I am Onir, I am Gay

In this book, filmmaker Onir talks about his journey in media along with his experiences of being a homosexual. In most biographies of people on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, their sexual identity and the world’s response to them tends to take center stage. In contrast, Onir makes it amply clear that he is much more than his sexuality. This makes the book basically his biography. This makes one wonder how the title of the book can be misleading. The title focuses on his being gay, and most people would probably pick it up because of the same, and the films he has made around the subject. By making it amply clear that his identity need not be reduced to his being gay, he is making a strong statement. This is a call to the world at large to understand that people on the spectrum need not be looked at as anything other than people. Their sexualities do not make them anything away from the ordinary, it I’d people’s responses to them that create the sense of being on the margins. 

He is Onir first,  and has a story to his life that is much more than his gayness.