iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: David J. Kreps Finnemann Reviewer: Anders Finn Jørgensen

Human beings start putting each other into boxes

Mennesker begynder at sætte hinanden i kasser

the second that they see each other --

lige så snart de ser hinanden --

Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?

Er den person farlig? Er de attraktive?

Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?

Er de en potentiel mage? Er de en potentiel networking mulighed?

We do this little interrogation when we meet people

Vi laver dette lille forhør når vi møder mennesker

to make a mental resume for them.

for at lave et mentalt resume over dem.

What's your name? Where are you from?

Hvad er dit navn? Hvor kommer du fra?

How old are you? What do you do?

Hvor gammel er du? Hvad laver du?

Then we get more personal with it.

Så bliver vi mere personlige med det.

Have you ever had any diseases?

Har du nogensinde haft nogen sygdomme?

Have you ever been divorced?

Er du nogensinde blevet skilt?

Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?

Lugter din ånde dårligt mens du svarer på mit forhør lige nu?

What are you into? Who are you into?

Hvad kan du lide? Hvem kan du lide?

What gender do you like to sleep with?

Hvilket køn går du i seng med?

I get it.

Jeg forstår det.

We are neurologically hardwired

Vi er neurologisk sammensat

to seek out people like ourselves.

til at finde mennesker lige som os selv.

We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough

Vi begynder at forme klikker lige så snart vi er gamle nok

to know what acceptance feels like.

til at vide hvordan accept føles.

We bond together based on anything that we can --

Vi knytter os sammen baseret på hvad som helst --

music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

musik præference, køn, stedet vi voksede op.

We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.

Vi søger miljøer der forstærker vores personlige valg.

Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"

Nogle gange dog, bare spørgsmålet "hvad laver du?"

can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box

kan føles som om nogen åbner en lille bitte kasse

and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.

og beder en om at klemme sig ned i den.

Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.

Fordi kategorierne, har jeg fundet ud af, er for begrænsende.

The boxes are too narrow.

Kasserne er for små.

And this can get really dangerous.

Og dette kan blive virkelig farligt.

So here's a disclaimer about me, though,

Så her er et dementi om mig, dog,

before we get too deep into this.

inden vi kan gå dybere ned i dette.

I grew up in a very sheltered environment.

Jeg voksede op i et meget beskyttet miljø.

I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,

Jeg voksede op i downtown Manhattan i starten af 1980'erne,

two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.

to gader fra punk musikkens epicenter.

I was shielded from the pains of bigotry

Jeg blev afskærmet for smerten ved snæversynethed

and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.

og de sociale restriktioner af en religiøs baseret opdragelse.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker

Hvor jeg kommer fra, hvis man ikke var drag queen eller radikal tænker

or a performance artist of some kind,

eller en performance kunstner af en eller anden art,

you were the weirdo.

var man en særling.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

It was an unorthodox upbringing,

Det var en uortodoks opvækst,

but as a kid on the streets of New York,

men som et barn på gaderne i New York,

you learn how to trust your own instincts,

lærer man at stole på sine instinkter,

you learn how to go with your own ideas.

man lærer hvordan man skal følge sine egne ideer.

So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.

Så da jeg var seks, besluttede jeg at jeg ville være en dreng.

I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.

Jeg gik i skole en dag og børnene ville ikke lade mig spille basketball med dem.

They said they wouldn't let girls play.

De sagde at de ikke ville lade pigerne spille.

So I went home, and I shaved my head,

Så jeg tog hjem, og jeg barberede mit hoved,

and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."

og jeg kom tilbage dagen efter og sagde, "Jeg er en dreng."

I mean, who knows, right?

Jeg mener, hvem ved, ikke?

When you're six, maybe you can do that.

Når man er seks, kan man måske gøre det.

I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.

Jeg ville ikke have at nogen vidste jeg var en pige, og det gjorde de ikke.

I kept up the charade for eight years.

Jeg holdte facaden i otte år.

So this is me when I was 11.

Sådan så jeg ud da jeg var 11.

I was playing a kid named Walter

Jeg spillede en dreng der hedder Walter

in a movie called "Julian Po."

i en film der hedder "Julian Po."

I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.

Jeg var en lille skrap fyr der fulgte Christian Slater rundt og plagede ham konstant.

