TEDxWomen 2012
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
欧伊·蒂利特·莱特：“对半开”的同性恋
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欧伊·蒂利特·莱特为2000个自认为有同性恋倾向的人拍摄了肖像并要求他们为自己同性恋（异性恋）的倾向程度按百分制打分。结果她发现，绝大多数人都认为自己不是百分百的同性恋或异性恋，而是介于两者之间。这给歧视同性恋歧视的人出了一个现实难题：到底要歧视谁？你又如何定义？（录制于 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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人们在看到别人的那一刻起
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the second that they see each other --
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就把对方装进了不同的盒子——
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Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?
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他（她）危险么？有吸引力么？
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Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?
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有可能交往么？有扩充人脉的可能么？
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We do this little interrogation when we meet people
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我们在遇见他人的时候都会这样
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to make a mental resume for them.
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在脑海中为他（她）建立一个档案。
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What's your name? Where are you from?
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你叫什么名字？来自哪里？
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How old are you? What do you do?
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多大了？做什么的？
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Then we get more personal with it.
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然后是更私人的问题。
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Have you ever had any diseases?
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得过什么病么？
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Have you ever been divorced?
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离过婚么？
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Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?
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跟我说话的时候有口臭么？
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What are you into? Who are you into?
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你喜欢什么？你喜欢什么人？
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What gender do you like to sleep with?
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你喜欢同性还是异性？
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I get it.
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我明白了。
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We are neurologically hardwired
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我们的神经系统就已经决定了
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to seek out people like ourselves.
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我们会寻找跟我们自身相似的人。
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We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough
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从我们刚知道被人认可的感觉时
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to know what acceptance feels like.
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就开始建立自己的小团体。
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We bond together based on anything that we can --
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任何可能的特征都可以把我们联系起来——
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music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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音乐喜好、种族、性别、成长的地方。
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We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.
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我们在寻找那种强化我们个人选择的环境。
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Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"
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虽然，仅仅是“你是做什么的”这个问题
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can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box
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就让你觉得别人打开了一个小盒子
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and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.
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要求你把自己塞进去。
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Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.
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因为这种放进盒子中的分类，太局限了，
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The boxes are too narrow.
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盒子太狭隘了，
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And this can get really dangerous.
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因此这真的很危险。
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So here's a disclaimer about me, though,
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所以现在在我们更深入的讨论之前，
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before we get too deep into this.
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我要说说我自己。
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I grew up in a very sheltered environment.
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我在一个受庇护的环境中长大。
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I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,
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我一九八零年代生长在曼哈顿市区，
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two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.
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距离朋克音乐中心只有两个街区的距离。
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I was shielded from the pains of bigotry
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我没有感受到偏见
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and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
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以及在虔诚宗教环境下成长带来的社会约束，所带来的痛苦。
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker
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我长大的地方，如果你不是伪娘、激进分子、
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or a performance artist of some kind,
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或某种行为艺术家，
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you were the weirdo.
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你就是个怪胎。
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(Laughter)
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（观众笑）
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It was an unorthodox upbringing,
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我的成长过程有点叛逆、非传统类型的，
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but as a kid on the streets of New York,
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但是作为纽约街头的小孩，
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you learn how to trust your own instincts,
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你要学会相信自己的直觉，
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you learn how to go with your own ideas.
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跟随自己的想法。
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So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.
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在我六岁的时候，我决定要做一个小伙子。
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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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有一天我在学校想打篮球但是别的孩子不跟我玩。
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They said they wouldn't let girls play.
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他们说不跟女孩子玩。
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So I went home, and I shaved my head,
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于是我回到家，剪掉了头发，
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and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."
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第二天回到那里对他们说，“我是男孩”。
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I mean, who knows, right?
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我是说，谁看得出来呢，对吧？
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When you're six, maybe you can do that.
