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cutting the m/m kisses like this might not seem like the biggest deal (oh the original still exists just watch it on Netflix or something!) but itâs indicative of the homophobia still deeply pervasive in desi culture and itâs something that affects my life every single day- https://twitter.com/comedycentralin/status/1107964091769847809
as a first generation immigrant and someone who spent a quarter of every year in India for most of my life. itâs apparent in the way my mom told me to change the channel when someone said the word lesbian because it was a âbad wordâ.-
itâs apparent in the way that my dad said âI hate gay peopleâ absolutely unprompted just thinking about our neighbors that were a married gay couple. itâs apparent in the way they whisper about the daughter of a family friend that got married to another woman.-
itâs apparent in the way that my parents and their friends denounced the only queer representation we got in bollywood movies by calling the movies disgusting and terrible. itâs obvious who the networks are trying to censor for-
and itâs the type of people who raised me, who have made it so that I can live on the east coast of the US and still feel like I have to live a lie and never come out to them, feel like Iâll have to spend the rest of my days suffocated by the lies and secrecy-
that wonât let me find the kind of love I want or live the kind of life I want. Iâm so grateful to dan and schittâs creek for not giving homophobia any kind of platform and creating a world we can aspire to live in someday but itâs obvious that we have a lot of catching up to do.