See, I was also a child actor,

Så, jeg var også en barneskuespiller,

which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,

hvilket fordoblede lagene af opførelsen af min identitet,

because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.

fordi ingen vidste at jeg faktisk var en pige der spillede en dreng.

In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --

Faktisk, vidste ingen i mit liv at jeg var en pige --

not my teachers at school, not my friends,

ikke mine lærere på skolen, ikke mine venner,

not the directors that I worked with.

ikke de instruktører jeg arbejdede med.

Kids would often come up to me in class

Børnene ville tit komme op til mig i klassen

and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple

og tage fat i min hals for at se efter et adamsæble,

or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.

eller tage fat i mit skridt for at se hvad jeg arbejdede med.

When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls

Når jeg gik på toilettet, ville jeg vende mine sko i båsen,

so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.

så det lignede at jeg stod op og tissede.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks

Når jeg sov hos andre, ville jeg få panikanfald

trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me

over at prøve at fortælle pigerne at de ikke skulle kysse mig

without outing myself.

uden at røbe mig selv.

It's worth mentioning though

Det er dog værd at nævne

that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.

at jeg ikke hadede min krop eller mine kønsorganer.

I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.

Jeg havde det ikke som om jeg var i den forkerte krop.

I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.

Jeg havde det som om jeg opførte denne komplicerede optræden.

I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.

Jeg ville ikke have kvalificeret mig som transkønnet.

If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,

Hvis min familie, dog, havde været den slags der tror på terapi,

they probably would have diagnosed me

ville de nok have diagnosticeret mig

as something like gender dysmorphic

som noget lignende køns dysmorfisk

and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

og sætte mig på hormoner for at udsætte puberteten.

But in my particular case,

I just woke up one day when I was 14,

Men i mit særlige tilfælde,

vågnede jeg bare en dag da jeg var 14,

and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.

og jeg besluttede mig for at jeg ville være en pige igen.

Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,

Puberteten havde ramt mig, og jeg havde ingen anelse om hvad det betød at være en pige,

and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.

og jeg var klar til at finde ud af hvem jeg egentlig var.

When a kid behaves like I did,

Når et barn opfører sig på den måde,

they don't exactly have to come out, right?

behøver de ikke helt at komme ud, vel?

No one is exactly shocked.

Det er ikke fordi nogen er chokerede.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.

Men jeg blev ikke bedt om at definere mig selv af mine forældre.

When I was 15, and I called my father

Da jeg var 15, og jeg ringede til min far

to tell him that I had fallen in love,

for at fortælle ham at jeg var blevet forelsket,

it was the last thing on either of our minds

var det det sidste i nogen af vores tanker

to discuss what the consequences were

at diskutere hvad konsekvenserne var

of the fact that my first love was a girl.

af det faktum, at min første kærlighed var en pige.

Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,

Tre år senere, da jeg blev forelsket i en mand,

neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.

mine forældre blinkede heller ikke med øjnene.

See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood

Så, det er en af de store velsignelser af min meget uortodokse opdragelse

that I wasn't ever asked to define myself

at jeg aldrig blev bedt om at definere mig selv

as any one thing at any point.

som en bestemt ting på noget tidspunkt.

I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.

Jeg fik bare lov til at være mig, og voksede og ændrede mig hvert øjeblik.

So four, almost five years ago,

Så for fire, næsten fem år siden,

Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,

Proposition 8, den store ægteskabs-lighedsdebat,

was raising a lot of dust around this country.

skabte en masse uro rundt om i landet.

And at the time, getting married wasn't really something

Og på det tidspunkt, var det at blive gift ikke rigtig noget

I spent a lot of time thinking about.

som jeg havde brugt meget tid på at tænke over.

But I was struck by the fact that America,

Men jeg blev ramt af det faktum at USA,

a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,

et land med så blakket en borgerrettighedshistorie,

could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.

kunne gentage sine fejl så åbenlyst.

And I remember watching the discussion on television

Og jeg kan huske at jeg så diskussionen på tv

and thinking how interesting it was

og tænkte hvor interessant det var

that the separation of church and state

at adskillelsen af kirke og stat

was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,

dybest set tegne geografiske grænser gennem dette land,

between places where people believed in it

mellem steder hvor mennesker troede på det

and places where people didn't.

og steder hvor mennesker ikke gjorde.

And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.

Og så, at denne diskussion optegnede geografiske grænser rundt om mig.

