“My parents were terrified”, commented the carnival worker who aibd sent a message to the prejudiced
Last Monday, the 30th, the carnival Milton Cunha celebrated his 61st birthday and recalled his difficult childhood in Pará due to identifying as a gay man since he was a child.
During his participation in the podcast Par ou Ímpar, Milton spoke of prejudice within his home and that he was unable to enjoy his youth due to AIDS.
“I was a ‘fag’ kid. The 4-year-old me already had these mannerisms. My father, my mother, my grandparents were terrified. I thought I was just spending time there, that it was rainy, stormy and that when I turned 19, I would leave. I just had to survive until I was 19.”remembered.
“When puberty comes, when it’s time to ‘let go’, AIDS comes. My youth, my beginning of maturity is loneliness. I say: ‘Wow, it’s my turn soon?’ An entire generation disappeared in the 80s and 90s, right? I didn’t have sex as much as I should have. I didn’t have sex, I’m a child of repression”continued.
“People who don’t accept human rights, people who don’t accept the freedom to be what they were born to be, I don’t want these people, I put them aside. Be happy, but don’t come near me”, he spoke.
“You are not my thing, you are not my group. My thing is the people who live and let live”, concluded.
Source: Maxima
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