TEDxWomen 2012
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
iO Tillett Wright: viiskümmend gei varjundit
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Kunstnik iO Tillett Wright on pildistanud 2000 inimest, kes enda hinnangul kuuluvad kuhugi LBGT (lesbi, bi, gei, trans) spektrisse, ja küsinud neist paljude käest: kas te oskate määratleda, mitu protsenti gei või hetero te olete? Selgub, et enamik inimestest kuulub enda arvates seksuaalsuse halli tsooni, olemata sajaprotsendiliselt gei või hetero. See tõstatab tõsise probleemi, kui asi puudutab diskrimineerimist: kuhu tõmmata piir? (Filmitud üritusel TEDxWomen.)
iO Tillett Wright - Photographer
As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist. Full bio
As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist. Full bio
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Human beings start putting each other into boxes
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Inimesed hakkavad üksteist kastidesse lahterdama
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the second that they see each other --
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samal hetkel, kui nad üksteist näevad -
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Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?
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kas see inimene on ohtlik? On ta veetlev?
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Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?
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On ta mu potentsiaalne kaaslane? Peitub temas võimalus kontakte luua?
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We do this little interrogation when we meet people
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Me teostame inimestega kohtudes selle väikese ristküsitluse,
00:29
to make a mental resume for them.
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et koostada neist mõtteline isikukirjeldus.
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What's your name? Where are you from?
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Mis su nimi on? Kust sa pärit oled?
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How old are you? What do you do?
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Kui vana sa oled? Millega sa tegeled?
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Then we get more personal with it.
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Siis läheme veelgi isiklikumaks.
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Have you ever had any diseases?
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Kas sa oled kunagi põdenud mingeid haigusi?
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Have you ever been divorced?
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Kas sa oled kunagi lahutanud?
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Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?
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Kas su hingeõhk haiseb, kui sa mu küsimustele vastad?
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What are you into? Who are you into?
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Mis sulle meeldib? Kes sulle meeldib?
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What gender do you like to sleep with?
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Mis soost inimestega sulle meeldib magada?
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I get it.
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Ma saan aru.
00:54
We are neurologically hardwired
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Meid on neuroloogiliselt programmeeritud
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to seek out people like ourselves.
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otsima endasarnaseid inimesi.
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We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough
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Me hakkame klikke looma niipea, kui oleme küllalt vanad,
01:00
to know what acceptance feels like.
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et teada, mis tunne on olla aktsepteeritud.
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We bond together based on anything that we can --
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Meid seovad ühte kõikvõimalikud asjad -
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music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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muusikalised eelistused, rass, sugu, kvartal, kus me üles kasvasime.
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We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.
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Me otsime keskkondi, mis toetavad meie isiklikke valikuid.
01:17
Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"
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Aga vahel võib küsimus "millega sa tegeled?"
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can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box
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mõjuda, nagu keegi avaks väikese karbikese
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and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.
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ja nõuaks, et sa end sinna sisse pressiksid.
01:23
Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.
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Olen aru saanud, et kategooriad on liiga kitsendavad.
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The boxes are too narrow.
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Kastid on liiga kitsad.
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And this can get really dangerous.
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Ja see võib muutuda väga ohtlikuks.
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So here's a disclaimer about me, though,
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Aga kõigepealt üks eitus minu kohta,
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before we get too deep into this.
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enne kui me liiga sügavale tungime.
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I grew up in a very sheltered environment.
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Ma kasvasin üles väga turvalises keskkonnas.
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I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,
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Ma kasvasin Manhattanil, kesklinnas, 1980ndate alguses,
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two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.
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kahe kvartali kaugusel punkmuusika epitsentrist.
01:44
I was shielded from the pains of bigotry
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Ma olin kaitstud väiklaste eelarvamuste piinade
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and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
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ja usul põhineva kasvatuse sotsiaalsete piirangute eest.
01:51
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker
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Meie kandis oli nii, et kui sa polnud transvestiit, radikaalne mõtleja
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or a performance artist of some kind,
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või mingit sorti etenduskunstnik,
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you were the weirdo.