If this was a war with two disparate sides,

Hvis dette var en krig med to sider,

I, by default, fell on team gay,

var jeg i mangel af bedre, på det homoseksuelle hold,

because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.

fordi jeg var bestemt ikke 100 procent hetero.

At the time I was just beginning to emerge

På det tidspunkt begyndte jeg lige at komme ud af

from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag

denne otte årige personlige identitetskrise zigzag

that saw me go from being a boy

der tog mig fra at være en dreng

to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes

til at være denne akavede pige der lignede en dreng i pigetøj

to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,

til den modsatte ekstreme af denne super karrige,

over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl

overkompenserende, drengejagende pigede pige

to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,

for til slut at have en tøvende udforskning af hvad jeg faktisk var,

a tomboyish girl

en drengepige

who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.

der både kunne lide drenge og piger, afhængig af personen.

I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,

Jeg brugte et år på at fotografere denne nye generation af piger, ligesom mig selv,

who fell kind of between-the-lines --

der på en måde faldt mellem linjerne --

girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,

piger der stod på skateboard men gjorde det i blondeundertøj,

girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,

piger der havde drengefrisurer men havde piget neglelak på,

girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,

piger der havde mascara der matchede skrabede knæ,

girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls

piger der kunne lide piger og drenge alle kunne lide drenge og piger

who all hated being boxed in to anything.

der alle hadede at blive sat i enhver form for kasse.

I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,

Jeg elskede disse mennesker, og jeg beundrede deres frihed,

but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble

men jeg så på mens verden udenfor vores utopiske boble

exploded into these raging debates

eksploderede i disse voldsomme debatter

where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.

hvor de pingerne begyndte at sammenligne vores kærlighed med sodomi på landsdækkende tv.

And this powerful awareness rolled in over me

Og denne kraftige opmærksomhed rullede ind over mig

that I was a minority, and in my own home country,

at jeg var en minoritet, og i mit eget hjemland,

based on one facet of my character.

baseret på en facet af min karakter.

I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

Jeg var lovligt og utvetydigt en andenrangsborger.

I was not an activist.

Jeg var ikke en aktivist.

I wave no flags in my own life.

Jeg flager ikke med nogen flag i mit eget liv.

But I was plagued by this question:

Men jeg var plaget af dette spørgsmål:

How could anyone vote to strip the rights

Hvordan kunne nogen stemme for at fjerne rettighederne

of the vast variety of people that I knew

af dens store mængde mennesker som jeg kendte

based on one element of their character?

baseret på et element af deres karakter?

How could they say that we as a group

Hvordan kunne de sige at vi som en gruppe

were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?

ikke fortjente lige rettigheder ligesom alle andre?

Were we even a group? What group?

Var vi overhovedet en gruppe? Hvilken gruppe?

And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?

Og havde disse mennesker overhovedet bevidst mødt et offer for deres diskrimination?

Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?

Vidste de hvem de stemte imod og hvad virkningen var?

And then it occurred to me,

Og så gik det op for mig,

perhaps if they could look into the eyes

måske hvis de kunne kigge ind i øjnene

of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship

på de mennesker som de fordømte i andenrangs borgerskab

it might make it harder for them to do.

ville det måske gøre det sværere for dem at gøre det.

It might give them pause.

Det ville måske få dem til at tænke over det.

Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,

Jeg kunne selvfølgelig ikke få 20 millioner mennesker til det samme middagsselskab,

so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically

så jeg fandt på en måde hvor jeg kunne introducere dem for hinanden fotografisk

without any artifice, without any lighting,

uden nogen kunstighed, uden nogen belysning,

or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.

eller uden nogen manipulation af nogen form fra min side.

Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers

Fordi i et fotografi kan man undersøge en løves knurhår

without the fear of him ripping your face off.

uden at være bange for at han flænser ens ansigt.

For me, photography is not just about exposing film,

For mig, er fotografi ikke kun om at udvikle film,

it's about exposing the viewer

det handler om at udsætte seeren

to something new, a place they haven't gone before,

for noget nyt, et sted som de ikke har været før,

but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

men vigtigst af alt, for mennesker de måske er bange for.

Life magazine introduced generations of people

Magasinet Life introducerede generationer af mennesker

to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.

til fjerne, fremmede kulturer de aldrig vidste eksisterede gennem billeder.

