iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevodilac: Biljana Zlatanovic Lektor: Mile Živković

Human beings start putting each other into boxes

Ljudska bića počnu da stavljaju jedni druge u kutije

the second that they see each other --

istog trenutka kada se vide -

Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?

Da li je ta osoba opasna? Da li su privlačni?

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

Da li su potecijalni partneri? Da li su možda budući kontakti?

We do this little interrogation when we meet people

Uradimo mali upitnik kada upoznamo ljude

to make a mental resume for them.

da bismo u glavi napravili njihov rezime.

What's your name? Where are you from?

Kako se zoveš? Odakle si?

How old are you? What do you do?

Koliko imaš godina? Čime se baviš?

Then we get more personal with it.

Onda postanemo ličniji.

Have you ever had any diseases?

Da li si ikada imao neku bolest?

Have you ever been divorced?

Da li si se ikada razvodio?

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

Da li imaš loš zadah dok mi sada odgovaraš na pitanja?

What are you into? Who are you into?

Šta te interesuje? Ko te interesuje?

What gender do you like to sleep with?

Sa kojim polom voliš da spavaš?

I get it.

Shvatam.

We are neurologically hardwired

Neurološki smo programirani

to seek out people like ourselves.

da tražimo ljude poput nas samih.

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

Počnemo da pravimo grupe čim odrastemo dovoljno

to know what acceptance feels like.

da znamo šta znači prihvatanje.

We bond together based on anything that we can --

Spajamo se na osnovu bilo čega -

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

muzičkog ukusa, rase, pola, kraja u kome smo odrasli.

We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.

Žudimo za sredinama koje pospešuju naše lične izbore.

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

Mada ponekad samo pitanje: "Čime se baviš?"

can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box

može da te navede da se osetiš kao da neko otvara malenu kutiju

and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.

i traži ti da se uguraš unutra.

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

Smatram da su kategorije previše ograničavajuće.

The boxes are too narrow.

Kutije su preuske.

And this can get really dangerous.

Ovo može da postane zaista opasno.

So here's a disclaimer about me, though,

Evo jednog upozorenja u vezi sa mnom

before we get too deep into this.

pre nego što zađemo preduboko u temu.

I grew up in a very sheltered environment.

Odrasla sam u vrlo zaštićenoj sredini.

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

Odgajana sam u centru Menhentna početkom 1980-ih,

two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.

dve ulice od epicentra pank muzike.

I was shielded from the pains of bigotry

Bila sam zaštićena od netrpeljivosti

and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.

i društvenih ograničenja pri vaspitavanju zasnovanom na religiji.

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

Odakle dolazim, ako niste bili transvestit ili ako ne razmišljate radikalno

or a performance artist of some kind,

ili ako niste nekakav izvođač performansa,

you were the weirdo.

vi ste bili čudak.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

It was an unorthodox upbringing,

Bilo je to netipično uzgajanje,

but as a kid on the streets of New York,

ali kao dete na ulicama Njujorka,

you learn how to trust your own instincts,

naučite kako da verujete sopstvenim instinktima,

you learn how to go with your own ideas.

naučite kako da se vodite sopstvenim idejama.

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

Kada sam imala 6 godina, odlučila sam da želim da budem dečak.

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

Jednog dana sam otišla u školu i deca mi nisu dozvolila da igram basket sa njima.

They said they wouldn't let girls play.

Rekli su da devojčicama ne daju 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."

i vratila sam se sledećeg dana i rekla: "Ja sam dečak".

I mean, who knows, right?

Ko bi mogao da pretpostavi, zar ne?

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

Kada imate 6 godina, možda i možete to da uradite.

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

Nisam želela da iko zna da sam devojčica i nisu znali.

I kept up the charade for eight years.

Nastavila sam sa pretvaranjem narednih osam godina.

So this is me when I was 11.

Ovo sam ja sa 11 godina.

I was playing a kid named Walter

Igarala sam dečaka po imenu Volter

in a movie called "Julian Po."

u filmu "Džulian Po".

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

Bila sam opako dete sa ulice koje je pratilo Kristijana Slejtera i gnjavilo ga.

