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Translator: Timothy Covell
Reviewer: Morton Bast
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翻译人员: zhiguang zhang
校对人员: Simon Chen
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Human beings start putting each other into boxes
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人们在看到别人的那一刻起
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the second that they see each other --
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就把对方装进了不同的盒子——
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Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?
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他(她)危险么?有吸引力么?
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Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?
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有可能交往么?有扩充人脉的可能么?
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We do this little interrogation when we meet people
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我们在遇见他人的时候都会这样
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to make a mental resume for them.
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在脑海中为他(她)建立一个档案。
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What's your name? Where are you from?
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你叫什么名字?来自哪里?
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How old are you? What do you do?
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多大了?做什么的?
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Then we get more personal with it.
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然后是更私人的问题。
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Have you ever had any diseases?
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得过什么病么?
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Have you ever been divorced?
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离过婚么?
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Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?
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跟我说话的时候有口臭么?
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What are you into? Who are you into?
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你喜欢什么?你喜欢什么人?
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What gender do you like to sleep with?
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你喜欢同性还是异性?
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I get it.
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我明白了。
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We are neurologically hardwired
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我们的神经系统就已经决定了
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to seek out people like ourselves.
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我们会寻找跟我们自身相似的人。
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We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough
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从我们刚知道被人认可的感觉时
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to know what acceptance feels like.
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就开始建立自己的小团体。
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We bond together based on anything that we can --
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任何可能的特征都可以把我们联系起来——
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music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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音乐喜好、种族、性别、成长的地方。
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We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.
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我们在寻找那种强化我们个人选择的环境。
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Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"
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虽然,仅仅是“你是做什么的”这个问题
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can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box
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就让你觉得别人打开了一个小盒子
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and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.
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要求你把自己塞进去。
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Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.
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因为这种放进盒子中的分类,太局限了,
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The boxes are too narrow.
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盒子太狭隘了,
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And this can get really dangerous.
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因此这真的很危险。
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So here's a disclaimer about me, though,
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所以现在在我们更深入的讨论之前,
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before we get too deep into this.
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我要说说我自己。
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I grew up in a very sheltered environment.
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我在一个受庇护的环境中长大。
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I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,
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我一九八零年代生长在曼哈顿市区,
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two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.
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距离朋克音乐中心只有两个街区的距离。
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I was shielded from the pains of bigotry
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我没有感受到偏见
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and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
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以及在虔诚宗教环境下成长带来的社会约束,所带来的痛苦。
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker
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我长大的地方,如果你不是伪娘、激进分子、
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or a performance artist of some kind,
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或某种行为艺术家,
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you were the weirdo.
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你就是个怪胎。
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(Laughter)
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(观众笑)
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It was an unorthodox upbringing,
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我的成长过程有点叛逆、非传统类型的,
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but as a kid on the streets of New York,
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但是作为纽约街头的小孩,
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you learn how to trust your own instincts,
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你要学会相信自己的直觉,
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you learn how to go with your own ideas.
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跟随自己的想法。
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So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.
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在我六岁的时候,我决定要做一个小伙子。
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I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.
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有一天我在学校想打篮球但是别的孩子不跟我玩。
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They said they wouldn't let girls play.
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他们说不跟女孩子玩。
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So I went home, and I shaved my head,
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于是我回到家,剪掉了头发,
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and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."
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第二天回到那里对他们说,“我是男孩”。
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I mean, who knows, right?
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我是说,谁看得出来呢,对吧?
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When you're six, maybe you can do that.
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当你六岁的时候你也能这么做。
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I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
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我不希望任何人知道我是女孩,我也做到了。
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I kept up the charade for eight years.
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我这么伪装了8年。
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So this is me when I was 11.
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这张照片是我11岁时候照的。
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I was playing a kid named Walter
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我在电影《Julian Po》中
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in a movie called "Julian Po."
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扮演一个叫沃特的小孩。
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I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.