So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,

Så jeg besluttede mig for at lave en serie af meget simple portrætter,

mugshots if you will.

forbryderbilleder, om man vil.

And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country

Og jeg besluttede dybest set at fotografere enhver i dette land

that was not 100 percent straight,

der ikke var 100 procent hetero,

which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.

hvilket, hvis I ikke er klar over det, er et uendeligt antal mennesker.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

So this was a very large undertaking,

Så dette var en meget stort forehavende,

and to do it we needed some help.

og for at gøre det havde vi brug for hjælp.

So I ran out in the freezing cold,

Så jeg løb ud i den bidende kulde,

and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to

og jeg fotograferede hver eneste person som jeg vidste at jeg kunne komme til

in February of about two years ago.

i februar for cirka to år siden.

And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.

Og jeg tog disse billeder, og jeg tog til HRC og jeg bad dem om noget hjælp.

And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.

Og de financierede to ugers billeder i New York.

And then we made this.

Og vi lavede denne.

(Music)

(Musik)

Video: I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.

Video: Jeg er iO Tillet Wright, og jeg er en artist der er født og opvokset i New York City.

(Music)

(Musik)

Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.

Self Evident Truth er en fotografisk journal over LGBTQ Amerika i dag.

My aim is to take a simple portrait

Mit mål er at tage simple portrætter

of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight

af enhver der er andet end 100 procent hetero

or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.

eller føler at de falder indenfor LGBTQ spektrummet på nogen måder.

My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us

Mit mål er at vise det til menneskeheden der eksisterer i os alle

through the simplicity of a face.

gennem simpelheden i et ansigt.

(Music)

(Musik)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."

"Vi anser disse sandheder for selvindlysende, at alle mennesker er skabt lige."

It's written in the Declaration of Independence.

Det står skrevet i uafhængighedserklæringen.

We are failing as a nation

Vi fejler som nation

to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.

med at opretholde de moralske principper som vi er grundlagt på.

There is no equality in the United States.

Der er ikke nogen lighed i USA.

["What does equality mean to you?"]

["Hvad betyder lighed for dig?]

["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]

["Ægteskab"] ["Frihed"] ["Civile rettigheder"]

["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]

["Behandl hver eneste person som man ville behandle sig selv"]

It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.

Det er når man ikke behøver at tænke over det, så simpelt er det.

The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.

Kampen for lige rettigheder er handler ikke kun om homoægteskaber.

Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,

I dag i 29 stater, mere end halvdelen af landet,

you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.

kan man blive fyret lovligt udelukkende på grund af ens seksualitet.

["Who is responsible for equality?"]

["Hvem er ansvarlig for lighed?"]

I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:

Jeg har hørt hundredevis af mennesker give det samme svar:

"We are all responsible for equality."

"Vi er alle ansvarlige for lighed."

So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.

Indtil videre har vi fanget 300 ansigter i New York City.

And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it

Og det ville vi ikke have været i stand til at gøre

without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.

uden den gavmilde støtte af Human Rights Campaign.

I want to take the project across the country.

Jeg vil tage projektet med tværs hen over landet.

I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.

Jeg vil besøge 25 amerikanske byer, og jeg vil fange 4.000 eller 5.000 mennesker.

This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.

Dette er mit bidrag til min generations civilrettighedskamp.

I challenge you to look into the faces of these people

Jeg udfordrer jeg til at se på ansigterne af disse mennesker

and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.

og fortælle dem at de fortjener mindre end noget andet menneske.

(Music)

(Musik)

["Self evident truths"]

["Selvindlysende sandheder"]

["4,000 faces across America"]

["4.000 ansigter i hele USA"]

(Music)

(Musik)

(Applause)

(Bifald)

iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.

iO Tillett Wright: Der er absolut ikke noget der kunne have forberedt os på hvad der skete efter det.

Almost 85,000 people watched that video,

Næsten 85.000 mennesker så den video,

and then they started emailing us from all over the country,

og så begyndte de at emaile os fra hele landet,

asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.

og bad os om at komme til deres by og hjælpe dem med at vise deres ansigter.

And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.

Og mange flere mennesker ville vise deres ansigter end jeg havde troet.

So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.

Så jeg ændrede mit mål til 10.000 ansigter.

