iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevoditelj: Senzos Osijek Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

Human beings start putting each other into boxes

Ljudska bića se svrstavaju u okvire

the second that they see each other --

one sekunde kad ugledaju jedno drugog. –

Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?

Je li ta osoba opasna? Jesu li privlačne?

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

Jesu li potencijalan par? Jesu li potencijalna prilika za druženje?

We do this little interrogation when we meet people

Ovakvo malo ispitivanje radimo kada upoznajemo ljude

to make a mental resume for them.

kako bismo napravili umni sažetak što se njih tiče.

What's your name? Where are you from?

Kako se zoveš? Odakle si?

How old are you? What do you do?

Koliko godina imaš? Što radiš?

Then we get more personal with it.

Nakon toga postajemo intimniji.

Have you ever had any diseases?

Jesi li ikada imao kakve bolesti?

Have you ever been divorced?

Jesi li se ikada razveo?

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

Da li ti dah zaudara dok mi odgovaraš na ova pitanja?

What are you into? Who are you into?

Što te interesira? Tko te interesira?

What gender do you like to sleep with?

S kojim spolom voliš spavati?

I get it.

Shvaćam.

We are neurologically hardwired

Neurološki smo predodređeni

to seek out people like ourselves.

da tražimo ljude slične nama.

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

Počinjemo stvarati grupe čim smo dovoljno odrasli

to know what acceptance feels like.

da znamo kako prihvaćanje izgleda.

We bond together based on anything that we can --

Povezujemo se jedni s drugima na osnovu bilo čega –

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

glazbeni odabir, rasa, spol, kvart u kojem smo odrasli.

We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.

Tražimo okolinu koja učvršćuje naše osobne odabire.

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

Ipak, ponekad samo pitanje „Što radiš?“

can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box

može zvučati kao da netko otvara malu kutijicu

and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.

i traži od vas da se ugurate u nju.

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

Otkrila sam da je to zato što su kategorije previše ograničene.

The boxes are too narrow.

Te kutije su pretijesne.

And this can get really dangerous.

I to može postati stvarno opasno.

So here's a disclaimer about me, though,

Dakle, evo nečeg vezanog uz mene,

before we get too deep into this.

prije no što krenemo dalje.

I grew up in a very sheltered environment.

Odrasla sam u veoma zaštićenoj okolini.

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

Odrasla sam u donjem dijelu Manhattana u ranim osamdesetima,

two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.

dva bloka dalje od središta punk glazbe.

I was shielded from the pains of bigotry

Bila sam zaštićena od bolnih netrpeljivosti

and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.

i društvenih restrikcija što se odgoja tiče nametnutih od onih koji su se bazirali na religiji.

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

Tamo odakle ja dolazim ukoliko niste „tetkica“, radikalni mislioc

or a performance artist of some kind,

ili neka vrsta performera,

you were the weirdo.

bili ste čudak.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

It was an unorthodox upbringing,

Bio je to neortodoksan odgoj

but as a kid on the streets of New York,

no kao dijete na ulicama New Yorka,

you learn how to trust your own instincts,

, naučite kako vjerovati vlastitim instinktima,

you learn how to go with your own ideas.

naučite kako se nositi s vlastitim idejama.

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

Kada mi je bilo šest godina, odlučila sam da želim biti dječak.

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

Jednog sam dana otišla u školu, a djeca mi nisu dala da s njima igram košarku.

They said they wouldn't let girls play.

Rekli su da ne dopuštaju curama da igraju.

So I went home, and I shaved my head,

Otišla sam kući, obrijala glavu,

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

vratila se sljedeći dan i rekla, „Dječak sam.“

I mean, who knows, right?

Mislim, tko zna, zar ne?

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

Kad imate šest godina , možda to možete učiniti.

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

Nisam željela da itko zna da sam djevojčica i nitko nije znao.

I kept up the charade for eight years.

Držala sam se te šarade osam godina.

So this is me when I was 11.

Dakle, ovo sam ja s 11 godina.

I was playing a kid named Walter

Glumila sam dječaka po imenu Walter

in a movie called "Julian Po."

u filmu pod nazivom „Julian Po“.

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

Bila sam žestoka, slijedila Christiana Slatera okolo i gnjavila ga.

