During the discussion of identity, I thought of a scene from the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" with Julia Roberts. While she is in Italy, she is eating dinner at a restaurant with a large table filled with all of her friends that she met along her journey. She is asked what her "word" is. Her friends are asking her the word for her identity. She answers with "daughter" and "wife" and "girlfriend" and then decides on "writer." One of her friends replies "that's what you do, it's not who you are." They decide that she is a woman in search of a word. She's in search of her identity.
This reminds me of the reading and what we were talking about in class today because the terms gay and lesbian may be a label, but that does not define who they are on the inside. A person can never really be labeled because they are always searching for who they really are and people are always striving to be something better.
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