Homosexual and AIDS: discrimination or misunderstanding

What occurs in your mind when you hear the words “homosexual” and “Aids”? There is no doubt that you will frown even before your knowing. The picture you visualize is dirty and disgusting. Someone related to these are always thought to be evil and regarded as a threat to the society. People will stare at these people as if they were monsters. But do we really know what life is like for them?

Last night, I finished watching the movie “Philadelphia”. In it, Tom Hanks plays an outstanding counselor. He loves the law, knows the law and is delegated crucial job in the most prestigious law office in the state. But he is homosexual. And more, he is transmitted with AIDS through an improper sex experience. He was fired. And since then, he started his journey to fight in court for his right.

In our minds, AIDS is always related to drug use, obscene sex and all the dirty things that can not be put on the table. As if it is not the disease but the people who suffer from it that are hateful. However, their reason for getting Aids may be lack of knowledge, unclean medical implement or merely accident. None of them will not feel regret after they got the disease. They confess all through their lives. But what role do we usually play? We stand far at the side, with our arms crossed and hiss with disgust that “we don’t buy it!” what a torment it is for these people. The pain they suffer physically is no compare to the pain they suffer in heart. They feel abandoned by the society and are forced to live in misery in the rest of their lives. In the movie, a patient claimed in court, “We are not guilty. We are not innocent. We are just struggling to survive.”
The law office kept highlighting that it was through his sex experience with another man that he caught AIDS. But is it sinful? Truly, it is antichrist. But it is not against the law, especially the law of the United States of America, a place where equal right is put on a highest place. Law should be blind before sex, color, age, and sexual preference included. There is a beautiful story that explains the origin of homosexual. At the first stage of the world, all the human beings were bonded in two, with some one man one woman, some two women and some two men. The god found it no fun. So he decided to separate them. After that, the two tried desperately to find the other part. In this sense, there is no wrong to have a partner of the same sex at all. It is true that homos will make us feel uncomfortable, but should we set all the blame on them just because they are different?

The climax of the movie came when the young man listened to his favorite opera. The first murmuring gradually gave way to madly exclamation, “I am divine! --- I am god! --- I am love! ---” Tears rushed out from his eyes. He was desperate but hopeful. He was a fighter. With his heart bleeding, he still stands to fight till the end, till the end.

After a long battle, he finally won his case, and he closed his eyes tranquilly. C’est Lavie! What should we do? How should we face them? It is time to think.