See, I was also a child actor,

Bila sam i dete glumac,

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

što je udvostručilo slojeve glume sopstvenog identiteta,

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

jer niko nije znao da sam zapravo devojčica koja glumi dečaka.

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

Zapravo, niko u mom životu nije znao da sam devojčica -

not my teachers at school, not my friends,

ni moji nastavnici u školi, ni moji prijatelji,

not the directors that I worked with.

niti reditelji sa kojima sam radila.

Kids would often come up to me in class

Deca bi mi često prilazila u razredu

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

i zgrabila bi me za grlo da potraže Adamovu jabučicu,

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

ili bi me zgrabili za međunožje da provere s čime raspolažem.

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

Kada bih otišla u toalet, okrenula bih cipele naopačke u kabini

so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.

tako da izgleda kao da piškim stojećki.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks

Kada bih išla kod nekoga da prespavam, imala bih napade panike

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

pokušavajući da ubedim devojčice da ne žele da me poljube

without outing myself.

a da se pri tom ne odam.

It's worth mentioning though

Vredno je pomena

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

da nisam mrzela svoje telo niti genitalije.

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

Nisam se osećala kao da se nalazim u pogrešnom telu.

I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.

Osećala sam se kao da glumim u uvežbanoj predstavi.

I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.

Ne bih se okarakterisala kao tranvestit.

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

Da je moja porodica bila jedna od onih što veruju u lečenje,

they probably would have diagnosed me

verovatno bi mi postavili dijagnozu

as something like gender dysmorphic

kao poremećaj pola

and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

i stavili bi me na hormone da spreče pubertet.

But in my particular case,

I just woke up one day when I was 14,

Ali u mom konkretnom slučaju,

samo sam se probudila jednoga dana, kada sam imala 14 godina

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

i odlučila sam da želim da opet budem devojčica.

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

Pubertet je počeo i nisam imala predstavu šta znači biti devojčica.

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

Bila sam spremna da shvatim ko sam zapravo.

When a kid behaves like I did,

Kada se dete ponaša kao što sam se ja ponašala,

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

ne mora zapravo da se deklariše, zar ne?

No one is exactly shocked.

Niko nije zaista šokiran.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

Roditelji me nisu pitali da se definišem.

When I was 15, and I called my father

Kada sam imala 15 godina i kada sam pozvala oca

to tell him that I had fallen in love,

da mu kažem da sam se zaljubila,

it was the last thing on either of our minds

poslednja stvar na mom i njegovom umu bila je

to discuss what the consequences were

da raspravljamo koje su posledice

of the fact that my first love was a girl.

toga da mi je prva ljubav jedna devojčica.

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

Nakon tri godine, kada sam se zaljubila u muškarca,

neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.

moji roditelji nisu bili iznenađeni.

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

Veliki blagoslov mog vrlo neobičnog detinjstva

that I wasn't ever asked to define myself

bio je to što me nikada nisu pitali da se definišem

as any one thing at any point.

kao bilo šta bilo kada.

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

Bilo mi je dozvoljeno da budem ja, da odrastam i da se menjam svakog trenutka.

So four, almost five years ago,

Pre skoro 4 godine,

Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,

Predlog 8, velika debata o jednakosti brakova,

was raising a lot of dust around this country.

dizala je mnogo prašine u ovoj zemlji.

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

U to vreme nisam mnogo razmišljala

I spent a lot of time thinking about.

o venčavanju.

But I was struck by the fact that America,

Ali me je iznenadila činjenica da Amerika,

a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,

zemlja sa toliko nečistim postupcima sa ljudskim pravima,

could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.

može tako napadno da ponavlja svoje greške.

And I remember watching the discussion on television

Sećam se da sam gledala rasparavu na televiziji

and thinking how interesting it was

i razmišljala koliko je zanimljivo

that the separation of church and state

to što je razdvajanje crkve i države

was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,

ocrtavalo geografske granice kroz ovu zemlju,

between places where people believed in it

između mesta gde su ljudi verovali

and places where people didn't.

i mesta gde nisu.

