Are You Proud to be Gay?

I often read and hear "I am proud to be gay". I was okay at the beginning, it meant he accepted himself. But then my mind started questioning it. Why should he be proud?

According to Oxford Dictionary, these are the definition of proud:

1 feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one’s own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.

2 having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s importance.

Which one of proud in a "proud to be gay" is? Gay is not an achievement nor possesion. We don't earn gay, since we roar here and there that we were born this way. It is exactly not a quality. Then it should be number two, having a high or exessively high opinion of oneself. This is weird, well at least for me.

To be clear, a proud gay can be defined as someone who thinks that he is better than others, whom are clearly not gay. It is contradictive to what we claim to believe. We have been fighting for equality rights for years, and yet we think we are better than them, the "normal" people. And "better" here is not because we achieve something, not because we earn to be gay, it is just because we have high opinion of ourselves. Pathetic, ain't it? How can we assure them if we believe in equality if we think we are better than them?

Let's imagine a different world. Imagine that gay was "normal", where everyone in this earth was gay. Then we realized that there were some people that were straight, which was not "normal". What do you think would happen, if we were proud gays? There would be straightophobic. We would be like them, whom are homophobic. We would be no different to them. 

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be proud of ourselves. Be proud, but for the right reason, for something that you earn.

When K read this, he added that "proud to be gay" may be used to encourage them who is still in the closet, so they wouldn't feel inferior and destroy their own mind because they are gay. 

Well for me, it is still misplaced. We can tell them "it's okay to be gay" instead of "you should be proud you are gay". Again, I'm not saying that they shouldn't respect themselves, but the misplaced words could lead them to misplaced thought and behaviour as well.

But then, it is just my opinion. Have a great day fellas!