This is a radio play, told in a humurous tone, to fight against LGTB
discrimination, encourage respect and break down stereotypes. Students
wrote the plot from this start point: on January 17th, John meets his
parents in the afternoon to confess them a terrible secret: I am
hetersosexual!!!!! Screams, cries. Now he will have to cope with all the
difficulties LGTB met during the 20th century.
Although it is a fiction plot, the historical, social, cultural and political elements are true.
On Friday, we went to see "The end of Eddy", a play against bullying, based on the autobiographical novel by Édouard Louis.
Here, some students' works:
The end of Eddy
The play starts with a summary about Eddie’s life, a gay boy who is born in a very low class family in a small French town which is 200km away from Paris.
He tells us that his dad is an authoritarian man who teaches their children (they all are boys) using bad works and violence and his only hobbies are getting drunk and watching TV while his mom spends her days washing the dishes and smoking.
Eddie’s life is very depressing so far, and it continues getting even worse when he's bullied at school and the only thing he can do to face the bullies is smile due to his nervousness.
But this is not all, when he starts acting like a female (according to his town society standards) even his dad starts to make fun of him with his friends. His mom also has got a very bad relationship with him since she finds him doing “grown-up activities" with his cousins in the shed.
Those events have a very negative effect on his mental health so he thinks that being gay is wrong and he decides to start dating girls to try to prove that he’s a macho man, which ends with Eddy being unable to get excited while “staying in a private zone” with the girls he flirted with. Anyway, having flirted with those girls makes his popularity levels increase a lot making him even be accepted in the group of popular guys.
The final act of the play is basically Eddie coming out of the closet.
In my personal and humble opinion, the play was quite good, if I had to say something bad about it, it would be that some scenes were a little bit explicit and out of context, but the rest was so cool. The actors besides having great skills to do their job, were also able to change the scenery and music on their own, which makes them even more skillful.
(By Juan Pablo Valle)
(By Miguel Pablo Lozano, María Ortega and Mª José Sánchez)
In his novel, Édouard Louis says: " The truth is a revenge
because we live in a world of lies, about poor people, about gay people,
about what we are, what we experience. Every time, truth is a fight.” Heartbreaking, isn't it?
In Belgium the constitutional
Court stated in 2019: ,,A person can change their gender once without any
medical reasons required and if they want to change it again they need to go to
family court with exceptional circumstances." (transgender law). This law got partly overtuned now.
There was an idea to give people
the third option (X) on their ID but the government has chosen to delete the
gender option completely.
After the technically aspects are
finished this will go through. There will still have to be looked after, if
this will make it harder to travel and how new cards will be given.
Although this will be globally
something big for Belgium and the LGBTQI+ community, it can have a few
disadvantages. For example if there will be trouble in the investigation for
discrimination between genders, in sports the class diffrences between genders
and how everything will change is being looked at by the government. The gender
will therefore still be registered somewhere.
So you can see Belgium is making
proces together with other countries, who already have or will have an option
for the non-binary gender; Denmark, Portugal, Iceland,
Austria,
Malta, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, several US states, Argentina
and The Netherlands will have a third option in 2024.
Zoë
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