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peeti sind veidrikuks.
01:58
(Laughter)
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(Naer.)
01:59
It was an unorthodox upbringing,
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See ei olnud traditsiooniline kasvatus,
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but as a kid on the streets of New York,
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aga lapsena New Yorgi tänavatel
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you learn how to trust your own instincts,
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õpid sa usaldama oma vaistu,
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you learn how to go with your own ideas.
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õpid oma peaga mõtlema.
02:09
So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.
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Kui ma olin kuueaastane, otsustasin, et tahan olla poiss.
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I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.
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Läksin ühel päeval kooli ja lapsed ei võtnud mind endaga korvpalli mängima.
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They said they wouldn't let girls play.
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Nad ütlesid, et tüdrukud ei tohi mängida.
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So I went home, and I shaved my head,
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Ma läksin koju, ajasin oma pea paljaks,
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and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."
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läksin järgmisel päeval tagasi ja ütlesin: "Ma olen poiss."
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I mean, who knows, right?
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Tähendab, kes teab, eks?
02:22
When you're six, maybe you can do that.
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Kui sa oled kuueaastane, siis võib-olla läheb see läbi.
02:26
I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
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Ma ei tahtnud, et keegi teaks, et ma olen tüdruk, ja nad ei teadnudki.
02:30
I kept up the charade for eight years.
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Ma jätkasin seda teesklust kaheksa aastat.
02:32
So this is me when I was 11.
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Siin olen mina 11-aastasena.
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I was playing a kid named Walter
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Ma mängisin poissi nimega Walter
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in a movie called "Julian Po."
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filmis nimega "Julian Po".
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I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.
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Ma olin väike tänavapoiss, kes jälitas Christian Slaterit ja tüütas teda.
02:43
See, I was also a child actor,
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Vaadake, ma olin ka lapsnäitleja,
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which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,
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mis lisas veel ühe kihi minu lavastatud identiteedile,
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because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
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sest mitte keegi ei teadnud, et ma olin tüdruk, kes mängib poissi.
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In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --
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Tegelikult ei teadnud mu elus mitte keegi, et ma olen tüdruk -
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not my teachers at school, not my friends,
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ei õpetajad koolis, ei sõbrad,
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not the directors that I worked with.
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ei lavastajad, kellega ma töötasin.
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Kids would often come up to me in class
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Lapsed tulid sageli klassis minu juurde
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and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple
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ja haarasid mul kõrist, et kontrollida, kas mul on aadamaõun,
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or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.
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või haarasid mind kubemest, et kontrollida, mis värk on.
03:09
When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls
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Kui ma tualetti läksin, keerasin oma kingad kabiinis teistpidi,
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so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.
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et paistaks, nagu ma pissiksin seistes.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks
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Pidžaamapidudel haarasid mind paanikahood,
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trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me
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kui ma pidin tüdrukutele selgeks tegema, et neil oleks targem mind mitte suudelda,
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without outing myself.
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samas püüdes end mitte reeta.
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It's worth mentioning though
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Aga tuleks mainida,
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that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.
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et ma ei vihanud oma keha ega suguelundeid.
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I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.
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Ma ei tundnud, nagu ma oleksin vales kehas.
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I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.
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Ma tundsin, et ma esinen keerukas lavastuses.
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I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.
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Ma ei oleks soovahetajana läbi läinud.
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If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,
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Kui mu perekond oleks uskunud teraapiasse,
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they probably would have diagnosed me
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oleksid nad ilmselt diagnoosinud mul
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as something like gender dysmorphic
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midagi düsmorfse kehatajuhäire sarnast
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and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.
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ja määranud mulle hormoonravi, et puberteeti edasi lükata.
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But in my particular case,
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Aga minuga juhtus nii,
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I just woke up one day when I was 14,
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et ma lihtsalt ärkasin ühel päeval, kui olin 14,
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and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.
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ja otsustasin, et ma tahan jälle tüdruk olla.
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Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,
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Puberteet oli käes ja mul polnud aimugi, mida tähendab tüdruk olla
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and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
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ja ma olin valmis teada saama, kes ma tegelikult olen.
