Facts vs Myths about Homosexuality

I had crushes on other male friends as far back as 2nd grade. Didn't associate those feelings with sex until I hit puberty and the hormones kicked in. Even then, it took a while to understand my same-sex attraction, because I had been taught growing up that homosexuality and its 'practitioners' were the worst sort of evil. I was a 'good boy' who attended church regularly (in fact, I as an acolyte), did my homework, didn't backtalk, didn't lie, didn't experiment with drugs or alcohol, etc. etc. etc. So how could I be this evil thing? My thoughts did not seem evil; couldn't understand how love could be evil. Still, I regularly repented my impure thoughts, tried to avoid even looking at other boys so that I would not be tempted, and tried to make myself take an interest in girls, but trying to force yourself to be attracted to what you are not just does not work. All I succeeded in doing was making myself a miserable, nervous wreck, afraid that everyone else could somehow see the 'evil' in me even if I couldn't recognize what exactly was evil about it. Eventually I came to the realization that it wasn't going away, and over quite a long period of time began to reject the shaming directed toward my orientation that I had been indoctrinated with by my parents, peers and church. Gradually I came to accept myself for how I was, not who other people were wanting me to be (straight) or were telling me I was doomed to become as a person of same-sex orientation.

It has taken a long time to get to a place where I simply won't tolerate being treated as something less than a full member of the human race, due the same basic respect and equality we all deserve. Anyone who tries to shove me back into the hellish prison I was in when I was struggling to understand my sexuality, to learn who I really was instead of believing everyone else' lies...those people will not be given any ownership of my being.

 

What it the "truth" about homosexuality? Homosexuality just IS.

 

It's just another misinterpretation......

Hetero means "different" and homo means "same"

In my mind there is no practical, or more accuratly, outward difference between straight and gay.

I think sexuality is more easilly understood when one thinks of another's sexuality as lying somewhere on two spectrums between profoundly masculine and profoundly feminine, or profoundly gay, and profoundly straight.

I can't imagine a future in which we don't uncover all of the biological bases of human sexuality...

 

I think what I'm trying to get at is that homosexuality assumes a sexual relationship between people of the same sex. There may be varying reasons for homosexuality, and there are varying levels of acceptance, but those reasons and levels do not change the basic definition. After that, and as far as I can tell, there are only opinions.

 

I can't understand homosexuality but I am a charter member of the Whatever Floats Your Boat Society.

 

Like you come here to talk about MO's clothes?

 

LOL.

But...but....Michelle Obama is a political figure....she's a senator..no....she's a representative...no....she's a governor...no....she's a member of his cabinet..no.....well...she's married to a politician...yes! Yes, I have made the connection, and therefore, she is fair game for whatever jaded and warped fabrications I can come up with at any given moment!

Other politician's wives? What? Ann Romney? How dare you! Sarah Palin? How dare you! Michelle Bachman? How dare you! And those last two are actually politicians, not just attached to one by marriage!

But yeah, the hypocrisy is strong with this one....