To what extent can Housefathers truly identify as heroes?

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Housefathers, fathers, non-conforming sexuality, harassment, gay community, homosexuals, house system, society, minorities, communities, conservatives, racism, social outcasts, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ideology, myths and heroes

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Non-conforming sexuality has long been a factor of violence and discrimination. Over the years, the gay community organized into ‘Houses': small, tight-knit safe spaces working as families, in which these people, long being harassed, could enjoy their sexuality and culture freely, without risk of harassment. In the past years, homosexuals went from being derided for their ‘effeminate' role to being celebrated for their courage in facing all the challenges of daily life. The house system, developed as an escape hatch from cruel society, transformed into an independent sub-community, with its own myths and heroes.

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[...] To what extent can Housefathers truly identify as heroes? Non-conforming sexuality has long been a factor of violence and discrimination. Over the years, the gay community organized into `Houses': small, tight-knit safe spaces working as families, in which these people, long being harassed, could enjoy their sexuality and culture freely, without risk of harassment. In the past years, homosexuals went from being derided for their `effeminate' role to being celebrated for their courage in facing all the challenges of daily life. [...]

[...] These outcasts, mixing ethnic minorities and sexual nonconformers created "Houses", giving these people families that they didn't have before who could care for and protect each other, giving a feeling of belonging somewhere to these people. These houses compete, and interact, with each other in balls influenced by hip-hop, giving way to the term "ball culture". It is a setting of freedom, happiness, and self-satisfaction whose aim is to provide a safe haven to any and all people discriminated by wider society with no discrimination of ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or ideology. For this reason, I believe the leaders of these Houses, called "fathers", are true modern heroes who care deeply about their "children". [...]

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