“I am Tato Oragvelidze and I’m a fashion designer. It has been quite a long time since I started fighting so that I and thousand other people like me have the right to love who we want to love, be happy with whom we want to be.
It’s very hurtful to me when it’s coming from people who I grew up with, who raised me, people who were in my life before I started analysing genders, when love for me was a one whole substance and was not divided into different pieces, pieces that got filthy because of various social constructs.”
“To love means to have a lot of problems and to be alone and these two are very incompatible with each other because society, not only in a wide sense but your own small society makes you choose between the two sides – on one side there is an absolute loneliness, plenty of financial and emotional problems and on the other side there is denying your individual self.”
“People make demands that you shouldn’t be the way you feel yourself, that you should suppress the feeling of loving someone when you’re 13. To me, those feelings are exactly what later define my creative or emotional life, my life in general. When I think about it, I always think about those boys and girls who were raised in my city and couldn’t manage to stay strong because it’s very difficult. You know, nobody chooses the situation that they are in. It’s not even funny when a conversation goes in that direction because it’s impossible to choose humiliation, solitude, to choose to be on other side where you oppose a vast majority of your country’s population.”,- Tato Oragvelidze
ვებ-გვერდი შექმნილია RFSU-ს ფინანსური მხარდაჭერით.
სიდა, შვედეთის განვითარების სააგენტო, მთლიანად ან ნაწილობრივ აფინანსებს ამ მასალას.
