that represents some of the countries
around the world the acceptance of
almost sexuals I’m going to take you to
the west to the eastern part of the
world for example China Japan Malaysia
you can see Kenya you can see the low
percentage of acceptance of homosexuals
among society on the other end on the
contrary if we’ll go to the western part
of the world we can see a slight
elevation of acceptance
let’s take Britain for example 76%
let’s take Canada 80% or even Israel my
country more than forty I just want to
make an announcement at 40 for me does
not represent a high number
unfortunately legality of homosexuality
has been a long issue around the world
many lawyers judges humanists are
dealing with it on a daily basis many
you can see some kind of a table that
represents the punishment that you can
get from some in some of those countries
I want to draw your attention to
Pakistan to Kenya to Nigeria in a jury
can get up until 14 years in jail for
being a homosexual I want to draw it
into Iran
the law in Iran says that if a
homosexual was caught in the middle of
Iraq an act you can be hanged to death
or stone to justice but Iran is a bit
more special in this case and why if you
are enormous sexual in Iran you have two
choices the first one to have the proper
punishment to be incarcerated the second
one the government will pay for a sex
reassignment surgery from male to female
so homosexuals can continue your life
not in prison but in a different body
but just one problem here there’s a
difference between gender identity and
sexual orientation and taking those four
homosexuals and coughing them and
holding them inside the body that is not
theirs
is even worse than their for some people
but what is the first permanent of
homosexuality when did we first come
across it Miami you can see it cave
painting and it was discovering what’s
known to be today Czech Republic 5000
years ago with the first remnant in
history of homosexual behavior you can
see two men and according to the
artifacts that were found inside this
cave fatty structure there’s no doubt
those two men were lovers and were too
afraid did they hide probably not
because the picture banned me doesn’t
leave any hints for hiding or for being
afraid
all of us know the Greek mythology all
of us know the stories about ancient
Rome those stories are quite familiar
those stories are already quite bored
but it’s my job to bring in new stories
something that not many people know I
want us to take some kind of a journey
across history I won’t have to go to
America in the pre-columbian era during
the pre-columbian era Columbus has
arrived to America and it found the
Native Americans what he called them
Indians unfortunately the reason he
called them Indians actually is because
he thought he found a new path to India
but he didn’t was just confused they
found that they have this beautiful
ceremony called the two-spirit dance
bringing two men in a holy matrimony
and I want to remind you it’s not 50
years ago not 20 years ago hundreds of
years ago this acceptance was somewhere
there people did accept one each other
but this spirit dance the beautiful
spirit Dance of the Native American had
to stop once the Spanish Spanish
occupation is arrived to the u.s. let’s
go to a bit more interesting story I
want to take draw attention to Egypt
let’s take a journey across time while
the Egyptian people wasn’t so sure if
on the story on the cafe sorry on the
picture again you can see a remnant from
a historical cave two men that had two
families two officers in the Egyptian
army ramit in a name
who – teleca’s both of them at the
heterosexual line at children but they
were lovers of each other they were
married in such position didn’t leave
any idea or any question about they were
lovers are not so we’re sure about it
let us jump to the next one where this
miss conception where this fear of
homosexuals started religion we have
three big monotheistic religions
nowadays Judaism Christianity and Islam
the first mark of antiques almost sexual
acceptance or this acceptance
was in Judaism the Book of Leviticus
chapter 18 r2 thou shall not lie with
mankind as with womankind it is
abomination
and then his special Journal of religion
is started all across the world do Damon
Judaism is spread and then Christianity
is spread the birth of Christ brought
with him the spread of the new testimony
and then if them later on but it wasn’t
until the Crusaders during the Crusades
between the 11th century to the 13th
century that brought this this
acceptance and demolition of homosexual
behavior among different people in
Europe and throughout the world I just
want you to understand that acceptance
was there at some point and I have
nothing against religion I come from a
religion family and I think it’s very
important to say that
but we need to understand the fact that
some words among other people
other people
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origin the $1,000,000 question so
probably many of you think that
homosexuality is something that we catch
maybe some of you think that
homosexuality is something that we
choose some people came up to me and
said you chose to be homosexual well I
didn’t but what is the origin it’s a
huge topic nowadays people from all over
the world are exploring this looking
deep inside the possible reason we have
some assuming about genetic factors
hormones pure organizational factors and
maybe the basic one the biographical
biographical ones and psychosocial
factors I’m going to focus on two today
the one is a genetic factor the second
one you’ll see in a second so without
getting into too many details about
medicine complicated scientific terms