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When a kid behaves like I did,
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Kui laps käitub nagu mina,
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they don't exactly have to come out, right?
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siis ta ei peagi kapist välja tulema, eks?
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No one is exactly shocked.
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Keegi pole ju tegelikult šokeeritud.
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(Laughter)
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(Naer.)
04:04
But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
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Mu vanemad ei palunud mul end määratleda.
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When I was 15, and I called my father
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Kui ma olin 15 ja helistasin oma isale,
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to tell him that I had fallen in love,
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et öelda talle, et ma olin armunud,
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it was the last thing on either of our minds
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ei tulnud meile kummalegi pähe
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to discuss what the consequences were
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arutada, mis on selle tagajärjed,
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of the fact that my first love was a girl.
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et mu esimene armastus oli tüdruk.
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Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,
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Kolm aastat hiljem, kui ma armusin mehesse,
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neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
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ei pilgutanud kumbki mu vanematest silmagi.
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See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood
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See oli üks mu väga tavatu lapsepõlve suuri hüvesid,
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that I wasn't ever asked to define myself
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et mind ei palutud kunagi end määratleda
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as any one thing at any point.
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kellegi konkreetsena.
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I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.
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Mul lasti lihtsalt olla mina ise, kasvada ja muutuda iga hetkega.
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So four, almost five years ago,
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Neli, või peaaegu viis aastat tagasi
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Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,
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tekitas 8. seaduseelnõu, suur debatt võrdse abieluõiguse üle
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was raising a lot of dust around this country.
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siin riigis palju kõmu.
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And at the time, getting married wasn't really something
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Toona ei olnud abiellumine õieti asi,
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I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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millele ma oleksin kuigi palju mõelnud.
04:47
But I was struck by the fact that America,
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Aga mind rabas fakt, et Ameerikas,
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a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,
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riigis, kus kodanikuõigusi on nii sageli jalge alla tallatud,
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could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
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võidaks oma vigu nii jultunult korrata.
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And I remember watching the discussion on television
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Mäletan, et vaatasin telekast arutelu
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and thinking how interesting it was
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ja mõtlesin, kui huvitav see on,
04:58
that the separation of church and state
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et kiriku ja riigi lahutamine
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was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,
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oli esmajoones geograafiliste piiride tõmbamine läbi kogu maa,
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between places where people believed in it
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nende kohtade vahele, kus inimesed sellesse uskusid
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and places where people didn't.
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ja nende kohtade, kus nad ei uskunud.
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And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
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Ja et see arutelu tõmbas geograafilisi piire ka minu ümber.
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If this was a war with two disparate sides,
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Kui see oli sõda kahe kardinaalselt erineva poole vahel,
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I, by default, fell on team gay,
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siis mina langesin enesestmõistetavalt geide meeskonda,
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because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
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sest ma ei olnud 100% hetero.
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At the time I was just beginning to emerge
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Tol ajal hakkasin ma just väljuma
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from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag
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kaheksa-aastasest isikliku identiteedikriisi siksakist,
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that saw me go from being a boy
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mille kestel ma muutusin poisist
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to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes
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kohmetuks tüdrukuks, kes nägi välja nagu tüdrukuks riietatud poiss,
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to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,
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liikusin sealt omakorda teise äärmusse, saades ülisaledaks
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over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl
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liiga agaraks, poisse taga ajavaks beibelikuks tüdrukuks,
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to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,
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kuni lõpuks jõudsin kõhkleva avastuseni, kes ma tegelikult olen,
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a tomboyish girl
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poisilik tüdruk,
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who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
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kellele meeldivad nii poisid kui ka tüdrukud, sõltuvalt inimesest.