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当你六岁的时候你也能这么做。
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I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
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我不希望任何人知道我是女孩，我也做到了。
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I kept up the charade for eight years.
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我这么伪装了8年。
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So this is me when I was 11.
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这张照片是我11岁时候照的。
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I was playing a kid named Walter
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我在电影《Julian Po》中
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in a movie called "Julian Po."
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扮演一个叫沃特的小孩。
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I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.
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他是个街头小混混，成天跟在克里斯琴·斯内特左右，缠着他。
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See, I was also a child actor,
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瞧，我是一个童星，
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which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,
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但是实际上我在两个层面上掩饰了我的身份，
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because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
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因为没有人知道我在女扮男装。
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In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --
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事实上没有人知道我是女孩——
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not my teachers at school, not my friends,
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学校的老师、我朋友和
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not the directors that I worked with.
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跟我一起拍戏的导演都不知道。
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Kids would often come up to me in class
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在教室里小伙伴们时常会
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and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple
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掐着我的脖子看有没有喉结，
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or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.
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或抓我的档部看看我是男是女。
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When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls
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当我上厕所的时候我把鞋子反过来穿着，
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so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.
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这样看起来像是在站着小便。
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks
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在外过夜的时候，我时常纠结于
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trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me
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如何在不暴露自己的前提下把这个事件
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without outing myself.
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告诉那些不想亲吻我的女孩。
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It's worth mentioning though
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我需要澄清一下
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that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.
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我不讨厌我的身体或性别。
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I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.
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我没觉得我投错了胎。
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I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.
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我只是觉得这是一场精心的演出。
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I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.
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我不会真的去变性
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If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,
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我的家人他们或许会认为我的性别趋向畸形，
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they probably would have diagnosed me
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或许给我注射激素
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as something like gender dysmorphic
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以避免“青春期的困扰”。
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and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.
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但是我并没有被归为变性者。
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But in my particular case,
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在我这个特殊的案例中，
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I just woke up one day when I was 14,
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我在14岁的时候突然的觉醒了，
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and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.
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决定重新做回姑娘。
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Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,
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青春期的困扰来了，我不知道这个决定意味着什么，
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and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
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但是我想找到真正的自我。
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When a kid behaves like I did,
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像我这样（女扮男装）的孩子，
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they don't exactly have to come out, right?
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其实用不着宣布出柜的，对吧
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No one is exactly shocked.
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没有人觉得意外。
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(Laughter)
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（观众笑）
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But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
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但是我的父母并没有要求我给自己归类。
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When I was 15, and I called my father
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在我15岁的时候，我给爸爸打电话
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to tell him that I had fallen in love,
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告诉他我恋爱了
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it was the last thing on either of our minds
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这是我们最后一次
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to discuss what the consequences were
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讨论喜欢上一个女孩子
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of the fact that my first love was a girl.
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可能带来的后果。
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Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,
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三年后当我爱上一个男人时，
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neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
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我的父母眼皮都没眨一下。
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See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood
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瞧，在我离经叛道的童年经历中最大的幸运，
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that I wasn't ever asked to define myself
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就是我从来没有被要求把自己
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as any one thing at any point.
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归为某个确定的类别。
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I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.
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我能够自由的做自己，成长，并随时改变自己。
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So four, almost five years ago,
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所以大概四五年前，
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Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,
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关于同性恋婚姻合法化第八号提案
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was raising a lot of dust around this country.
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在美国引起了巨大的关注。
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And at the time, getting married wasn't really something
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那个时候我还没有花太多时间
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I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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考虑结婚的问题。
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But I was struck by the fact that America,
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但是让我震惊的是，
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a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,
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有着那样不堪的人权历史的美国，
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could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
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竟然又一次公然的重复自己的错误。
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And I remember watching the discussion on television
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我还记得在电视上看到人们的辩论时，
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and thinking how interesting it was
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觉得多么的好玩：
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that the separation of church and state
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宗教之间和州之间的差异
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was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,
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使得国家被划出一条地理上的界限，
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between places where people believed in it
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这边的人们持赞成观点，
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and places where people didn't.