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他是个街头小混混,成天跟在克里斯琴·斯内特左右,缠着他。
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See, I was also a child actor,
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瞧,我是一个童星,
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which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,
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但是实际上我在两个层面上掩饰了我的身份,
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because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
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因为没有人知道我在女扮男装。
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In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --
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事实上没有人知道我是女孩——
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not my teachers at school, not my friends,
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学校的老师、我朋友和
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not the directors that I worked with.
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跟我一起拍戏的导演都不知道。
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Kids would often come up to me in class
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在教室里小伙伴们时常会
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and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple
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掐着我的脖子看有没有喉结,
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or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.
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或抓我的档部看看我是男是女。
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When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls
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当我上厕所的时候我把鞋子反过来穿着,
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so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.
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这样看起来像是在站着小便。
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks
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在外过夜的时候,我时常纠结于
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trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me
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如何在不暴露自己的前提下把这个事件
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without outing myself.
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告诉那些不想亲吻我的女孩。
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It's worth mentioning though
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我需要澄清一下
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that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.
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我不讨厌我的身体或性别。
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I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.
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我没觉得我投错了胎。
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I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.
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我只是觉得这是一场精心的演出。
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I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.
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我不会真的去变性
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If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,
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我的家人他们或许会认为我的性别趋向畸形,
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they probably would have diagnosed me
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或许给我注射激素
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as something like gender dysmorphic
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以避免“青春期的困扰”。
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and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.
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但是我并没有被归为变性者。
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But in my particular case,
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I just woke up one day when I was 14,
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在我这个特殊的案例中,
我在14岁的时候突然的觉醒了,
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and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.
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决定重新做回姑娘。
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Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,
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青春期的困扰来了,我不知道这个决定意味着什么,
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and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
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但是我想找到真正的自我。
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When a kid behaves like I did,
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像我这样(女扮男装)的孩子,
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they don't exactly have to come out, right?
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其实用不着宣布出柜的,对吧
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No one is exactly shocked.
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没有人觉得意外。
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(Laughter)
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(观众笑)
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But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
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但是我的父母并没有要求我给自己归类。
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When I was 15, and I called my father
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在我15岁的时候,我给爸爸打电话
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to tell him that I had fallen in love,
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告诉他我恋爱了
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it was the last thing on either of our minds
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这是我们最后一次
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to discuss what the consequences were
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讨论喜欢上一个女孩子
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of the fact that my first love was a girl.
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可能带来的后果。
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Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,
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三年后当我爱上一个男人时,
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neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
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我的父母眼皮都没眨一下。
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See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood
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瞧,在我离经叛道的童年经历中最大的幸运,
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that I wasn't ever asked to define myself
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就是我从来没有被要求把自己
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as any one thing at any point.
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归为某个确定的类别。
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I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.
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我能够自由的做自己,成长,并随时改变自己。
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So four, almost five years ago,
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所以大概四五年前,
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Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,
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关于同性恋婚姻合法化第八号提案
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was raising a lot of dust around this country.
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在美国引起了巨大的关注。
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And at the time, getting married wasn't really something
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那个时候我还没有花太多时间
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I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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考虑结婚的问题。
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But I was struck by the fact that America,
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但是让我震惊的是,
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a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,
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有着那样不堪的人权历史的美国,
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could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
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竟然又一次公然的重复自己的错误。
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And I remember watching the discussion on television
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我还记得在电视上看到人们的辩论时,
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and thinking how interesting it was
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觉得多么的好玩:
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that the separation of church and state
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宗教之间和州之间的差异
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was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,
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使得国家被划出一条地理上的界限,
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between places where people believed in it
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这边的人们持赞成观点,
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and places where people didn't.