See, I was also a child actor,

Vidite, također sam bila dijete-glumac

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

što je udvostručilo razinu nastupa mog identiteta

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

jer nitko nije znao da sam zapravo djevojčica koja glumi dječaka.

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

. Zapravo, nitko tko je bio dio mog života nije znao da sam djevojčica –

not my teachers at school, not my friends,

ni moji učitelji u školi, ni moji prijatelji,

not the directors that I worked with.

, ni redatelji s kojima sam radila.

Kids would often come up to me in class

Djeca bi često došla do mene za vrijeme nastave,

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

zgrabila me za grlo i provjeravala da li imam Adamovu jabučicu

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

ili bi zgrabili moje prepone kako bi provjerili s čime baratam.

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

Kada bih išla na wc, okretala bih svoje cipele prema wc školjci

so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.

kako bi izgledalo da piškim stojeći.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks

Za vrijeme spavanja kod drugih imala bih napadaje panike

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

kako bih omela djevojke u namjeri da me poljube

without outing myself.

bez da se odam.

It's worth mentioning though

Vrijedno je spomena

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

to da nisam mrzila svoje tijelo ni svoje genitalije.

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

Nisam osjećala kao da sam u krivom tijelu.

I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.

Osjećala sam se kao da izvodim razrađenu točku.

I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.

Ne bih se okarakterizirala kao transrodna osoba.

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

Iako, u mojoj je obitelji bilo ljudi koji su vjerovali u terapiju

they probably would have diagnosed me

i vjerojatno bi mi dijagnosticirali

as something like gender dysmorphic

nešto poput spolne dismofije

and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

dismofije i stavili me na hormone da odgode pubertet.

But in my particular case,

I just woke up one day when I was 14,

No u mom slučaju,

jednostavno sam se jednog dana probudila, s 14

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

godina i odlučila da ponovo želim biti djevojka.

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

Pubertet me udario i nisam pojma imala što znači biti djevojka

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

i bila sam spremna otkriti tko sam zapravo.

When a kid behaves like I did,

Kada se dijete ponaša ovako kako sam se ja ponašala,

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

onda se zapravo ne mora otkriti, zar ne?

No one is exactly shocked.

Nitko nije pretjerano šokiran.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

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

No moji me roditelji nisu tražili da se definiram.

When I was 15, and I called my father

Kada sam imala 15 godina i nazvala oca

to tell him that I had fallen in love,

kako bih mu rekla da sam se zaljubila,

it was the last thing on either of our minds

posljednje što nam je na umu bilo je

to discuss what the consequences were

razgovarati o tome koje su posljedice

of the fact that my first love was a girl.

činjenice da je moja prva ljubav bila djevojka.

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

Tri godine kasnije, kada sam se zaljubila u muškarca,

neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.

moji roditelji također nisu okom trepnuli.

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

Vidite, to je jedan velikih blagoslova mog veoma neortodoksnog djetinjstva

that I wasn't ever asked to define myself

što me nitko nije tražio da se definiram

as any one thing at any point.

kao išta u ikojem trenu.

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

Bilo mi je dozvoljeno da to budem ja, rastući i mijenjajući se vakog trenutka.

So four, almost five years ago,

Prije četiri, gotovo pet godina

Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,

Prijedlog 8, velika debata u vezi ravnopravnosti brakova,

was raising a lot of dust around this country.

je podigla mnogo prašine diljem ove zemlje.

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

U to vrijeme udaja nije bilo nešto

I spent a lot of time thinking about.

o čem sam puno razmišljala.

But I was struck by the fact that America,

. No mene je zatekla činjenica da je Amerika,

a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,

zemlja s toliko oduzetim zapisima civilnih prava,

could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.

mogla tako bučno ponavljati svoje greške.

And I remember watching the discussion on television

Sjećam se kako sam gledala raspravu na tv-u

and thinking how interesting it was

misleći kako je zanimljivo

that the separation of church and state

što je odvajanje crkve i države

was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,

u suštini povuklo geografske granice kroz ovu zemlju,

between places where people believed in it

između mjesta gdje ljudi vjeruju

and places where people didn't.

i mjesta gdje ljudi ne vjeruju.

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

I onda je ta rasprava povukla geografske granice oko mene.

