Hey
I'm the infamous Cappuccino known in LFPM forums, AND I'm the guy whom Tawa was talking about in his post.
Well, first of all, for those who haven't got the information registered in their brains yet, I am gay. I won't make this a "coming out" post, rather than just a quick reply because I think it is crucial that a gay person give his own point of view since the topic is about us, homosexuals.
I'd like to tell all those who are against gay rights or gay people, those who call us sick and perverted:
why did you choose to be straight? I'm pretty you didn't wake up one day and were given the option to choose you want to be straight. It just happened that through the your puberty (probably!), you suddenly found out you have a weird feeling towards the opposite sex. Little by little, you started understanding what this is. One day, you said the word "sex". Your cheeks might have turned red, and you laughed a lot. A year later, you asked a girl out. Time passes, you had your first kiss, your first crush, your first love, and on and on and on...
Did you ask for all these to happen? or were you just faced with them? The answer is most probably: they came by themselves. Well, the difference is that all this happened to me too, but for me, it was with another guy. I fell in love with guy! How sick is that?! Deny it, deny it!
ana mesh louteh! After several tries of denying yourself, you finally give up. I cannot love a girl. I am not attracted to a girl!
- Khalas ya Cappuccino. Sma3 fham 2sha3! Enta hek w ma re7 te2dir tetghayyar.
- Bas ana ma baddeh! Ma 7ada bi7ebbneh iza ana hek.
I have reached an understanding with myself. Cappuccino is gay and he can't change (He tried a lot but failure seems to be at his side always). He will hide this because people don't like him like that. He is not a pervert, because being gay doesn't just mean having sex. It's like being straight too: you fall in love with a person. You make love, not sex.
One day I decided to start sharing my feelings with other people. (I mean, telling them that I'm gay.) Many straight people were very accepting and loved me for being honest. Many were disgusted and stop talking to me (Yi! ma32oul?! ma da22eit fik! leh 2refet faj2a? AAAAAhhhh you are imagining me in bed... tayyeb, why don't I see you in bed too? bta3ref ennak 7asshour w bala akhle2?!) :P Some just didn't like the idea, or maybe they liked it, but they don't wanna talk about it so they just backed off and remained as neutral as possible.
I met Tawa on an FPM chatroom. I told him I'm gay. He was kinda shocked. I could sense it. It's because he doesn't know much about this thing. I explained to him that it means I like other guys and I love other guys. It didn't take him much time to understand the idea. (You know how it happens: you're at Math class and the teacher says: x to the power of 2 is = -1... you're shocked! This is impossible. Later, you understand it's because of the new concept of "i". You get used to it after a while.)
As he mentioned, he's accepting. I met him and his girlfriend back then was he was in Beirut, and it was a fun meeting and they both enjoyed it. The people around didn't look at me weirdly. Tawa and his girlfriend didn't either. You wouldn't know I'm gay because I'm just like you. Copy, paste. But just in my private life, I like something else.
You like coffee; I prefer tea. Does that make me any wrong? (my fave quote :P)
PS: zhe2et battal 2ileh jledeh ektoub. Tawa i hope i didnt turn u into a lab rat :P ... and the right word for 'homosexual' in Arabic is: mithli el jenes (and yes, it sounds weird :P)