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那边的人持反对态度。
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And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
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然后我发现这些讨论使得我也需要进行站队。
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If this was a war with two disparate sides,
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如果这是两方相互对立的战争,
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I, by default, fell on team gay,
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我应该归为同性恋这一边,
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because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
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因为我显然不是百分之百“直”的(异性恋)。
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At the time I was just beginning to emerge
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那个时候我刚刚跌跌撞撞的
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from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag
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从八年的自我认同危机中走出来,
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that saw me go from being a boy
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从一个男孩,
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to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes
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从一个穿着女孩子衣服但是像男孩子的女孩子,
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to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,
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到一个超级性感、过度补偿的、超有女人味的
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over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl
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男孩子梦寐以求的女孩子,
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to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,
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到现在最终发现了真实的自己,一个
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a tomboyish girl
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男孩子气的女孩,
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who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
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喜欢某些男孩也喜欢某些女孩。
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I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,
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我曾花了一年的时间拍摄像我一样的新一代的女性,
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who fell kind of between-the-lines --
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觉得自己处在两个极端之间的女孩子——
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girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,
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穿着蕾丝内衣玩滑板的女孩,
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girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,
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剪男士短发但是涂指甲的女孩,
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girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,
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涂跟膝盖瘀伤颜色一致的眼影的女孩,
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girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls
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喜欢女孩也喜欢男孩的女孩,
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who all hated being boxed in to anything.
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讨厌被放进任何盒子里的女孩。
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I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,
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我爱她们,我赞赏她们的自由,
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but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble
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但是我看到在我们的乌托邦之外的世界,
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exploded into these raging debates
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愤怒的辩论在这个国家的电视台上演,
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where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
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专家们开始把我们的爱比喻成禽兽不如的行径。
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And this powerful awareness rolled in over me
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这让我强烈的感觉到,
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that I was a minority, and in my own home country,
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在我自己的国家,我被视作一个异类了,
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based on one facet of my character.
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仅仅因为我性格中某一方面的特点。
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I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.
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我是毫无疑问的、法律规定的二等公民。
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I was not an activist.
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我不是行动主义者。
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I wave no flags in my own life.
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我从来没有参加过游行示威。
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But I was plagued by this question:
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但是却被这个问题困扰:
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How could anyone vote to strip the rights
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为什么人可以仅仅根据别人性格中
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of the vast variety of people that I knew
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某一个特征就将我知道的那么多
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based on one element of their character?
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行色各异的人的权利剥夺?
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How could they say that we as a group
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他们怎么能说我们都是不配享受
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were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?
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与他们同动公民权利的另一类人?
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Were we even a group? What group?
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我们是一类人么?哪一类?
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And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?
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这些(投赞成票的)人有了解过他们歧视的受害者么?
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Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
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他们知道他们在投票反对什么,会带来什么影响么?
07:12
And then it occurred to me,
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然后我想到,
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perhaps if they could look into the eyes
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如果他们能够有机会
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of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship
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凝视一次他们认为是二等公民的人的眼睛,
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it might make it harder for them to do.
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他们或许会更难投出这一票。
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It might give them pause.
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或许会让他们想一下。
07:24
Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,
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很显然我不能开一个两千万人的派对,
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so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically
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而我能想到的方法是通过照片让他们相互认识
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without any artifice, without any lighting,
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我不会对照片做任何处理,
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or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
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不做灯光特效,不做改动,什么都不做。
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Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers
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因为照片的好处在于你可以在审视狮子的胡须的同时,
07:43
without the fear of him ripping your face off.
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不用担心它会扑过来撕下你的脸。
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film,
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对我而言,摄影不仅仅是曝光胶卷那么简单,
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it's about exposing the viewer
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它让观看者看到新的东西,
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to something new, a place they haven't gone before,
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体验从未有过的感觉,
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but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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最重要的,让人们审视他们可能害怕的东西。
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Life magazine introduced generations of people
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《生活》杂志曾通过图片向一代人介绍了
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to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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他们从未接触的遥远的、与众不同的文化。
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So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,
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所以我决定制作一系列简单的肖像照,
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mugshots if you will.