That video was made in the spring of 2011,

Den video blev lavet i foråret 2011,

and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities

og til i dag har jeg rejst til næsten 20 byer

and photographed almost 2,000 people.

og fotograferet næsten 2.000 mennesker.

I know that this is a talk,

Jeg ved at dette er et foredrag,

but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet

men jeg vil gerne have et minut bare med stilhed

and have you just look at these faces

og have jer til at kigge på disse ansigter

because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.

fordi der er ikke noget jeg kan sige der vil tilføje noget til dem.

Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,

Fordi hvis et billede siger mere end tusinde ord,

then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.

så har et billede af et ansigt brug for et helt nyt ordforråd.

So after traveling and talking to people

Så efter at have rejst og talt med mennesker

in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,

i steder som Oklahoma eller den lille by Texas,

we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.

fandt vi beviser for at den første antagelse var helt rigtig.

Visibility really is key.

Synlighed er virkelig afgørende.

Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.

Fortrolighed er virkelig passage midlet til empati.

Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,

Når et emne først dukker frem i ens egen baghave eller i ens egen familie,

you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it

er der meget større sandsynlighed for at man udvikler sympati for det

or explore a new perspective on it.

eller udvikler et nyt perspektiv på det.

Of course, in my travels I met people

Selvfølgelig, i mine rejser mødte jeg mennesker

who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,

der skilte sig lovligt fra deres børn for at være andet end hetero,

but I also met people who were Southern Baptists

men jeg mødte også mennesker der var Southern Baptists

who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.

der skiftede kirke fordi deres barn var lesbisk.

Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.

Strålende empati blev rygraden i Self Evident Truths.

But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:

Men her er hvad jeg begyndte at lære der er virkelig interessant:

Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.

Indlysende sandheder fjerner ikke forskellene mellem os.

In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.

Faktisk, tværtimod, fremhæver det dem.

It presents, not just the complexities

Det præsenterer, ikke kun kompleksiteterne

found in a procession of different human beings,

der er i en procession af forskellige mennesker,

but the complexities found within each individual person.

men de kompleksiteter der findes i hver eneste individ.

It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.

Det var ikke at vi havde for mange kasser, det var det at vi havde for få.

At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,

På et tidspunkt blev jeg klar over at min mission at fotografere "homoer" var gennemgående fejlramt,

because there were a million different shades of gay.

fordi der var en million forskellige afskygninger af homo.

Here I was trying to help,

Her prøvede jeg at hjælpe,

and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --

og jeg havde foreviget den ting som jeg havde brugt hele mit liv på at prøve at undgå --

yet another box.

endnu en kasse.

At some point I added a question to the release form

På et tidspunkt tilføjede jeg et spørgsmål til aftaleblanketten

that asked people to quantify themselves

der bad mennesker om at kvantificere sig selv

on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.

på en skala fra et til 100 procent homoseksuel.

And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.

Og jeg så rigtig mange eksistentielle kriser udfolde sig foran mig.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

People didn't know what to do

Mennesker vidste ikke hvad de skulle gøre

because they had never been presented with the option before.

fordi de var aldrig blevet præsenteret for en mulighed før.

Can you quantify your openness?

Kan man kvantificere ens åbenhed?

Once they got over the shock, though,

Når de kommer sig over chokket, dog,

by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent

valgte mennesker i det store og hele at stemme mellem 70 til 95 procent

or the 3 to 20 percent marks.

eller 3 og 20 procent mærkerne.

Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,

Selvfølgelig, der var masser af mennesker der valgte 100 procent det ene eller det andet,

but I found that a much larger proportion of people

men jeg opdagede at en meget større del af menneskene

identified as something that was much more nuanced.

identificerede sig som noget der var meget mere nuanceret.

I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."

Jeg opdagede at de fleste mennesker falder i et spektrum som jeg henviser til som "Grey." ["Gråt"]

Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --

Lad mig dog være tydelig -- og dette er meget vigtigt --

in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.

jeg siger på ingen måde, at præference ikke eksisterer.

And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,

Og jeg vil ikke engang adressere emnet om valg kontra biologisk nødvendighed,

because if any of you happen to be of the belief

fordi hvis nogen af jer skulle være af den tro

that sexual orientation is a choice,

at seksuel orientering er at valg,

I invite you to go out and try to be grey.

inviterer jeg jer til at gå ud og prøve at være grå.

I'll take your picture just for trying.