If this was a war with two disparate sides,

Ako je ovo bio rat s dvije različite strane,

I, by default, fell on team gay,

ja sam se podrazumijevala kako pripadam u gay ekipu

because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.

jer definitivno nisam bila 100% straight.

At the time I was just beginning to emerge

U to vrijeme sam počinjala isplovljavati

from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag

iz te osmogodišnje osobne krize koja me vodila

that saw me go from being a boy

od toga da sam bila dječak

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

do toga da budem ta neobična djevojka koja je izgledala kao dječak u ženskoj odjeći

to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,

do potpuno suprotnog ekstremnog super štedljivog,

over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl

prekomjernog dječaka koji lovi djevojčice

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

sve do finalnog neodlučnog istraživanja onog što ustvari jesam,

a tomboyish girl

muškobanjasta djevojka

who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.

koja voli i dječake i djevojčice, ovisno o osobi.

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

Godinu dana sam provela fotografirajući ovu novu generaciju djevojaka, poput mene,

who fell kind of between-the-lines --

koje su se osjećale kao da su unutar linija –

girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,

djevojke koje voze skejtboard, no rade to u čipkastom donjem rublju,

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

, djevojke koje su imale muške frizure no nosile su djevojačke lakove za nokte,

girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,

, djevojke koje su imale sjenila koja im odgovaraju uz razbijena koljena,

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

djevojke koje su voljele i djevojke i dječake koji su svi voljeli djevojke i dječake

who all hated being boxed in to anything.

koji su mrzili biti ukalupljeni u bilo što.

I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,

Voljela sam te ljude, divila sam se njihovoj slobodi,

but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble

no gledala sam kako svijet izvan našeg utopijskog balona

exploded into these raging debates

eksplodira u te gnjevne rasprave

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

gdje su sveznalice počinjale uspoređivati našu ljubav sa sodomijom na nacionalnoj televiziji.

And this powerful awareness rolled in over me

Ova moćna svjesnost mi je sinula

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

jer sam bila manjina i to u vlastitoj zemlji,

based on one facet of my character.

temeljeno na jednom aspektu mog karaktera.

I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

Legalno i neosporno sam bila građanin drugog reda.

I was not an activist.

Nisam bila aktivist.

I wave no flags in my own life.

Ne mašem nikakvim zastavama u svom životu,

But I was plagued by this question:

no bila sam šokirana ovim pitanjem:

How could anyone vote to strip the rights

Kako bi itko mogao glasati za ukidanje prava

of the vast variety of people that I knew

ogromnom mnoštvu ljudi koje poznajem

based on one element of their character?

na temelju jednog dijela njihovog karaktera?

How could they say that we as a group

Kako mogu govoriti da mi kao grupa

were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?

ne zaslužujemo jednaka prava kao i netko drugi?

Were we even a group? What group?

Da li smo uopće bili grupa? Kakva grupa?

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

I da li su ovi ljudi ikada svjesno upoznali žrtvu njihove diskriminacije?

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

Jesu li znali protiv koga glasaju i kakav je bio utjecaj?

And then it occurred to me,

Tada mi je sinulo

perhaps if they could look into the eyes

da možda ako pogledaju u oči

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

tih ljudi koje svrstavaju u građane drugog reda

it might make it harder for them to do.

da će im možda biti teže to učiniti.

It might give them pause.

Možda će ih to prekinuti.

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

Očigledno nisam mogla dobiti 20 milijuna ljudi na jednu večeru

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

pa sam smislila način kako ih mogu upoznati jedne s drugima preko fotografija

without any artifice, without any lighting,

bez ikakvog uljepšavanja,

or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.

bez ikakvog osvijetljenja i bez ikakve manipulacije s moje strane.

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

Jer na fotografiji možete pregledati lavlje brkove

without the fear of him ripping your face off.

bez straha da će vam otkinuti glavu.

For me, photography is not just about exposing film,

Za mene fotografija nije samo puko prikazivanje filma,

it's about exposing the viewer

to je izlaganje gledaoca

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

nečem novome, mjesto gdje nikada nisu bili,

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

no najvažnije, ljudima kojih bi se mogli bojati.

Life magazine introduced generations of people

Časopis Life je upoznao pomoću slika mnogo generacija ljudi

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

s dalekim, udaljenim kulturama za koje nikada ne bi znali da postoje.

