Queer problem

20 Oct 2025

Today I have thought about the one thing which I have not thought before. The social problems the queer people have. The friend of mine lives in the country where the more and more new law and regulations appear agains queer people. They can't now even talk on a publick about any "non-traditional" relationships, otherwise they could be punished by some money penalties or in some cases even by going to jail. Yes, this is really awful, but I have a different concern.

I live in Uruguay, where there are not any (I suppose) regulations against the queer people at all. There are the homosexual marriages are allowed, and you can meet the homosexual pairs pretty often. But even with that, as some locals told me a while ago, in Uruguay, there is a quite high rate of the adolescent suicides because the parents don't accept theirs' children's homosexuality.

I live in Uruguay about two years already and I'm shocked of how kind and respectful people are. I see it in all situations, and it is really hard for me to imagine that there is such problem. But it's true.

So my concern is: if even the country without any restrictions against queeer people has such problems, what could be done to improve the situation at all? We can say, that the society is not ready yet, but how to make it ready?

I assume that there should be more information, but in which form? For example, I absolutely respect any personality, any person’s choice, etc. But at the same time I hate pride parades. It is cool just as a fun event, but the idea to show that “we are here too” the noisy parade is not the best way. But I understand that the parades are important from political point of view, as any other “crowd event” for communication with a government.

So what I think, it is important to find some various ways to explain to the society that anyone should respect other people just because they are the people too, despite of ANYTHING, until it doesn’t hurt to others…