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Even though my friends Eric and Jiang complain about it from time to time... more in a joking kind of manner... they fully embrace their quirkiness and I admire them for that.

On social media, I often read in the comments of people saying "What do you know about being a gay man of ethnic background? You live in France, and you have all the privileges and you have a perfect life bla bla bla..." OK, first, nobody has a perfect life, not even Donald J Trump. Second, everything I own today, I worked hard for it, and I'm not gonna apologize for having some degree of happiness in my life right now. I understand why you are pissed at me, cause your life must be hard at the moment. Everything makes you angry and misery loves company. But happy and confident people almost never leave negative comments. I actually feel sorry for those who keep leaving negative comments on my daily life comics, cause I know they are in a bad place.

More than once, I have younger guys come to me and asked me advice for coming out of the closet. One thing I always tell them first, with all the sincerity, is that one should get his financial independence first. I've been through poverty and depression, and these two are best friends coming hand in hand. I know how that fucked up your mind. I still witness every day what depression and poverty can do to people I care about. For example, Nico is a good looking caucasian man, and he's supposed to have all the privileges of the french society, but he's not living a better life than my Asian friend Jiang, who left his country and worked very hard to build a life here.

Sorry, I got carried away. Back to the comment, I wanna say I do know a little bit about being a gay man of an ethnic minority, cause I try to listen, and I try to understand. After all, being gay makes us all an outcast/minority of this society, right? Why criticizing anyone who's different in this small community?