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I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,
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Ma veetsin terve aasta, pildistades seda uut tüdrukute põlvkonda, kes on minu sarnased,
05:56
who fell kind of between-the-lines --
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kes jäävad justkui ridade vahele -
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girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,
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tüdrukuid, kes sõidavad rulaga, aga teevad seda pitspesus,
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girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,
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tüdrukuid, kellel on poisilik soeng, aga tütarlapselik küünelakk,
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girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,
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tüdrukuid, kelle lauvärv on nende kriimustatud põlvedega sama tooni,
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girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls
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tüdrukuid, kellele meeldivad tüdrukud ja poisid, kellele meeldivad poisid ja tüdrukud,
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who all hated being boxed in to anything.
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kes kõik vihkasid, et neid kuhugi kasti püüti suruda.
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I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,
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Ma armastasin neid inimesi ja imetlesin nende vabadust,
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but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble
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aga ma nägin, kuidas maailm väljaspool meie utoopia mulli
06:20
exploded into these raging debates
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sukeldus raevukatesse debattidesse,
06:22
where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
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kus arvamusliidrid hakkasid riigitelevisioonis meie armastust zoofiliaga võrldema.
06:27
And this powerful awareness rolled in over me
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Ja mulle jõudis võimsa lainena kohale arusaamine,
06:30
that I was a minority, and in my own home country,
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et ma kuulun omaenda kodumaal vähemusse
06:35
based on one facet of my character.
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seoses ühe tahuga oma loomusest.
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I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.
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Ma olin seaduse silmis vaieldamatult teise järgu kodanik.
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I was not an activist.
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Ma ei olnud aktivist.
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I wave no flags in my own life.
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Ma ei tavatse elus lippudega lehvitada.
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But I was plagued by this question:
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Aga mind painas see küsimus:
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How could anyone vote to strip the rights
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kuidas võib keegi hääletada, et võtta ära õigused
06:52
of the vast variety of people that I knew
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suurelt osalt inimestest, keda ma tunnen,
06:55
based on one element of their character?
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seoses ühe osakesega nende loomusest?
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How could they say that we as a group
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Kuidas on võimalik öelda, et meie kui inimgrupp
07:00
were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?
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ei vääri võrdseid õigusi kõigi teistega?
07:02
Were we even a group? What group?
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Kas me üldse olime grupp? Milline grupp?
07:05
And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?
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Ja kas need inimesed on kunagi teadlikult kohtunud mõne oma diskrimineerimise ohvriga?
07:09
Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
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Kas nad teavad, kelle vastu nad hääletavad ja mis on selle tagajärg?
07:13
And then it occurred to me,
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Siis tuli mulle pähe,
07:15
perhaps if they could look into the eyes
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et võib-olla, kui nad saaksid silma vaadata
07:17
of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship
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inimestele, keda nad liigitavad teise järgu kodanikeks,
07:21
it might make it harder for them to do.
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oleks neil raskem seda teha.
07:23
It might give them pause.
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Võib-olla see paneks nad mõtlema.
07:25
Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,
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Loomulikult ei saanud ma kutsuda 20 miljonit inimest õhtusöögile,
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so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically
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niisiis mõtlesin välja viisi, kuidas neid üksteisele fotode teel tutvustada,
07:35
without any artifice, without any lighting,
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ilma mingite nõksudeta, ilma valgustuseta,
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or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
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ilma igasuguse minupoolse manipulatsioonita.
07:41
Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers
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Sest fotol saad sa uurida lõvi vurre
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without the fear of him ripping your face off.
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ilma kartmata, et ta rebib sul pea otsast.
07:46
For me, photography is not just about exposing film,
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Minu jaoks ei tähenda fotograafia mitte ainult filmi ilmutamist,
07:50
it's about exposing the viewer
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see tähendab ilmutust vaatajale,
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to something new, a place they haven't gone before,
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tema viimist uude kohta, kus ta varem pole olnud,
07:54
but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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aga ennekõike tema tutvustamist inimestega, keda ta võib karta.
07:57
Life magazine introduced generations of people
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Ajakiri "Life" tutvustas mitmetele põlvkondadele
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to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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läbi fotode kaugeid ja tundmatuid tsivilisatsioone.
08:03
So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,
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Otsustasin teha seeria väga lihtsaid portreesid,
08:09
mugshots if you will.