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

Stoga sam odlučila napraviti niz veoma jednostavnih portreta,

mugshots if you will.

poput onih zatvorskih.

And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country

Zapravo sam odlučila fotografirati svakoga u ovoj zemlji

that was not 100 percent straight,

tko nije 100 posto heteroseksualan,

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

što je, ukoliko ne znate, neograničen broj ljudi.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So this was a very large undertaking,

Dakle, ovo je bio veliki pothvat

and to do it we needed some help.

i kako bih to učinila trebala mi je pomoć.

So I ran out in the freezing cold,

Trčala sam u veliku hladnoću,

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

slikala svaku osobu za koju sam smatrala da bih mogla doprijeti do nje

in February of about two years ago.

do veljače prije dvije godine.

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

Slikala sam ove fotografije, otišla u HRC (Kampanja za ljudska prava) te ih upitala za pomoć.

And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.

Financirali su mi dva tjedna snimanja u New Yorku

And then we made this.

te smo nakon toga napravili ovo.

(Music)

(Glazba)

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

Video: Ja sam iO Tillett Wright, umjetnica sam koja je rođena i odrasla u New Yorku.

(Music)

(Glazba)

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

Self Evident Truths je fotografska kuća LGBTQ današnje Amerike.

My aim is to take a simple portrait

Moj cilj je napraviti jednostavan portret

of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight

svakoga tko je iole manje od 100 posto heteroseksualan

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

ili se osjeća kao da pripada u LGBTQ spektar na bilo koji način.

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

Moj cilj je pokazati humanost koja postoji u svakom od nas

through the simplicity of a face.

kroz jednostavnost naših lica.

(Music)

(Glazba)

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

„Čuvamo ove istine kako bismo bili samosvjesni da su svi ljudi stvoreni jednaki.“

It's written in the Declaration of Independence.

To je zapisano u Proglasu neovisnosti.

We are failing as a nation

Ne uspijevamo kao nacija

to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.

držati do morala na kojima smo temeljeni.

There is no equality in the United States.

Ne postoji jednakost u SAD-u.

["What does equality mean to you?"]

[Što za tebe znači jednakost?“]

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

[„Brak“] [„Sloboda“] [„Građanska prava“]

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

[„Odnosite se prema svakoj osobi kao da se odnosite prema sebi“]

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

To je kada ne morate razmišljati o tome, tako je jednostavno.

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

Borba za jednaka prava nije samo vezana uz homoseksualni brak.

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

Danas u 29 država, što je više od polovice ove zemlje,

you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.

zakonski možete biti otpušteni na osnovu vašeg seksualne orijentacije.

["Who is responsible for equality?"]

[„Tko je odgovoran za jednakost?“

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

Čula sam stotine ljudi koji su mi dali isti odgovor:

"We are all responsible for equality."

„Svi smo odgovorni za jednakost.“

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

Do sada smo slikali 300 lica u New Yorku.

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

I ne bismo bili u mogućnosti učiniti ništa od toga

without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.

da nije bilo velikodušne potpore Kampanje za ljudska prava.

I want to take the project across the country.

Želim projekt proširiti širom zemlje.

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

Želim posjetiti 25 američkih gradova i želim snimiri 4000 ili 5000 ljudi.

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

To je moj doprinost ljuskim pravima u borbi moje generacije.

I challenge you to look into the faces of these people

Izazivam vas da pogledate u lica ovih ljudi

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

i da im kažete da zaslužuju manje od bilo kojeg drugog ljudskog bića.

(Music)

(Glazba)

["Self evident truths"]

[„Self evident truths“]

["4,000 faces across America"]

[„4000 lica diljem Amerike“]

(Music)

(Glazba)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

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

iO Tillett Wright: Apsolutno nas ništa nije moglo pripremiti na ono što nam se dodgodilo nakon toga.

Almost 85,000 people watched that video,

Gotovo 85 000 ljudi je pogledalo taj video

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

i počelo nam slati mailove iz cijele zemlje

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

govoreći nam da dođemo u njihove gradove i pomognemo im pokazati njihova lica.

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

Mnogo više ljudi je željelo pokazati lica no što sam očekivala.