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

A zatim i to što je ova rasprava ocrtavala geografske granice oko mene.

If this was a war with two disparate sides,

Da se radilo o ratu između dve različite strane,

I, by default, fell on team gay,

ja bih automatski pala u gej tim,

because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.

jer svakako nisam bila 100% strejt.

At the time I was just beginning to emerge

U to vreme sam tek počinjala da se izvlačim

from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag

iz ove osmogodišnje krize identiteta koja je oscilirala,

that saw me go from being a boy

u toku koje sam se menjala od dečaka

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

do čudne devojčice koja je izgledala kao dečak u odeći devojčice,

to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,

do potpuno suprotne razgolićene,

over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl

ženskaste devojčice koja juri za dečacima

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

do najzad samo neodlučnog istraživanja ko sam zapravo -

a tomboyish girl

muškobanjasta devojčica,

who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.

kojoj su se sviđali i dečaci i devojčice u zavisnosti od osobe.

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

Provela sam godinu dana fotografišući novu generaciju devojčica, vrlo sličnih meni,

who fell kind of between-the-lines --

koje su zapale negde između linija -

girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,

devojčice koje voze skejt u čipkanom vešu,

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

devojčice sa muškom frizurom, ali koje su lakirale nokte,

girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,

devojčice sa senkom na očima koja ide uz izgrebana kolena,

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

devojčice kojima su se sviđale devojčice i dečaci kojima su se sviđali dečaci i devojčice

who all hated being boxed in to anything.

i svi mrzeli da ih stavljaju u bilo koju kategoriju.

I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,

Volela sam ove ljude, divila sam se njihovoj slobodi,

but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble

dok sam posmatrala kako svet, izvan našeg utopijskog mehura,

exploded into these raging debates

vatreno reaguje u toku debata,

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

dok su eksperti počinjali da upoređuju našu ljubav sa bestijalnošću na nacionalnoj televiziji.

And this powerful awareness rolled in over me

Ova moćna svest naterala me je da shvatim

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

da sam manjina i u mojoj zemlji,

based on one facet of my character.

na osnovu jednog pogleda na moj karakter,

I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

bila sam legalno i neosporivo građanin drugog reda.

I was not an activist.

Nisam bila aktivista.

I wave no flags in my own life.

Nisam se razmetala svojim mišljenjem.

But I was plagued by this question:

Ali me je mučilo pitanje:

How could anyone vote to strip the rights

kako iko može da glasa da se oduzmu prava

of the vast variety of people that I knew

mnogim ljudima koje poznajem,

based on one element of their character?

na osnovu jednog elementa njihovog karaktera?

How could they say that we as a group

Kako mogu da kažu da mi, kao grupa,

were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?

ne zaslužujemo jednaka prava kao neko drugi?

Were we even a group? What group?

Da li smo mi uopšte grupa? Kakva grupa?

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

Da li su uopšte ovi ljudi ikada svesno upoznali žrtvu svoje diskriminacije?

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

Da li su bili svesni protiv čega su glasali i kakav su uticaj imali?

And then it occurred to me,

A onda mi je palo na pamet,

perhaps if they could look into the eyes

možda, kada bi mogli da pogledaju u oči

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

ljudi koje su klasifikovali kao građane drugog reda,

it might make it harder for them to do.

možda bi im bilo teže da ih tako klasifikuju.

It might give them pause.

Možda bi zastali.

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

Očigedno, nisam mogla da pozovem 20 miliona ljudi na istu večeru,

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

tako da sam smislila način da predstavim jedne drugima kroz fotografije,

without any artifice, without any lighting,

bez bilo kakvih izmena, bez svetla

or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.

i bez bilo kakve manipulacije s moje strane.

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

Na fotografiji možemo da proučavamo brkove lava

without the fear of him ripping your face off.

bez straha da će nam istrgati lice.

For me, photography is not just about exposing film,

Za mene, fotografija nije samo izlaganje filma,

it's about exposing the viewer

već je i izlaganje posmatrača

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

nečemu novom, mestu gde nikada nije bio,

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

ali ono što je najvažnije, ljudima kojih se možda plaši.