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ütleme, passipilte.
08:11
And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country
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Laias laastus otsustasin pildistada igaühte siin riigis,
08:15
that was not 100 percent straight,
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kes ei ole 100% hetero,
08:17
which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
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mis, kui te ei tea, on piiramatu hulk inimesi.
08:20
(Laughter)
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(Naer.)
08:23
So this was a very large undertaking,
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See oli väga suur ettevõtmine
08:25
and to do it we needed some help.
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ja me vajasime selleks abi.
08:27
So I ran out in the freezing cold,
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Jooksin kibekülma ilmaga ringi
08:30
and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to
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ja pildistasin igaühte, keda teadsin ja kes oli mulle kättesaadav,
08:33
in February of about two years ago.
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veebruaris, umbes kaks aastat tagasi.
08:37
And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.
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Tegin fotod, läksin Inimõiguste nõukogusse ja palusin neilt abi.
08:41
And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.
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Nad rahastasid kahenädalast fotosessiooni New Yorgis.
08:43
And then we made this.
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Ja siis me tegime selle.
08:46
(Music)
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(Muusika.)
08:59
Video: I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.
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Video: Mina olen iO Tillett Wright, New Yorgis sündinud ja kasvanud kunstnik.
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(Music)
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(Muusika.)
09:16
Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.
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"Enesestmõistetavad tõed" on fotojäädvustus LGBT kogukonnast Ameerikas.
09:21
My aim is to take a simple portrait
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Mu eesmärk on teha lihtne portree
09:23
of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight
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ükskõik kellest, kes pole 100% hetero
09:25
or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
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või tunneb, et ta kuulub mingil viisil LGBT spektrisse.
09:30
My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us
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Minu eesmärk on näidata inimlikkust, mis on meis kõigis,
09:33
through the simplicity of a face.
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läbi sellise lihtsa asja nagu nägu.
09:36
(Music)
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(Muusika.)
09:38
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
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"Me peame iseenesestmõistetavaks, et kõik inimesed on loodud võrdseteks."
09:41
It's written in the Declaration of Independence.
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Nii on kirjutatud Iseseisvusdeklaratsiooni.
09:44
We are failing as a nation
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Meil ei ole õnnestunud
09:45
to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
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hoida moraalseid väärtusi, millele meie riik rajati.
09:47
There is no equality in the United States.
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USAs ei ole võrdsust.
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["What does equality mean to you?"]
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["Mida võrdsus teie jaoks tähendab?"]
09:52
["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]
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["Abielu"] ["Vabadus"] ["Kodanikuõigused"]
09:53
["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]
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["Kohtle iga inimest nagu kohtleksid iseennast"]
09:55
It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
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See toimib, kui sa ei pea sellele mõtlema, nii lihtne see ongi.
09:59
The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
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Võitlus võrdsete õiguste eest ei puuduta ainult samasooliste abielu.
10:02
Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,
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Täna võidakse 29 osariigis, ehk rohkem kui pooltes,
10:06
you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.
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sind seaduslikult vallandada sinu seksuaalsuse pärast.
10:10
["Who is responsible for equality?"]
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["Kes vastutab võrdsuse eest?"]
10:13
I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:
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Ma olen kuulnud sadu inimesi andmas sama vastust:
10:16
"We are all responsible for equality."
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"Me kõik vastutame võrdsuse eest."
10:20
So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.
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Siiani oleme pildistanud 300 nägu New Yorgis.
10:23
And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it
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Me poleks saanud seda teha
10:24
without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.
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ilma Inimõiguste nõukogu helde toetuseta.
10:27
I want to take the project across the country.
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Ma tahan laiendada seda projekti üle kogu maa.
10:29
I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
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Tahan külastada 25 USA linna ja pildistada 4000 või 5000 inimest.
10:33
This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
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See on minu panus võitlusse minu põlvkonna kodanikuõiguste eest.
10:37
I challenge you to look into the faces of these people
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Esitan teile väljakutse vaadata neile inimestele näkku
10:39
and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.
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ja öelda neile, et nad väärivad vähem kui iga teine inimene.