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那边的人持反对态度。
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And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
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然后我发现这些讨论使得我也需要进行站队。
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If this was a war with two disparate sides,
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如果这是两方相互对立的战争，
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I, by default, fell on team gay,
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我应该归为同性恋这一边，
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because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
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因为我显然不是百分之百“直”的（异性恋）。
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At the time I was just beginning to emerge
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那个时候我刚刚跌跌撞撞的
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from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag
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从八年的自我认同危机中走出来，
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that saw me go from being a boy
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从一个男孩，
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to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes
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从一个穿着女孩子衣服但是像男孩子的女孩子，
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to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,
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到一个超级性感、过度补偿的、超有女人味的
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over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl
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男孩子梦寐以求的女孩子，
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to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,
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到现在最终发现了真实的自己，一个
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a tomboyish girl
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男孩子气的女孩，
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who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
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喜欢某些男孩也喜欢某些女孩。
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I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,
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我曾花了一年的时间拍摄像我一样的新一代的女性，
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who fell kind of between-the-lines --
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觉得自己处在两个极端之间的女孩子——
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girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,
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穿着蕾丝内衣玩滑板的女孩，
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girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,
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剪男士短发但是涂指甲的女孩，
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girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,
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涂跟膝盖瘀伤颜色一致的眼影的女孩，
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girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls
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喜欢女孩也喜欢男孩的女孩，
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who all hated being boxed in to anything.
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讨厌被放进任何盒子里的女孩。
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I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,
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我爱她们，我赞赏她们的自由，
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but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble
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但是我看到在我们的乌托邦之外的世界，
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exploded into these raging debates
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愤怒的辩论在这个国家的电视台上演，
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where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
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专家们开始把我们的爱比喻成禽兽不如的行径。
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And this powerful awareness rolled in over me
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这让我强烈的感觉到，
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that I was a minority, and in my own home country,
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在我自己的国家，我被视作一个异类了，
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based on one facet of my character.
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仅仅因为我性格中某一方面的特点。
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I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.
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我是毫无疑问的、法律规定的二等公民。
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I was not an activist.
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我不是行动主义者。
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I wave no flags in my own life.
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我从来没有参加过游行示威。
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But I was plagued by this question:
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但是却被这个问题困扰：
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How could anyone vote to strip the rights
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为什么人可以仅仅根据别人性格中
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of the vast variety of people that I knew
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某一个特征就将我知道的那么多
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based on one element of their character?
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行色各异的人的权利剥夺？
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How could they say that we as a group
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他们怎么能说我们都是不配享受
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were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?
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与他们同动公民权利的另一类人？
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Were we even a group? What group?
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我们是一类人么？哪一类？
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And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?
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这些（投赞成票的）人有了解过他们歧视的受害者么？
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Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
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他们知道他们在投票反对什么，会带来什么影响么？
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And then it occurred to me,
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然后我想到，
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perhaps if they could look into the eyes
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如果他们能够有机会
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of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship
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凝视一次他们认为是二等公民的人的眼睛，
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it might make it harder for them to do.
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他们或许会更难投出这一票。
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It might give them pause.
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或许会让他们想一下。
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Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,
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很显然我不能开一个两千万人的派对，
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so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically
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而我能想到的方法是通过照片让他们相互认识
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without any artifice, without any lighting,
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我不会对照片做任何处理，
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or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
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不做灯光特效，不做改动，什么都不做。
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Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers
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因为照片的好处在于你可以在审视狮子的胡须的同时，
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without the fear of him ripping your face off.
