El Jimagua - I was born homosexual - a poem of reaffirmation of sexual identity

 As I was born, so I will die; homosexual

I was born homosexual, 
i have always known.
I was born duck; 
that's what my friends said 
I was born faggot;
that's how they described someone like me on the radio.
I was born a demon; 
they called me in the church. 
I was born promiscuous;
it is not easy to love being pointed. 
I was born fear
in silence I am loving.
I was born a lie
the society to a double life has bowed me.
I was born adulterer 
in the night my instinct is tamed me.
 I was born a grudge
 for the time that homophobia has taken from me. 
I was born sorry 
society is the victim of a generalized fundamentalism. 
I was born passion 
if they saw how he and I love each other. 
I was born wish 
with my partner to be able to walk hand in hand. 
I was born wanting 
it is reliable, our hearts are still dreaming. 
I was born equity
that your rights are mine, without my identity go asking.
I was born sin 
once again a religious has condemned me.
I was born truth 
I am who I am, and that has never changed.I was born a son of the one they call God; 
if he has created me that way. 
I was born Homosexual; 
and homosexual I have to die inside or outside the closet. 

Written by Francisco J. Cartagena Méndez - The Jimagua 
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The Nature of Homosexuality

By: Francisco "El Jimagua" Cartagena Méndez
Writer and Human Rights Activist
President ASI Foundation
Twitter: @eljimagua

Gay people and the LGBTT community have always existed. We have known about homosexuals in old stories and war stories, in fairy tales and in historical stories. We can mention Da Vinci, Alejandro Magno, or perhaps Federico García Lorca and his love for Salvador Dalí. We see them personified in theatrical comedies.

The reality is that being gay is a reality of life; It is something totally natural, another sign that human beings are totally sexual and diverse. In my thirty-one springs I have observed how many men hide their true human nature. They disguise themselves as heterosexual males or females, ignoring any possibility of discovering their true sexual instinct.

Sadly, millions of people in the world have been forced (either by fear, by habit, by learned machismo, by obligation or by cowardice) not to show who they really are. However, the indifference of a gay man in the closet towards another gay man rests on the connotation of the most absurd fear. We are in the 21st century, the freedom of other gays should not bother someone who lives in the shadows of double life. Instead, he should be an example and give him strength to be as he is.Being gay is being yourself. Both men and women around the planet earth want people of the same sex. In all civilizations, cultures and religions, homosexuality is a reality. This very real fact must make us ask the following; How human beings of different ideologies and cultures are able to have feelings and desires for people of the same sex? ... the answer is simple; because it is something totally real and natural of humanity.

In all the archaeological finds that seek to understand the history of humanity, there are present stories of love between people of the same sex. The reason for this is one, since there have always been people who feel sexual and physical desire and affection (love) for people of the same sex.The question that arises before the above is; Why then have homosexuals faced so much discrimination, persecution, hatred, assault and murder against them? The answer is divided in two; 1) the extremist religious ideology and 2) the domain of free thought.

Religious visionaries found in human sexuality, an opportunity to firstly condemn the human being, and second, to dominate him. Conviction precedes the domain of free thought and therefore dominates free sexuality. Uneasiness arises; why in more than 450 species of animals, homosexuality is a reality. A sexuality that is not persecuted, except in human beings of course.

The reason is simple, because the animals (those that are not human) do not have the reasoning by which, the persuasion and the cognitive domain is achieved. However, it is really unknown, if in the animal world (beyond humans) it is possible that there is discrimination by those animals that prefer to copulate between other animals of the same sex.

Being gay is identical to being heterosexual. Gay love and heterosexual love are marked by the same situations. The strangeness, the confidence or the distrust, the necessity and the custom, the desire and sexual appetite, the curiosity, the affection, the hug, the copulate, the kiss. All actions of affection and sexuality between human beings.

For many and for many, everything described above is well seen between couples of the opposite sex (because of the need for human procreation and for the divine or the contemporary deities). However, it is no less true that all human feelings (desire, strangeness, love, love, affection, sexual desire, custom, among others) are present in the lives of people or homosexual couples.

An important issue of homosexuality is that in a certain way, we contribute to not increase human overpopulation. Although many gay people (both men and women) have sons or daughters; the vast majority have not procreated. The overpopulation has negative effects for any country and this has been evident in numerous news headlines and various studies, as happens in China, which have a policy of procreation.

I dare to bet that this writing reflects, without a doubt for my own challenge, a new opportunity to continue writing and discovering new horizons about the diversity of the human being. You can judge me, but the idea is already on the table. To a good listener, only a reliable kiss between two people of the same sex is enough.

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If we were born naked, why are we ashamed of nakedness?

Francisco El Jimagua Cartagena Méndez
Escritor y Activista de Derechos Humanos
Presidente Fundación ASI
Twitter: @eljimagua 
 eljimagua@live.com 
 
We are born naked and naked, but we are ashamed of nakedness" is a thought that I have always had on this subject. In most societies and in the 21st century, we continue to create the "morbid" before nudity and sexual issues. Perhaps the mental and sexual health of humanity would be healthier if it were not penalized so much the nakedness from the morbid and the religious and moralistic condemnations.
The only animals on the planet earth that dress with clothes are human beings. (Many clothes sadly come from other animals). We cover our body due to our power of reasoning, with which we have the faculty of reasoning (understanding) about the acts we perform with each other and about everything that surrounds us. The reality is that every human being is born naked, even so, to the majority of people, nakedness does not cause much embarrassment, to many other great complexes.
However, there are countries where sex education begins at an early age. Children and girls of 4 and 5 years are educated about what is a penis and a vagina, about how children are procreated (without the archaic story of the stork), as well as educated about sexual diversity and perspective of genre.
In these countries, in television movies and in the cinema, we can see scenes of nudes in which both men and women go totally naked and nobody is alarmed or makes a protest for it. These countries are mainly from Europe, as is the case of Spain, the Netherlands, or Canada. In Latin America there are several countries that this happens in the same way.
In many other countries, this type of education is still banned at an early age and the little sexual education offered in schools is very mechanical, abstract and superficial. It does not represent at all the true sexual reality of the human being, which is a serious danger.

The reason for this is due to religious and extremist ideas and condemnations, to a culture of machismo, a culture in which the "morbid in the face of nakedness" increased generation after generation.
Now, returning to the central theme of this opinion article; In my opinion, nudity is a representation of the human body that goes from being abstract, morbid and shameful, only if it is given explicitly and naturally. For this, it is important to have a well-educated society regarding sexuality, gender equity and human rights; (respect to the foreign body, to the differences, to the woman, and to the sexual orientations that exist beyond the heterosexual).
On the other hand, the issue of nudity represents a new challenge for the societies of this century. It is important to create more sexual education for all kinds of people, including the youngest, the children. The greater the sex education and the less the morbidity in the face of nudity, the less problems of sexual violations and sexual harassment there will be in our communities. (Education, good education, is the key to respect and healthy coexistence with each other).
Finally, there are people who have a natural personality characterized by wanting to be as private as possible in all aspects, including nudity. There are also other types of people who enjoy nakedness without embarrassment and complex, so they like to go to places or beaches intended for nudists. There are also people who love to portray themselves naked or in underwear for themselves, or to show it to others either in their circle of friends or in public; including social networks. On planet earth there is everything.