10:42
(Music)
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(Muusika.)
10:44
["Self evident truths"]
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["Enesestmõistetavad tõed"]
10:46
["4,000 faces across America"]
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["4000 nägu üle kogu Ameerika"]
10:48
(Music)
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(Muusika.)
10:53
(Applause)
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(Aplaus.)
11:01
iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.
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iO Tillett Wright: Me ei oleks iial osanud arvata, mis järgmiseks juhtub.
11:05
Almost 85,000 people watched that video,
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Peaaegu 85 000 inimest vaatas seda videot
11:08
and then they started emailing us from all over the country,
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ja me hakkasime saama e-kirju kõikjalt üle kogu maa,
11:11
asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.
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kus meil paluti tulla nende linna ja aidata neil oma nägusid näidata.
11:16
And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.
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Palju rohkem inimesi, kui ma oleksin oodanud, tahtis näidata oma nägu.
11:20
So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.
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Ma suurendasin oma lähemat eesmärki 10 000 näoni.
11:24
That video was made in the spring of 2011,
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See video valmis 2011. aasta kevadel
11:28
and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities
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ja tänaseks olen käinud peaaegu 20 linnas
11:31
and photographed almost 2,000 people.
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ja pildistanud peaaegu 2000 inimest.
11:34
I know that this is a talk,
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Ma tean, et see on kõne,
11:37
but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet
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aga ma sooviksin minutit vaikust
11:40
and have you just look at these faces
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ja et te lihtsalt vaataksite neid nägusid,
11:41
because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
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sest mul ei ole neile mitte midagi lisada.
11:45
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,
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Sest kui pilt on väärt tuhandet sõna,
11:48
then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
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siis näopilt vajab tervet sõnaraamatut.
12:12
So after traveling and talking to people
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Pärast ringisõitmist ja inimestega rääkimist
12:16
in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,
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kohtades nagu Oklahoma või Texase väikelinnad,
12:20
we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
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leidsime tõendust, et meie eeldus läks täppi.
12:24
Visibility really is key.
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Nähtavuses on tõesti võti.
12:25
Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.
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Tuttavlikkus avab ukse empaatiale.
12:29
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,
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Kui mingi küsimus kerkib esile su oma hoovi peal või perekonnas,
12:32
you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it
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on palju tõenäolisem, et sa vaatled seda kaastundlikult
12:35
or explore a new perspective on it.
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või lähened sellele uuest vaatepunktist.
12:37
Of course, in my travels I met people
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Loomulikult kohtasin ma oma reisidel inimesi,
12:39
who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,
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kes ütlesid ametlikult lahti oma lastest, kuna nad ei olnud heterod,
12:43
but I also met people who were Southern Baptists
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aga ma kohtasin ka inimesi, kes olid lõunaosariikide baptistid
12:46
who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
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ja kes vahetasid kirikut, sest nende tütar oli lesbi.
12:49
Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.
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Empaatia tekitamine oli muutunud "Enesestmõistetavate tõdede" selgrooks.
12:53
But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:
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Aga ma hakkasin mõistma midagi väga huvitavat:
12:56
Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.
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"Enesestmõistetavad tõed" ei kustuta meie vahelt erinevusi.
13:01
In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
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Tegelikult on vastupidi, see tõstab need esile.
13:04
It presents, not just the complexities
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See ei kujuta mitte ainult keerukusi,
13:06
found in a procession of different human beings,
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mida võib leida erinevate inimeste reastamisest,
13:08
but the complexities found within each individual person.
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vaid ka keerukusi, mis asuvad igaühes isiklikult.
13:12
It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.
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Meil ei olnud mitte liiga palju kaste, vaid liiga vähe.
13:23
At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,
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Mingil hetkel mõistsin, et minu missioon pildistada "geisid" oli põhimõtteliselt vale,
13:30
because there were a million different shades of gay.
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sest gei olemisel on miljon erinevat varjundit.
13:33
Here I was trying to help,
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Ma püüdsin inimesi aidata,
13:36
and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --
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aga olin põlistanud selle, mida püüdsin kogu elu vältida -
13:39
yet another box.