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

Stoga sam promijenila svoj cilj na 10 000 lica.

That video was made in the spring of 2011,

Taj video je napravljen u proljeće 2011.

and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities

i do sada sam putovala u gotovo 20 gradova

and photographed almost 2,000 people.

i snimila gotovo 2000 ljudi.

I know that this is a talk,

Znam da je ovo govor,

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

no voljela bih da odvojimo minutu šutnje

and have you just look at these faces

šutnje i da pogledate ova lica

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

jer ne postoji ništa što mogu reći da ih opiše.

Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,

Jer ukoliko slika vrijedi tisuću riječi,

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

onda slika lica treba potpuno nov rječnik.

So after traveling and talking to people

Nakon putovanja i razgovaranja s ljudima

in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,

na mjestima poput Oklahome ili malog grada u Teksasu,

we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.

pronašli smo dokaze da je početna premisa totalno kriva.

Visibility really is key.

Vidljivost zaista je ključ.

Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.

Prisnost zaista je prolazna droga do empatije.

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

Jednom kada problem iskoči u vašem vrtu ili među vašom obitelji,

you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it

izglednije je da ćete istraživati naklonost tome

or explore a new perspective on it.

ili istraživati novu prespektivu u vezi toga.

Of course, in my travels I met people

Naravno, na svojim putovanjima sam susretala ljude

who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,

koji su se legalno rastavljali od svoje djece ukoliko su bila nešto drugo, a ne heteroseksualna,

but I also met people who were Southern Baptists

no susretala sam i ljude koji su bili južnjački baptisti

who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.

no promijenili su crkvu zato što su im djeca bila lezbijke.

Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.

Širenje empatije je postala osnovica Self Evident Truths-a.

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

No evo što sam naučila, a zaista je zanimljivo:

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

Self Evident Truth ne briše razlike među nama.

In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.

Zapravo, baš suprotno, naglašava ih.

It presents, not just the complexities

Predstavlja, ne samo kompleksnost

found in a procession of different human beings,

koju nalazimo u povorci različitih ljudskih bića

but the complexities found within each individual person.

već kompleksnost koju nalazimo unutar svake individue.

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

Nismo imali previše okvira, imali smo ih premalo.

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

U nekom trenutku sam shvatila da je moja mislija fotografiranja „gejeva“ bila svojstveno pogrešna

because there were a million different shades of gay.

jer postoji milijun različitih nijansi homoseksualnosti.

Here I was trying to help,

Pokušavala sam pomoći

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

i ovjekovječila sam upravo onu stvar koju sam cijeli život pokušavala izbjeći –

yet another box.

još jedan okvir .

At some point I added a question to the release form

U nekom trenutku sam postavila pitanje kako bih oslobodila formu

that asked people to quantify themselves

koja je ljude tražila da se izjasne

on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.

na skali od jedan do 100 posto homoseksualca.

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

Bila sam svjedok tolikim egzistencijalnim krizama koje su se odvijale preda mnom.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

People didn't know what to do

Ljudi nisu znali što učiniti

because they had never been presented with the option before.

jer se nikada prije nisu susretali s opcijom.

Can you quantify your openness?

Možete li odrediti količinu vaše otvorenosti?

Once they got over the shock, though,

Kada ih je prošlo stanje šoka, iako,

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

velik broj ljudi se odlučio biti negdje između 70 i 95 posto

or the 3 to 20 percent marks.

ili na mjestima od 3 do 20 posto.

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

Naravno, bilo je mnogo ljudi koji su odabrali 100 posto jednog ili drugog,

but I found that a much larger proportion of people

no otkrila sam mnogo veću količinu ljudi

identified as something that was much more nuanced.

koji se identificiraju kao nešto što je mnogo nijansiranije.

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

Otkrila sam da većina ljudi spada u spektar kojeg nazivamo „Sivim“.

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

Da budem jasnija – i ovo je veoma važno –

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

ni na koji način ne kažem da prioritet ne postoji.

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

I neću čak ni odaslati problem izbora protiv biološkog imperativa

because if any of you happen to be of the belief

jer ukoliko bilo tko od vas smatra

that sexual orientation is a choice,

da je seksualna orijentacija stvar izbora,

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

pozivam vas da izađete i pokušate biti sivi.