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不用担心它会扑过来撕下你的脸。
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film,
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对我而言，摄影不仅仅是曝光胶卷那么简单，
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it's about exposing the viewer
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它让观看者看到新的东西，
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to something new, a place they haven't gone before,
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体验从未有过的感觉，
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but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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最重要的，让人们审视他们可能害怕的东西。
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Life magazine introduced generations of people
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《生活》杂志曾通过图片向一代人介绍了
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to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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他们从未接触的遥远的、与众不同的文化。
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So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,
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所以我决定制作一系列简单的肖像照，
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mugshots if you will.
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或者叫大头照。
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And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country
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简单来说我拍摄这个城市不是百分之百“直”的人，
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that was not 100 percent straight,
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这样的人，
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which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
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如果你没有意识到，数量多少数不清。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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So this was a very large undertaking,
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所以这是一个非常大的工作量，
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and to do it we needed some help.
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我需要一些帮助来做这个。
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So I ran out in the freezing cold,
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所以在两年前的二月，
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and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to
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我冲破刺骨的寒冷，拍摄了我能找到的
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in February of about two years ago.
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每一个这样的人。
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And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.
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我拍了这些照片，我去找HRC希望能得到帮助。
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And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.
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他们提供了赞助，（我们）在纽约进行了两周的摄影。
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And then we made this.
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这是我们的成果。
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(Music)
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（音乐）
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Video: I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.
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我是欧伊·蒂利特·莱特，纽约土生土长的艺术家。
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(Music)
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（音乐）
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Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.
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“不证自明的真理”是今天美国同性恋群体的摄影记录。
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My aim is to take a simple portrait
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我的目标是为在任何方面
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of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight
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觉得自己不是百分之百“直”的人
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or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
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拍摄一幅简单的肖像。
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My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us
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我的目标是通过一张张质朴的脸向大家阐释
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through the simplicity of a face.
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人性存在于每个人身上。
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(Music)
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（音乐）
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
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“我们认为人人生而平等这样的真理是不证自明的。”
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It's written in the Declaration of Independence.
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它被写在独立宣言中。
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We are failing as a nation
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我们正在丧失掉
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to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
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我们建国时候所坚持的信念。
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There is no equality in the United States.
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这样的美国没有平等可言。
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["What does equality mean to you?"]
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“平等对你意味着什么？”
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["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]
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“婚姻”、“自由”、
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["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]
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“公民权利”、“待人如己”
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It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
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不用去想，它本该如此。
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The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
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争取平等的斗争不仅仅是为了同性婚姻。
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Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,
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今天，美国的29个州，超过美国州总数一半，
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you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.
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你可能因为性取向而被合法的炒掉。
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["Who is responsible for equality?"]
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“谁有义务捍卫平等？”
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I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:
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我听到很多人给出了同样的答案：
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"We are all responsible for equality."
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“我们都有义务保证平等”
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So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.
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目前我们在纽约拍摄了三百张人像。
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And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it
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没有人权组织阵营的大力支持
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without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.
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我们无法做到这一点。
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I want to take the project across the country.
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我希望在整个国家开展该项活动。
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I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
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我希望游历25个美国城市，拍摄4000到5000个人。
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This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
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这是我为我这一代人的公民权利斗争做出的努力。
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I challenge you to look into the faces of these people
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我要求你看着这些肖像的眼睛
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and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.
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对他们说他们不配享有跟你一样的权利。
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(Music)
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（音乐）
10:44
["Self evident truths"]
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“不证自明的真理”
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["4,000 faces across America"]
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“全美国的四千张肖像”
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(Music)
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（音乐）
10:53
(Applause)
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（鼓掌）
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iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.
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我们当时绝对想不到这之后发生的事情。
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Almost 85,000 people watched that video,
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大概85000人观看了视频后
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and then they started emailing us from all over the country,
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给我们发电子邮件，要我们去他们的小镇拍摄，
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asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.
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帮助他们出镜。
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And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.
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想要参与的人数远远超过的了预计。
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So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.