we have two chromosomes male have two
x’s and women female an x and y so it
was proven and found that on the long
arm of the x on bend number 28
there’s in genetic material that
correlates with almost 55% of almost
sexuals around the world but what is it
what is this genetic material exactly I
mean if it was purely genetic wouldn’t
we see it in all homosexuals 100% let’s
raise another question
twin brothers identical twins that were
born at the same time in the same home
if one of them is gay the chance of the
second one to be gay is 52% some people
say 51
and I want to raise the question again
if it is a genetic factor why don’t we
see a higher percentage one at ninety
unless it is a genetic factor why don’t
we see reduction with time I mean what’s
the point of us being here we want to
breathe we want to spread Homo sapiens
have been known to spread around because
we are the one who’s rolling now we are
the ones who were ruling earth at the
moment but if it is a genetic factor
why didn’t evolution demolish it while
we can see it in more than 1500 species
of animals
it’s a question that no one can ask no
I’m going to move to a new more
controversial idea
the virus type a thousand odd pesetas by
mr. Gregory Cochran from the University
of Utah so if it wasn’t for Gregory we
wouldn’t be I wouldn’t even be here
because I think that this idea has
opened me to a different higher level of
understanding
Gregory claimed that a pathogen can
actually change the way you think a
virus or a germ the gut into your body
set on your mind inside your brain or
even your blood and made this kind of
change the change
your basic sexual orientation that was
destined by nature it explains the
versatility we can see it we can see
homosexuals around the world in
different percentage in the US you can
see 6% in Israel we can see 11 here in
Britain sorry here in Hungary we can see
so it can explain the versatility if we
follow the pathogenic movements of
viruses and germs but I would do we
catch it do we catch it while we’re in
the womb do we catch it when we’re 4 or
5 is it on just a part of a basic
exceptin so if we do have this virus in
our body do we need do we need a genetic
factor as well do we need a biographical
factor do we need a special interaction
with our parents like Freud said at a
time
who knows behind me you can see a
picture from a very known film Titanic
Jack and Rose who doesn’t know it very
taxi very emotional but still to many
Oscars and also we can see Beyonce and
ladies please do not raise your hand if
you’re single why am I talking about
those two what is the connection between
Beyonce and Titanic well I want to draw
attention to the PET scan behind me more
than 1,000 km n heterosexual men gay
women and heterosexual women were part
of a conducted research about the way
that we react to outer stimulation music
films speeches
when showing Titanic or listening to
Beyonce my mind works different than the
mind of the girl in the audience the
mind of the girl in the audience works
different in the mind of the goddesses
on the first row but we can see a very
unique correlation it will take a look
you’ll see when playing music or certain
films the areas in the heterosexual male
brain correlates to a gay female brain
and the male and the male homosexual
brain correlates to a female
heterosexual brain so we have this kind
of pattern in here why do I react
different the natural sexual male it’s a
question to be asked and people are
still looking for the answer another
research it was conducted in the u.s.
not too long ago took part with 450 men
some of them were gay they didn’t know
each other before and they were placed
in a room with a glass barrier in
between
when a man stood in front of the men he
asked them to not to ask or to guess if
it’s a homosexual without saying any
world without saying without giving any
gesture
more than 83% of those people have
managed to recognize the other game how
without even talking without even
winking what is it
it lets us gain man recognize each other
in society it is kind of a mechanism
who knows but why did this need of
pathologizing homosexuality why as a
society we want to understand why and
how and how many what is it about
homosexuals that give us this reluctancy
it doesn’t let us understand maybe just
nature’s variant it’s another humans
variant of sexuality maybe that’s the
point maybe it’s supposed to bring us to
be more united by this fear of
homosexuals like a spoke at the
beginning bring me to my last stop on my
talk I want to talk about myself I came
out at the age of seven to myself but I
came out as a homosexual at the age of
22 acceptance was zero but here comes a
time in one’s life or stand in front of
a mirror and initial realize to
understand to accept himself
I didn’t choose to be gay that’s what I
keep saying but I did choose this way of
living instead of hiding that’s why I’m
standing in front of you today
probably ten percent of the audience is
gay some of them are in the closet some
of them are out of the closet but here
even in this special country are studies
where you need to raise the voices of
acceptance of homosexuals for us to
realizing that you live among them they
are not different they’re exactly like
you know them before if it’s your best
friend maybe it’s your teacher who knows
when I came out with in the army Leslie
was my kind of
it feels like a refugee trying the way
to the army this very strong feeling
made me who I am today
and I’m standing here in front of you
today and I’m asking you if you know one
if you think about one don’t be afraid
except one day your child your daughter
will be gay what will you do
thank you very much [Applause]