Jeg vil tage jeres billede bare fordi I prøver.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

What I am saying though is that human beings are not one-dimensional.

Det jeg dog prøver at sige er, at mennesker er ikke en-dimensionelle.

The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:

Det vigtigste at lære fra procent systemet er dette:

If you have gay people over here

Hvis man har homoseksuelle mennesker herover

and you have straight people over here,

og man har heteroseksuelle mennesker herovre,

and while we recognize that most people identify

og mens vi anerkender at de fleste mennesker identificerer

as somewhere closer to one binary or another,

sig som værende tættere på en pol eller en anden,

there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.

så er der et stort spektrum af mennesker der eksisterer i mellem.

And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.

Og den virkelighed som dette repræsenterer, er en kompliceret en.

Because, for example, if you pass a law

Fordi, for eksempel, hvis man vedtager en lov

that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,

der tillader chefer at fyre en medarbejder for homoseksuel adfærd,

where exactly do you draw the line?

hvor trækker man præcist grænsen?

Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?

Er det herovre, ved de mennesker der har haft en eller to heteroseksuelle erfaringer indtil videre?

Or is it over here

Eller er det herovre

by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?

ved de mennesker der kun har haft en eller to homoseksuelle erfaringer indtil videre?

Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?

Hvor præcist bliver man en andenrangsborger?

Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels

En anden interessant ting som jeg lærte fra mit projekt og mine rejser

is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.

er hvor dårlig et bindemiddel seksuel orientering egentlig er.

After traveling so much and meeting so many people,

Efter at have rejst så meget og mødt så mange mennesker,

let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts

lad mig fortælle jer, der er lige så mange fjolser og skatter

and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens

og demokrater og republikanere og sportsidioter og dronninger

and every other polarization you can possibly think of

og enhver anden polarisering som man overhovedet kan tænke på

within the LGBT community

indenfor LGBT samfundet

as there are within the human race.

som der er indenfor den menneskelige race.

Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,

Bortset fra faktummet at vi leger med den ene lovfæstede hånd bundet bag ryggen,

and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,

og når man kommer forbi den delte fortælling om fordomme og kamp,

just being other than straight

bare at være andet end hetero

doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.

betyder ikke nødvendigvis at vi har noget som helst til fælles.

So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,

Så i den endeløse udbredelse af ansigter som Self Evident Truths altid bliver til,

as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,

i takt med at det forhåbentligt dukker op på flere og flere platforme,

bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,

busskure, reklametavler, Facebook sider, pauseskærme,

perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,

måske ved at se denne procession af menneskelighed,

something interesting and useful will begin to happen.

vil der begynde at ske noget interessant og brugbart.

Hopefully these categories, these binaries,

Forhåbentligt vil disse kategorier, disse poler,

these over-simplified boxes

disse over-simplificerede kasser

will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.

begynde at blive ubrugelige og de vil begynde at falde væk.

Because really, they describe nothing that we see

Fordi i virkeligheden beskriver de ikke noget vi ser

and no one that we know and nothing that we are.

og ingen som vi kender og ikke noget vi er.

What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.

Det vi ser er mennesker i al deres mangfoldighed.

And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.

Og at se dem gør det sværere at benægte deres menneskelighed.

At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.

Jeg håber det som minimum vil gøre det sværere at benægte deres menneskerettigheder.

So is it me particularly

Så er det specielt mig

that you would choose to deny the right to housing,

som man ville vælge at nægte rettigheder til bolig,

the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,

retten til at adoptere børn, retten til ægteskab,

the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?

friheden til at shoppe her, leve her, købe her?

Am I the one that you choose to disown

Er jeg den som man vælger at slå hånden af

as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,

som ens barn eller ens bror eller ens søster eller ens mor eller ens far,

your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,

ens nabo, ens kusine, ens onkel, præsidenten,

your police woman or the fireman?

ens politikvinde eller brandmanden?

It's too late.

Det er for sent.

Because I already am all of those things.

Fordi jeg er allerede alle de ting.

We already are all of those things, and we always have been.

Vi er allerede alle de ting, og det har vi altid været.

So please don't greet us as strangers,

Så modtag os venligst ikke som fremmede,

greet us as your fellow human beings, period.

modtag os som jeres medmennesker, punktum.

Thank you.

Tak.

(Applause)

(Bifald)