I'll take your picture just for trying.

Slikat ću vas samo ukoliko probate.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

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

Ono što govorim je da ljudska bića nisu jednodimenzionalna.

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

Najvažnija stvar koju treba uzeti iz ovog sustava postotaka je ova:

If you have gay people over here

Ukoliko imate homoseksualne osobe ovdje,

and you have straight people over here,

a heteroseksualne ondje

and while we recognize that most people identify

i dok prepoznajemo kako se većina ljudi izjašnjava

as somewhere closer to one binary or another,

kako je negdje bliže jednom ili drugom,

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

postoji taj ogroman spektar ljudi koji postoji u sredini.

And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.

I realnost koju to predstavlja je komplicirana.

Because, for example, if you pass a law

Jer, na primjer, ukoliko prrihvatite zakon

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

koji dozvoljava šefu da otpusti zaposlenika zbog homoseksualnog ponašanja,

where exactly do you draw the line?

gdje točno povlačite granicu?

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

Da li je to ovdje kod ljudi koji su do sada imali jedno ili dva heteroseksualna iskustva?

Or is it over here

Ili je to kod ljudi

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

koji su imali samo jedno ili dva homoseksualna iskustva do sada?

Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?

U kojem trenutku pojedinac postaje građanin drugog reda?

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

Još jedna zanimljiva stvar koju sam naučila iz svog projekta i svojih putovanja

is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.

je to kakvo je jadno sredstvo za vezanje seksualna orijentacija.

After traveling so much and meeting so many people,

Nakon toliko putovanja i upoznavanja toliko ljudi,

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

da vam kažem, postoji toliko mnogo kretena i dragih ljudi,

and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens

demokrata i republikanaca, vojnika i kraljica

and every other polarization you can possibly think of

i svake druge polarizacije koju možete zamisliti

within the LGBT community

unutar LGBT zajednice

as there are within the human race.

kao i unutar ljudske rase.

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

Na stranu činjenica da igramo s jednom legalnom rukom vezanom na leđima

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

i jednom kad pređete preko priča o predrasudama i borbi,

just being other than straight

to što ste nešto drugo, a ne hetero

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

ne znači nužno da ništa nemamo zajedničko.

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

Dakle, u beskrajnoj proliferaciji lica koja doliči Self Evident Truth-u,

as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,

kao što se nadam da se i sve više pojavljuje na mnogim govornicama,

bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,

autobusnim stajalištima, plakatima, Facebook stranicama, screen saverima,

perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,

možda će se gledanjem tog procesa ljudskosti

something interesting and useful will begin to happen.

početi događati nešto zanimljivo i korisno.

Hopefully these categories, these binaries,

Nadam se da će ove kategorije, ove binarnosti,

these over-simplified boxes

ove previše pojednostavljene granice

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

početi postajati beskorisne i raspasti se.

Because really, they describe nothing that we see

Jer one zapravo ne opisuju ništa od onog što vidimo

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

i nikoga koga znamo i ništa što zapravo jesmo.

What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.

Ono što vidimo su ljudska bića i sva njihova raznovrsnost.

And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.

Kad vidimo toliko raznovrsnosti, teško je osporiti njihovu ljudskost.

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

Ako ništa drugo, barem se nadam da je teže osporiti njihova ljudska prava.

So is it me particularly

Dakle, da li bi ste meni

that you would choose to deny the right to housing,

osporili pravo na stan,

the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,

pravo na posvajanje djece, pravo na brak,

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

slobodu da ovdje kupujem, živim?

Am I the one that you choose to disown

Jesam li ja ta koju odabirete ne priznavati

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

kao vaše dijete, vašeg brata, vašu sestru, vašu majku, vašeg oca,

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

vašeg susjeda, vašeg rođaka, vašeg ujaka, predsjednika,

your police woman or the fireman?

vaše policajke ili vatrogasca?

It's too late.

Prekasno je

Because I already am all of those things.

jer ja već jesam sve od navedenog.

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

Mi već jesmo sve od navedenog i oduvijek smo bili.

So please don't greet us as strangers,

Stoga nas nemojte pozdravljati kao strance,

greet us as your fellow human beings, period.

pozdravljajte nas kao vaše kolege, ljudska bića, točka.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)