Fun & Famous

‘WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON HOMOSEXUALITY?’

by Kalinka Hählen

As I unsuspectingly left the food department of Marks & Spencer yesterday (O, why must you go? We love your food!), a girl suddenly entered my space with a very strange question. “What is your opinion on homosexuality?”, she wanted to know. I said a few times uuuh, eeh, uuh, while I hurriedly walked on – you’d better get away from street talkers as quickly as possible, before you don’t dare to say that you actually have no time or interest for this and have to listen to someone’s conviction tirade for half an hour – to eventually answer: “Well, everything, but I don’t have time right now.” The question caught me off guard. I don’t really have an opinion on it at all.

I have an opinion on many things, that’s not the bottleneck. But what threw me off so much is the fact that homosexuality is something you don’t need or even have to have an opinion about. Not even: ‘I have no problem with it’. Because that implies that you consider homosexuality as something extraordinary, which you tolerate as a ‘good person’. It may not be meant badly, but still. Homosexuality is. There’s nothing to find about it. Asking for my opinion on it is the same as asking if I have an opinion about the fact that people are born. Or asking for my opinion about grass growing and flowers blooming. Or what I think about anemia – yes, no, anemia really needs to stop, this fuss with those low HB values that no one benefits from! What does anemia think it is?

“Well, everything, but I have
no time right now”

Homosexuality is not something to have an opinion about. What a silly idea. It just is. Just like people. And animals. And heterosexuality. And bisexuality. And everything and everyone on the LGBTQHA spectrum. People fall in love. And with whom is completely up to me – it seems to me that what’s most important is that you are happy with your choice, that the love is mutual, and that you are happy in love. Because everyone deserves happiness.