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所以我立刻把目标提高到了一万张肖像。
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That video was made in the spring of 2011,
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视频制作自2011年的春天，
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and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities
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而今年我已经在将近20个城市
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and photographed almost 2,000 people.
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拍摄了将近2000个人的大头照。
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I know that this is a talk,
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我知道现在是演讲，
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but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet
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但是我希望能留出一分钟时间什么都不说，
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and have you just look at these faces
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只是看着他们的脸，
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because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
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因为我想不出需要补充什么。
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Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,
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因为一图胜千言，
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then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
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没有一个词汇可以诠释一副面孔。
12:12
So after traveling and talking to people
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在我游历俄克拉何马州和得克萨斯州（译者注：都是保守州）
12:16
in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,
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并与那里小镇上的人交谈之后，
12:20
we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
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我们发现有迹象显示之前的提案已经死了。
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Visibility really is key.
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相互了解是关键。
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Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.
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熟悉程度是引发同情的重要因素。
12:29
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,
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当一个问题出现在你家后院或你自己的家庭中，
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you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it
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你有大得多的可能性去同情，
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or explore a new perspective on it.
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或接受一个新的观点。
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Of course, in my travels I met people
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当然，在我的旅行中我遇见了
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who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,
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跟同性恋子女断绝法律关系的父母，
12:43
but I also met people who were Southern Baptists
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但是我也看到了这样的父母，当他们知道
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who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
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他们的孩子是同性恋时，他们从美南浸信会改信了基督教。
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Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.
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同理心的触动是“不证自明的真理”的基石。
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But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:
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但是接下来我发现了真正有趣的事情：
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Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.
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“不证自明的真理”并没有消除我们之间的差异。
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In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
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相反的，差异被突出了。
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It presents, not just the complexities
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这体现出这件事情的复杂性，
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found in a procession of different human beings,
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不仅体现在不同的人群之间，
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but the complexities found within each individual person.
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也体现在每个独立的个人之间。
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It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.
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我们的盒子不是太多，而是太少。
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At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,
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在某刻我意识到我拍摄“同性恋者”的计划一开始就有瑕疵，
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because there were a million different shades of gay.
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“同性恋者”这个词可以分成上百万种不同的分类。
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Here I was trying to help,
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我希望能够做点什么，
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and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --
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而我接下来做的事情是我毕生想要去避免的——
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yet another box.
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创造新的盒子。
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At some point I added a question to the release form
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从某刻开始我在自己的问卷中添加了一个问题，
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that asked people to quantify themselves
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要求填写者评估自己“同性恋”的程度，
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on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
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从零分到一百分给自己打分。
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And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.
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然后我就目睹了无数的存在危机在我面前上演。
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(Laughter)
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（观众笑）
13:56
People didn't know what to do
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人们从来没有
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because they had never been presented with the option before.
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被问过这个问题，也不知道怎么回答。
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Can you quantify your openness?
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你能量化自己的开放性（Openness）么？
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Once they got over the shock, though,
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当他们缓过神来之后，
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by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent
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多人给自己的分数在70到95分
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or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
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和3到20分之间。
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Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,
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当然也有人认为自己是百分百的异性恋或同性恋，
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but I found that a much larger proportion of people
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但是我发现非常大比例的人
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identified as something that was much more nuanced.
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自我定位都是比较微妙的。
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I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."
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我发现大多数人在这个色谱上都落在“灰色”的位置。
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Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --
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我要明确一点——非常明确的一点——
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in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.
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我从未否认过偏好(preference)的存在。
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And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,
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我也没有打算去讨论这个问题是先天基因还是后天选择决定的，
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because if any of you happen to be of the belief
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但是如果你们当中有人相信
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that sexual orientation is a choice,
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性取向是后天选择的，
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I invite you to go out and try to be grey.
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我邀请你站出来承认自己是“灰”的。
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I'll take your picture just for trying.