Life magazine introduced generations of people

Časopis Lajf predstavio je generacijama ljudi kroz slike

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

udaljene, daleke kulture, za koje nisu ni znali da postoje.

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

Odlučila sam da napravim niz vrlo jednostavnih portreta,

mugshots if you will.

kao slike iz zatvora.

And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country

Odlučila sam da fotografišem sve one

that was not 100 percent straight,

koji nisu 100 % strejt u ovoj zemlji,

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

što je, ako niste znali, neograničen broj ljudi.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

So this was a very large undertaking,

Ovo je bio ogroman poduhvat

and to do it we needed some help.

i da bismo ga sproveli, bila nam je potrebna pomoć.

So I ran out in the freezing cold,

Istrčala sam po hladnoći

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

i fotografisala sam svaku osobu koju sam mogla,

in February of about two years ago.

u februaru, oko pre dve godine.

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

Napravila sam te fotografije, a onda sam otišla u HRC i zamolila ih za pomoć.

And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.

Isfinansirali su dve nedelje snimanja u Njujorku.

And then we made this.

A onda smo napravili ovo.

(Music)

(Muzika)

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

Video: Ja sam Ajo Tajlet Rajt, umetnica sam, rođena i odrasla u Njujorku.

(Music)

(Muzika)

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

Self Evident Truths je fotografski zapisnik LGBTQ zajednice u Americi danas.

My aim is to take a simple portrait

Moj cilj je da napravim jednostavan portret

of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight

bilo koga ko nije 100% strejt

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

ili pak oseća da pripada LGBTQ zajednici na bilo koji način.

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

Moj cilj je da pokažem ljudskost koja postoji u svakome od nas

through the simplicity of a face.

kroz jednostavnost lica.

(Music)

(Muzika)

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

"Držimo do toga da je istina da su svi ljudi stvoreni jednaki."

It's written in the Declaration of Independence.

Napisano je u Deklaraciji nezavisnosti.

We are failing as a nation

Kao nacija, ne uspevamo

to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.

da održimo načela na osnovu kojih smo osnovani.

There is no equality in the United States.

Jednakost ne postoji u SAD-u.

["What does equality mean to you?"]

["Šta tebi znači jednakost?"]

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

["Brak"] ["Sloboda"] ["Građanska prava"]

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

["Ophodi se prema svakoj osobi onako bi se ophodio prema sebi"]

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

Kada ne morate da mislite na to, vrlo jednostavno.

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

Borba za jednaka prava nije samo borba za gej brakove.

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

Danas u 29 država, u više od pola ove zemlje,

you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.

možete legalno da budete otpušteni samo zbog vaše seksualnosti.

["Who is responsible for equality?"]

["Ko je odgovoran za jednakost?"]

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

Čula sam stotine ljudi kako odgovara isto:

"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 fotografisali 300 lica u Njujorku.

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

I ne bismo mogli ništa od ovoga da uradimo

without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.

bez velikodušne podrške Kampanje ljudskih prava.

I want to take the project across the country.

Želim da projekat proširim na celu zemlju.

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

Želim da posetim 25 američkih gradova i da fotografišem 4.000 ili 5.000 ljudi.

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

Ovo je moj doprinos borbi za građanska prava moje generacije.

I challenge you to look into the faces of these people

Čikam vas da pogledate lica ovih ljudi

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

i da im kažete da zaslužuju manje nego bilo koje drugo ljudsko biće.

(Music)

(Muzika)

["Self evident truths"]

["Očigledne istine"]

["4,000 faces across America"]

["4.000 lica u celoj Americi"]

(Music)

(Muzika)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

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

Ajo Tajlet Rajt: Ništa nije moglo da nas pripremi za ono što je usledilo.

Almost 85,000 people watched that video,

Skoro 85.000 ljudi je odgledalo ovaj video

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

i počeli su da nam stižu mejlovi iz cele zemlje,

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

gde nas pitaju da dođemo u njihove gradove i da im pomognemo da pokažu svoja lica.

