Soon after she came to terms with who she really was, she received training as filmmaker given by Color Rainbow, a LGBT right organisation. So do new technologies as recounts of what it is to be LGBT encourage others to break the ranks. ”Yes, I’m a Lesbian and like hot girls” she says in a laugh.Ĭan Dal notices that more and more LGBT people are being open about their sexuality. However, she decided to come out from the closet after she was trained as a human right activist for Equality Myanmar, a local association, in 2016. Burmese people believe women are lower than men and in her community, the fact that she dressed like a boy earn her the respect of older men in the village. Paradoxically, prejudices worked to her advantage. No, that feeling came from deep inside my body.” She secretly fostered an identity of her own, without her family knowing who she really was: a girl who likes girl.
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“My parents did not push me to be the way I am,” she says, “they even tried to convince me to dress and act like a girl when I grew older. The first born of a large family, her parents dressed her like a boy and entrusted her with responsibilities usually devolved to young men.īut she was not made a gay. Raised and born in an ordinary family in Mon State, Can Dal knew she was different when she was a teenager.
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In fact, the definition that she gives of love is a “bond based on mutual understanding”. But she recognised that love matters are of concern for everybody.
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She refused to bow for her answer is a resounding: “No, love knows no gender”.
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The director, Can Dal, was offered an option: get rid of this last shot and have her movie screened, or stick to her guns.