Today marks the first day of Pride Month in Israel and just before the opening of the Pride Parades and LGBT community celebrations, the successful singer recalls Ran Danker The difficult period in which he hid his sexual identity. In July seven years ago the singer first came out of the closet, cracking a relationship with Itai Weiser And is now married to him and raising with him Weiser’s two daughters.
In a revealing post he shared this morning, with a record of his performance wrapped in a pride flag, the singer recalled the wasted years he lived in a lie, that society made him feel guilty and damaged and that he had to hide his heart in order to survive. “Today I want a moment to hug me. I wasted precious years on guilt that hurt my body. Guilt for being vulnerable and delicate Sometimes guilt for my desire to search outside the ‘marked paths’ Guilt for ‘forbidden’ thoughts, guilt that I love both Hagar and Matan , Guilt that the institutional studies did not interest me, guilt about crying at recess when Dad did not come. Lots of guilt. And you know what I felt most guilty about? That society supports you to continue to feel guilty as if you are “damaged” or wrong or different. “That you’re really fine and that’s how it should be because the body speaks! But I learned to hide my heart in order to survive, to live.”
And continued “To this day there are remnants of ancient fear, of guilt that creeps in, of feeling that I am” damaged ” Of the lost years, know I have me today, and in life I will not give up my freedom to be who I am – colorful, vulnerable, sensitive, strong, contradictory, obscure, weak, incredibly smart, the one who is afraid to cross the intersection but also stops traffic and lets everyone cross and a little Guilty. No one can define another person because a definition by nature ends up breaking down. There is no right family, there is a family of love. “Kinds of flowers. So let yourself flourish. Talk to myself too.”