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或者叫大头照。
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And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country
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简单来说我拍摄这个城市不是百分之百“直”的人,
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that was not 100 percent straight,
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这样的人,
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which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
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如果你没有意识到,数量多少数不清。
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(Laughter)
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(笑)
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So this was a very large undertaking,
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所以这是一个非常大的工作量,
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and to do it we needed some help.
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我需要一些帮助来做这个。
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So I ran out in the freezing cold,
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所以在两年前的二月,
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and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to
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我冲破刺骨的寒冷,拍摄了我能找到的
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in February of about two years ago.
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每一个这样的人。
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And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.
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我拍了这些照片,我去找HRC希望能得到帮助。
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And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.
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他们提供了赞助,(我们)在纽约进行了两周的摄影。
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And then we made this.
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这是我们的成果。
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(Music)
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(音乐)
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Video: I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.
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我是欧伊·蒂利特·莱特,纽约土生土长的艺术家。
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(Music)
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(音乐)
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Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.
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“不证自明的真理”是今天美国同性恋群体的摄影记录。
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My aim is to take a simple portrait
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我的目标是为在任何方面
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of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight
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觉得自己不是百分之百“直”的人
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or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
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拍摄一幅简单的肖像。
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My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us
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我的目标是通过一张张质朴的脸向大家阐释
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through the simplicity of a face.
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人性存在于每个人身上。
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(Music)
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(音乐)
09:38
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
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“我们认为人人生而平等这样的真理是不证自明的。”
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It's written in the Declaration of Independence.
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它被写在独立宣言中。
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We are failing as a nation
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我们正在丧失掉
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to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
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我们建国时候所坚持的信念。
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There is no equality in the United States.
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这样的美国没有平等可言。
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["What does equality mean to you?"]
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“平等对你意味着什么?”
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["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]
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“婚姻”、“自由”、
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["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]
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“公民权利”、“待人如己”
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It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
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不用去想,它本该如此。
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The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
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争取平等的斗争不仅仅是为了同性婚姻。
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Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,
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今天,美国的29个州,超过美国州总数一半,
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you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.
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你可能因为性取向而被合法的炒掉。
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["Who is responsible for equality?"]
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“谁有义务捍卫平等?”
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I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:
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我听到很多人给出了同样的答案:
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"We are all responsible for equality."
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“我们都有义务保证平等”
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So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.
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目前我们在纽约拍摄了三百张人像。
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And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it
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没有人权组织阵营的大力支持
10:24
without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.
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我们无法做到这一点。
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I want to take the project across the country.
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我希望在整个国家开展该项活动。
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I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
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我希望游历25个美国城市,拍摄4000到5000个人。
10:33
This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
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这是我为我这一代人的公民权利斗争做出的努力。
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I challenge you to look into the faces of these people
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我要求你看着这些肖像的眼睛
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and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.
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对他们说他们不配享有跟你一样的权利。
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(Music)
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(音乐)
10:44
["Self evident truths"]
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“不证自明的真理”
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["4,000 faces across America"]
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“全美国的四千张肖像”
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(Music)
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(音乐)
10:52
(Applause)
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(鼓掌)
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iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.
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我们当时绝对想不到这之后发生的事情。
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Almost 85,000 people watched that video,
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大概85000人观看了视频后
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and then they started emailing us from all over the country,
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给我们发电子邮件,要我们去他们的小镇拍摄,
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asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.
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帮助他们出镜。
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And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.
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想要参与的人数远远超过的了预计。
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So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.
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所以我立刻把目标提高到了一万张肖像。
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That video was made in the spring of 2011,
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视频制作自2011年的春天,
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and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities
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而今年我已经在将近20个城市
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and photographed almost 2,000 people.