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järjekordse kasti.
13:41
At some point I added a question to the release form
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Ühel hetkel lisasin osavõtuankeedile küsimuse,
13:45
that asked people to quantify themselves
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kus palusin inimestel arvuliselt määratleda,
13:46
on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
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kui palju neis on geid, skaalal ühest sajani.
13:49
And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.
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Ja nägin, kuidas paljude inimeste eksistentsiaalne kriis minu ees lahti rullus.
13:53
(Laughter)
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(Naer.)
13:56
People didn't know what to do
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Inimesed ei teadnud, mida teha,
13:57
because they had never been presented with the option before.
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sest neile ei olnud kunagi sellist valikuvarianti esitatud.
14:00
Can you quantify your openness?
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Kas te suudate arvuliselt määratleda, kui avatud te olete?
14:02
Once they got over the shock, though,
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Kuid kui nad šokist üle said,
14:04
by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent
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pakkus enamik mingit arvu, mis jääb 70% ja 95% vahele
14:08
or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
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või siis 3% ja 20% vahele.
14:10
Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,
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Muidugi oli ka palju neid, kes kinnitasid, et nad on 100% üks või teine,
14:13
but I found that a much larger proportion of people
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aga ma avastasin, et palju suurem hulk inimesi
14:15
identified as something that was much more nuanced.
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määratles end palju nüansirikkamalt.
14:18
I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."
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Sain teada, et enamik kuulub spektri osasse, mida olen hakanud nimetama "halliks".
14:25
Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --
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Ütlen siiski otsesõnu - ja see on väga tähtis -
14:29
in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.
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et ma ei väida mingil juhul, nagu eelistusi ei oleks olemas.
14:33
And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,
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Ja ma ei hakka üldse käsitlema teemat valik versus bioloogiline sund,
14:38
because if any of you happen to be of the belief
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sest kui keegi teist juhuslikult usub,
14:41
that sexual orientation is a choice,
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et seksuaalne orientatsioon sõltub valikust,
14:43
I invite you to go out and try to be grey.
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siis ma kutsun teid üles proovima olla hall.
14:44
I'll take your picture just for trying.
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Ma teen teist tänu proovimisele pilti.
14:47
(Laughter)
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(Naer.)
14:48
What I am saying though is that human beings are not one-dimensional.
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Kuid ma väidan, et inimesed ei ole ühemõõtmelised.
14:52
The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:
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Kõige olulisem sõnum selles protsentide süsteemis on see:
14:58
If you have gay people over here
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kui siin on geid
15:00
and you have straight people over here,
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ja siin on heterod
15:04
and while we recognize that most people identify
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ja kui me tunnistame, et enamik inimestest määratleb
15:07
as somewhere closer to one binary or another,
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end kuuluvana kas ühte või teise äärmusesse,
15:10
there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.
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siis on suur hulk inimesi, kes kuuluvad sinna vahepeale.
15:15
And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.
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Ja see muudab olukorra keeruliseks.
15:18
Because, for example, if you pass a law
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Sest kui te võtate vastu seaduse,
15:20
that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,
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mis lubab ülemusel vallandada oma alluv homoseksuaalse käitumise eest,
15:23
where exactly do you draw the line?
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siis kuhu te õieti piiri tõmbate?
15:26
Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?
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Kas siia, kus inimestel on olnud siiani üks või kaks heteroseksuaalset kogemust?
15:32
Or is it over here
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Või siia,
15:33
by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?
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kus inimestel on olnud siiani ainult üks või kaks homoseksuaalset kogemust?
15:37
Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?
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Kust täpselt algab teise järgu kodanikuks olemine?
15:42
Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels
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Veel üks huvitav asi, mida ma oma projekti ja reiside ajal teada sain,
15:47
is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.
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on see, kui vilets sideaine on seksuaalne orientatsioon.