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

Mnogo više ljudi je želelo da pokaže svoje lice nego što sam predvidela.

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

Odmah sam promenila svoj prvobitni cilj na 10.000 lica.

That video was made in the spring of 2011,

Ovaj video je napravljen u proleće 2011.

and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities

i sve do danas, otputovala sam u skoro 20 gradova

and photographed almost 2,000 people.

i fotografisala skoro 2.000 ljudi.

I know that this is a talk,

Znam da je ovo samo govor,

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

ali bih želela da imam minut tišine

and have you just look at these faces

i da pogledate ova lica

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

jer ne postoji ništa što bih rekla, što može da se doda ovome.

Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,

Ako je slika vredna hiljadu reči,

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

onda je slici lica potreban čitav nov rečnik.

So after traveling and talking to people

Nakon što sam putovala i razgovarala sa ljudima,

in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,

u mestima kao što su Oklahoma ili mali grad u Teksasu,

we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.

došli smo do traga da prvobitna premisa i dalje važi.

Visibility really is key.

Vidljivost je zasta ključna.

Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.

Bliskost zaista vodi do saosećanja.

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

Kada problem iskrsne u vašoj kući ili u vašoj porodici,

you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it

šanse su mnogo veće da ćete osetiti saosećanje

or explore a new perspective on it.

ili da ćete potražiti novo gledište na stvar.

Of course, in my travels I met people

Naravno da sam u toku mojih putovanja upoznala ljude

who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,

koji su se legalno odrekli svoje dece jer nisu bili strejt,

but I also met people who were Southern Baptists

ali sam isto tako upoznala ljude koji su bili južni baptisti

who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.

i koji su promenili crkvu jer im je ćerka lezbejka.

Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.

Iskra saosećanja postala je glavni oslonac za Self Evident Truths.

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

Ali evo nečega zanimljivog što sam počela da učim:

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

Self Evident Truths ne briše razlike među nama.

In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.

Zapravo ih naglašava.

It presents, not just the complexities

Ne samo da predstavlja složenost

found in a procession of different human beings,

koja se pronalazi u različitim ljudskim bićima,

but the complexities found within each individual person.

već i složenosti koje se pronalaze u svakoj pojedinačnoj osobi.

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

Nije da smo imali previše kutija, imali smo ih premalo.

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

U jednom trenutku sam shvatila da moja misija da fotografišem "gejeve" bila sama po sebi greška,

because there were a million different shades of gay.

jer postoji milion različitih nijansi homoseksualnosti.

Here I was trying to help,

Pokušala sam da pomognem

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

i ovekovečila sam upravo ono što sam čitavog života pokušavala da izbegnem -

yet another box.

samo još jednu kutiju.

At some point I added a question to the release form

Dodala sam pitanje formularu

that asked people to quantify themselves

koje je tražilo od ljudi da izmere sebe

on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.

na skali od jedan do 100% gej.

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

Mnogo egzistencijalnih kriza odvijalo se pred mojim očima.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

People didn't know what to do

Ljudi nisu znali šta da rade

because they had never been presented with the option before.

jer im nikada niko nije ponudio tu opciju.

Can you quantify your openness?

Da li možeš da izmeriš svoju otvorenost?

Once they got over the shock, though,

Kada su prevazišli šok,

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

veliki broj ljudi izabrao je negde između 70% i 95%,

or the 3 to 20 percent marks.

ili 3% do 20%.

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

Naravno bilo je i ljudi koji su izglasali 100% jednog ili drugog,

but I found that a much larger proportion of people

ali otkrila sam da mnogo veći procenat ljudi

identified as something that was much more nuanced.

sebe definiše kao iznijansirane.

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 kategoriju koju sam počela da nazivam "Siva".

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

Dozovlite mi da pojasnim - a ovo je vrlo važno -

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

nikako ne govorim da preferencija ne postoji.

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

Neću čak ni da spomenem problem odabira protiv biološkog imperativa,

because if any of you happen to be of the belief

jer ako iko od vas veruje

that sexual orientation is a choice,

da je seksualna orijentacija izbor,

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

pozivam vas da izađete i pokušate da budete sivi.