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拍摄了将近2000个人的大头照。
11:33
I know that this is a talk,
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我知道现在是演讲,
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but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet
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但是我希望能留出一分钟时间什么都不说,
11:40
and have you just look at these faces
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只是看着他们的脸,
11:41
because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
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因为我想不出需要补充什么。
11:45
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,
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因为一图胜千言,
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then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
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没有一个词汇可以诠释一副面孔。
12:12
So after traveling and talking to people
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在我游历俄克拉何马州和得克萨斯州(译者注:都是保守州)
12:16
in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,
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并与那里小镇上的人交谈之后,
12:19
we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
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我们发现有迹象显示之前的提案已经死了。
12:23
Visibility really is key.
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相互了解是关键。
12:25
Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.
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熟悉程度是引发同情的重要因素。
12:28
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,
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当一个问题出现在你家后院或你自己的家庭中,
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you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it
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你有大得多的可能性去同情,
12:34
or explore a new perspective on it.
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或接受一个新的观点。
12:36
Of course, in my travels I met people
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当然,在我的旅行中我遇见了
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who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,
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跟同性恋子女断绝法律关系的父母,
12:43
but I also met people who were Southern Baptists
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但是我也看到了这样的父母,当他们知道
12:45
who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
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他们的孩子是同性恋时,他们从美南浸信会改信了基督教。
12:48
Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.
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同理心的触动是“不证自明的真理”的基石。
12:52
But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:
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但是接下来我发现了真正有趣的事情:
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Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.
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“不证自明的真理”并没有消除我们之间的差异。
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In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
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相反的,差异被突出了。
13:04
It presents, not just the complexities
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这体现出这件事情的复杂性,
13:06
found in a procession of different human beings,
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不仅体现在不同的人群之间,
13:08
but the complexities found within each individual person.
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也体现在每个独立的个人之间。
13:11
It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.
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我们的盒子不是太多,而是太少。
13:22
At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,
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在某刻我意识到我拍摄“同性恋者”的计划一开始就有瑕疵,
13:29
because there were a million different shades of gay.
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“同性恋者”这个词可以分成上百万种不同的分类。
13:32
Here I was trying to help,
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我希望能够做点什么,
13:35
and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --
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而我接下来做的事情是我毕生想要去避免的——
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yet another box.
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创造新的盒子。
13:41
At some point I added a question to the release form
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从某刻开始我在自己的问卷中添加了一个问题,
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that asked people to quantify themselves
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要求填写者评估自己“同性恋”的程度,
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on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
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从零分到一百分给自己打分。
13:49
And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.
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然后我就目睹了无数的存在危机在我面前上演。
13:53
(Laughter)
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(观众笑)
13:55
People didn't know what to do
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人们从来没有
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because they had never been presented with the option before.
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被问过这个问题,也不知道怎么回答。
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Can you quantify your openness?
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你能量化自己的开放性(Openness)么?
14:01
Once they got over the shock, though,
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当他们缓过神来之后,
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by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent
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多人给自己的分数在70到95分
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or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
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和3到20分之间。
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Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,
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当然也有人认为自己是百分百的异性恋或同性恋,
14:12
but I found that a much larger proportion of people
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但是我发现非常大比例的人
14:15
identified as something that was much more nuanced.
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自我定位都是比较微妙的。
14:18
I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."
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我发现大多数人在这个色谱上都落在“灰色”的位置。
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Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --
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我要明确一点——非常明确的一点——
14:28
in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.
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我从未否认过偏好(preference)的存在。
14:33
And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,
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我也没有打算去讨论这个问题是先天基因还是后天选择决定的,
14:37
because if any of you happen to be of the belief
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但是如果你们当中有人相信
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that sexual orientation is a choice,
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性取向是后天选择的,
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I invite you to go out and try to be grey.
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我邀请你站出来承认自己是“灰”的。
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I'll take your picture just for trying.
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我想给你拍张大头照。
14:46
(Laughter)
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(观众笑)
14:47
What I am saying though is that human beings are not one-dimensional.
