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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I had a revelation today, on the way to London to buy what I hope was a bargain and suspect was not. Anyway enough about my travel and shopping arrangements.
I was thinking about choices. Some of you may know I and a good friend got back in touch recently, and that he had known that i was gay way back in my teens. Until we discussed sexual orientation he had never really understood homosexuality. We talked about "choice" vs "nature", and he understood that, as a choice, being gay sucks, therefore he concedes that it has to be nature. He adds to that the interesting and useful thought that one cannot logically be pilloried for being natural and thus one of the many facets of normality.
Which brings me to my train ride revelation.
I believe that those who accuse us of "choosing to be gay" and who villify us for it have a different agenda. I am speaking as a gay man who has made a choice. My choice is to appear heterosexual.
I believe that those who accuse us of choosing gay as our "lifestyle" are actually those men who are gay, are terrified of it, and have chosen to be heterosexual. And, to defend themselves, they are homophobic, "getting their retaliation in first"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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