I'll take your picture just for trying.

Fotografisaću vas jer se trudite.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

Ono što pokušavam da kažem je da ljudska bića nisu jedno-dimenzionalna.

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

Najvažnija stvar uzeta iz ovih procenata je sledeća:

If you have gay people over here

ako imate gej ljude

and you have straight people over here,

i strejt ljude

and while we recognize that most people identify

i dok shvatamo da se većina ljudi definiše

as somewhere closer to one binary or another,

kao nešto približno jednoj ili drugoj krajnosti,

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

i dalje postoji širok spektrum ljudi koji su između.

And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.

Ovo predstavlja jednu komplikovanu realnost.

Because, for example, if you pass a law

Na primer, ako izglasate zakon

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

koji dozvoljava gazdi da otpusti zaposlenog zbog homoseksualnog ponašanja,

where exactly do you draw the line?

gde tačno podvlačite liniju?

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

Da li je to ovde, pored ljudi koji su imali jedno ili dva heteroseksualna iskustva do sada?

Or is it over here

Ili je to možda ovde,

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

pored ljudi koji su imali jedno ili dva homoseksualna iskustva do sad?

Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?

Gde tačno na liniji neko postane građanin drugog reda?

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

Još jedna zanimljivost koju sam naučila iz mog projekta i putovanja

is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.

je kako seksualna orientacija loše povezuje ljude.

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

dozvolite da vam kažem da postoji jednako mnogo kretena i divnih ljudi

and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens

i demokrata i republikanaca, atletičara i kraljica

and every other polarization you can possibly think of

i sve druge polarizacije koje možete da zamislite

within the LGBT community

unutar LGBT zajednice,

as there are within the human race.

kao što ih ima jednako mnogo u ljudskoj rasi.

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

Na stranu to što se igramo sa legalnom rukom koja nam je vezana iza leđa,

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

ali kada konačno prevaziđete toliko pričanu priču o predrasudama i borbi,

just being other than straight

samo zato što niste strejt,

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

sve ovo ne znači da imamo bilo šta zajedničko.

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

U beskonačnom širenju lica koje Self Evident Truths uvek nalazi,

as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,

nadam se, dok se pojavljuje u sve više platformi

bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,

na autobuskim stajalištima, bilbordima, Fejsbuk stranicama, pozadinama na kompjuterima,

perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,

možda dok posmatramo ovu povorku ljudskosti,

something interesting and useful will begin to happen.

nešto zanimljivo i korisno će početi da se događa.

Hopefully these categories, these binaries,

Nadajmo se da će ove kategorije, ove binarnosti,

these over-simplified boxes

ove prepojednostavljene kutije,

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

početi da postaju beskorisne i da će početi da se raspadaju.

Because really, they describe nothing that we see

Jer zaista ne opisuju ništa što vidimo,

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

niti bilo koga koga znamo, niti ono što jesmo.

What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.

Vidimo ljudska bića u svoj svojoj raznovrsnosti.

And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.

Kada ih vidimo, teško nam je da poreknemo njihovu ljudskost.

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

U najmanju ruku, nadam se da ovo otežava poricanje njihovih ljudskih prava.

So is it me particularly

Da li biste odabrali da baš meni

that you would choose to deny the right to housing,

poreknete pravo na kuću,

the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,

pravo na usvajanje dece, pravo na brak,

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

slobodu da kupujem ovde, živim ovde?

Am I the one that you choose to disown

Da li ćete odabrati da me se odreknete

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

kao ćerke ili kao brata, sestre, majke, oca,

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

komšije, rođaka, ujaka, predsednika,

your police woman or the fireman?

policajke ili vatrogasca?

It's too late.

Prekasno je.

Because I already am all of those things.

Jer sam ja već sve to.

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

Mi smo već sve to i oduvek smo to i bili.

So please don't greet us as strangers,

Molim vas da nas ne pozdravljate kao strance,

greet us as your fellow human beings, period.

pozdravite nas kao ljudska bića i tačka.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)