15:51
After traveling so much and meeting so many people,
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Olles nii palju reisinud ja nii paljude inimestega kohtunud,
15:54
let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts
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uskuge mind, jobusid ja imetoredaid inimesi, täpselt nagu
15:57
and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens
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demokraate ja vabariiklasi või spordiässasid ja drag queene
16:00
and every other polarization you can possibly think of
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või ükskõik, milliseid vastandeid te ka välja ei mõtleks,
16:03
within the LGBT community
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on LGBT kogukonnas sama palju,
16:05
as there are within the human race.
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nagu inimkonnas üldiselt.
16:09
Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,
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Kui arvata välja fakt, et meie mängime, üks käsi seaduse poolt selja taha seotud,
16:14
and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,
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ja unustada ära eelarvamuste ja võitluste levinud narratiiv,
16:17
just being other than straight
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ei tähenda see, et me ei ole heterod,
16:19
doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.
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tingimata seda, et meil oleks midagi ühist.
16:24
So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,
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"Enesestmõistetavatest tõdedest" on saanud lõputu nägude vohamine
16:32
as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,
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ja loodetavasti ilmuvad need üha enamatele platvormidele,
16:35
bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,
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bussipeatustesse, reklaamtahvlitele, Facebooki lehekülgedele, puhkerežiimil kuvaritele
16:41
perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,
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ning seda inimkonna protsessiooni jälgides
16:44
something interesting and useful will begin to happen.
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võib ehk hakata juhtuma midagi huvitavat ja kasulikku.
16:47
Hopefully these categories, these binaries,
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Loodetavasti need kategooriad, vastandamised,
16:50
these over-simplified boxes
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need üle-lihtsustatud kastid
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will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.
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muutuvad kasutuks ja langevad ära.
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Because really, they describe nothing that we see
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Sest nad ei kirjelda mitte kuidagi seda, mida me näeme,
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and no one that we know and nothing that we are.
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keda me tunneme, ega kes me oleme.
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What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.
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Me näeme inimesi kogu nende mitmekesisuses.
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And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.
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Ja nende nägemine muudab raskemaks eitada nende inimlikkust.
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At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
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Vähemalt ma loodan, et see muudab raskemaks keelata neile inimõigusi.
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So is it me particularly
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Kas see olen konkreetselt mina,
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that you would choose to deny the right to housing,
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kellele te otsustaksite keelata õigust kodule,
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the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,
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õigust adopteerida lapsi, õigust abielluda,
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the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?
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vabadust siin poodelda, elada, osta?
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Am I the one that you choose to disown
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Kas mina olen see, kellest te olete otsustanud lahti öelda
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as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,
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kui oma lapsest, vennast, õest, emast või isast,
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your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,
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naabrist, nõbust, onust, presidendist,
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your police woman or the fireman?
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naispolitseinikust või tuletõrjujast?
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It's too late.
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Selleks on liiga hilja.
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Because I already am all of those things.
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Sest ma olen juba kõike seda.
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We already are all of those things, and we always have been.
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Me juba oleme kõike seda ja me oleme alati olnud.
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So please don't greet us as strangers,
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Palun ärge võtke meid võõrastena,
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greet us as your fellow human beings, period.
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võtke meid oma kaasinimestena ja punkt.
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Thank you.
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Aitäh.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaus.)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
iO Tillett Wright - PhotographerAs a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist.
Why you should listen
iO Tillett Wright thanks his parents for not asking him to define himself as a child. His experience of growing up without having check boxes like “female,” “male,” “gay” or straight” thoroughly infuses his art.
iO’s photography can be seen regularly in two features in The New York Times: Notes from the Underground and The Lowdown. He is also the creator of Self Evident Truths—an ongoing project to document the wide variety of experiences in LGBTQ America. So far, he has photographed about 2,000 people for the project. His goal: 10,000 portraits and a nationwide rethinking of discriminatory laws.
iO had his first solo show at Fuse gallery in New York City in 2010, and exhibited his work at The Hole Gallery in early summer of 2012. He has published three books of photographs; Lose My Number, KISSER, and Look Ma’, No Hands. He has directed several music videos, and spent nineteen years acting in films.
iO Tillett Wright | Speaker | TED.com