Photography Series by the LGBT Support Group

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Keywords: Stereotypes, Alternative lifestyles, Photography, Poetry, LGBTQ and Support groups

Stereotypes play an important role in daily suffering. Especially when you belong to a minority. The majority can easily fall into humiliation games towards the minority, which can lead to depression or worse. It takes then a huge amount of courage to be who we are again, to accept ourselves fully, and - one step further - to let ourselves shine in society.

The struggle to accept ourselves is even greater when parts of who we are show on the outside, in a way that bothers some narrow-minded people.

What we want to express through this photography series is that, while it is easy to label someone from their behavioror outfit, such labelling doesn’t really mean anything at all.

It is not because I am a girl that I cannot play football.

It is not because I am a boy that I should not be interested in fashion.

It is not because I am a woman that I should not wear big shirts.

It is not because I am a man that I cannot wear tight jeans.

It is not because I am a woman in love with another woman, that I am after all women.

It is not because I am a guy who has a lot of style and sensitivity, that I am gay.

It is not because I dress like all other men that I don’t go back at night to my boyfriend.

And it is not because I conform that I am going to be happy.

Love is.


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