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我想给你拍张大头照。
14:47
(Laughter)
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（观众笑）
14:48
What I am saying though is that human beings are not one-dimensional.
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我想说，人类不是单一维度就可以区分的。
14:52
The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:
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百分制评价标准最重要的一点是，
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If you have gay people over here
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如果这边是完全的同性恋，
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and you have straight people over here,
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另一边是完全的异性恋，
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and while we recognize that most people identify
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当大多数人将自己定位成靠近异性恋
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as somewhere closer to one binary or another,
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或靠近同性恋这一极端的位置时，
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there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.
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有相当多的人落在了这个色谱的中间位置。
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And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.
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而事实上，这里展示的是一个很复杂的问题。
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Because, for example, if you pass a law
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因为，比如，你们通过一项法律
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that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,
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允许老板开除有同性恋行为的员工，
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where exactly do you draw the line?
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那么这条线应该画在（色谱的）哪里？
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Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?
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是画在这里，有过一到两次异性恋经历的人这头？
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Or is it over here
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还是画在那里，
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by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?
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只有过一到两次同性恋经历的人那头？
15:37
Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?
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究竟是什么原因使得一个人变成了二等公民？
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Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels
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我的项目和我的游历经历让我学到的另一个有趣的事情
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is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.
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是性取向对于人们的同化作用微乎其微。
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After traveling so much and meeting so many people,
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在游历了这么多地方、跟那么多人见面之后，
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let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts
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我告诉你，同性恋团体中也有笨蛋、好人、
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and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens
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民主党支持者、共和党支持者、土鳖、女神，
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and every other polarization you can possibly think of
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你能在人类群体中发现的
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within the LGBT community
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所有的观点差异
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as there are within the human race.
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在同性恋团体中都存在。
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Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,
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是的，我们一起反抗意图束缚我们权利的法律，
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and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,
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但是当你撇开我们被歧视和一起抗争的共同经历，
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just being other than straight
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“同性恋”这个身份，
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doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.
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并不表示我们之间有什么共同点。
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So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,
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所以随着“不证自明的真理”活动的开展，无穷无尽的人脸照片被新加进来，
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as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,
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它可能出现在更多的平台，
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bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,
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公交候车亭，广告牌，Facebook页面、屏幕保护程序中。
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perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,
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或许随着人性的发展，
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something interesting and useful will begin to happen.
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一些有趣和有用的事情将会发生。
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Hopefully these categories, these binaries,
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这些分类、二分法、
16:50
these over-simplified boxes
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过度简化的盒子，
16:52
will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.
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或许有希望变得没有用处并开始消失。
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Because really, they describe nothing that we see
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因为这些标准无法描述我们的所看、所知，
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and no one that we know and nothing that we are.
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也无法描述我们是什么。
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What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.
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我们看到的是人类的多样性。
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And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.
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而亲眼看到他们使得人们很难否认他们的人性。
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At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
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最低程度我希望这些面孔让人更难否定他们的人权。
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So is it me particularly
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所以，我是否就是
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that you would choose to deny the right to housing,
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你所针对的那种人，
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the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,
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拒绝承认我有居住的权利、抚养孩子的权利、
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the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?
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结婚的权利、开店、生活、购物的自由？
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Am I the one that you choose to disown
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我是否就是你决定要脱离关系的人
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as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,
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你的子女、你的兄弟姐妹、你的父母、
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your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,
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你的邻居，你的堂兄，你的舅舅，美国总统，
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your police woman or the fireman?
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你（社区中）的女警或消防员？
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It's too late.
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太迟了。
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Because I already am all of those things.
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因为我已经是你生活的一部分了。
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We already are all of those things, and we always have been.
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我们已经是相互生活的一部分，我们也将继续如此。
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So please don't greet us as strangers,
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所以请不要视我们为陌生人，
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greet us as your fellow human beings, period.
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视我们为跟你一样的人。句号。
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Thank you.
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谢谢。
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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