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我想说,人类不是单一维度就可以区分的。
14:52
The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:
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百分制评价标准最重要的一点是,
14:57
If you have gay people over here
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如果这边是完全的同性恋,
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and you have straight people over here,
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另一边是完全的异性恋,
15:03
and while we recognize that most people identify
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当大多数人将自己定位成靠近异性恋
15:06
as somewhere closer to one binary or another,
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或靠近同性恋这一极端的位置时,
15:09
there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.
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有相当多的人落在了这个色谱的中间位置。
15:14
And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.
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而事实上,这里展示的是一个很复杂的问题。
15:17
Because, for example, if you pass a law
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因为,比如,你们通过一项法律
15:19
that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,
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允许老板开除有同性恋行为的员工,
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where exactly do you draw the line?
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那么这条线应该画在(色谱的)哪里?
15:26
Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?
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是画在这里,有过一到两次异性恋经历的人这头?
15:31
Or is it over here
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还是画在那里,
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by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?
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只有过一到两次同性恋经历的人那头?
15:37
Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?
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究竟是什么原因使得一个人变成了二等公民?
15:41
Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels
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我的项目和我的游历经历让我学到的另一个有趣的事情
15:46
is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.
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是性取向对于人们的同化作用微乎其微。
15:51
After traveling so much and meeting so many people,
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在游历了这么多地方、跟那么多人见面之后,
15:53
let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts
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我告诉你,同性恋团体中也有笨蛋、好人、
15:57
and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens
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民主党支持者、共和党支持者、土鳖、女神,
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and every other polarization you can possibly think of
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你能在人类群体中发现的
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within the LGBT community
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所有的观点差异
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as there are within the human race.
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在同性恋团体中都存在。
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Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,
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是的,我们一起反抗意图束缚我们权利的法律,
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and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,
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但是当你撇开我们被歧视和一起抗争的共同经历,
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just being other than straight
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“同性恋”这个身份,
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doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.
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并不表示我们之间有什么共同点。
16:23
So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,
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所以随着“不证自明的真理”活动的开展,无穷无尽的人脸照片被新加进来,
16:31
as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,
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它可能出现在更多的平台,
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bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,
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公交候车亭,广告牌,Facebook页面、屏幕保护程序中。
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perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,
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或许随着人性的发展,
16:43
something interesting and useful will begin to happen.
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一些有趣和有用的事情将会发生。
16:46
Hopefully these categories, these binaries,
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这些分类、二分法、
16:50
these over-simplified boxes
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过度简化的盒子,
16:51
will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.
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或许有希望变得没有用处并开始消失。
16:57
Because really, they describe nothing that we see
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因为这些标准无法描述我们的所看、所知,
17:00
and no one that we know and nothing that we are.
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也无法描述我们是什么。
17:03
What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.
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我们看到的是人类的多样性。
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And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.
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而亲眼看到他们使得人们很难否认他们的人性。
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At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
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最低程度我希望这些面孔让人更难否定他们的人权。
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So is it me particularly
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所以,我是否就是
17:20
that you would choose to deny the right to housing,
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你所针对的那种人,
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the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,
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拒绝承认我有居住的权利、抚养孩子的权利、
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the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?
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结婚的权利、开店、生活、购物的自由?
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Am I the one that you choose to disown
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我是否就是你决定要脱离关系的人
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as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,
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你的子女、你的兄弟姐妹、你的父母、
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your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,
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你的邻居,你的堂兄,你的舅舅,美国总统,
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your police woman or the fireman?
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你(社区中)的女警或消防员?
17:43
It's too late.
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太迟了。
17:46
Because I already am all of those things.
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因为我已经是你生活的一部分了。
17:49
We already are all of those things, and we always have been.
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我们已经是相互生活的一部分,我们也将继续如此。
17:53
So please don't greet us as strangers,
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所以请不要视我们为陌生人,
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greet us as your fellow human beings, period.
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视我们为跟你一样的人。句号。
18:00
Thank you.
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谢谢。
18:01
(Applause)
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