First it was Elton John, then it was Melissa Etheridge, then Cheney's daughter, then Lance Bass, then Foley, and now Ted Haggard! Honestly, we didn't have this many gays a hundred years ago. I don't think it's what you would consider to be innate. It's becoming more of a trend isn't it?
2006-11-13 17:00:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
It's weird but it seems since homosexuality has become more "socially acceptable", more people coincidently keep coming "out of the closet".
This leads me to believe, that maybe because society is accepting it, people just think it is Okay to be gay, whether they are or not.
2006-11-13 17:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by pixles 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Education time. Being gay is an innate sexual orientation, not a fad. The reason you hear more about it is because gays are more open about their sexuality than they once were. The reasons are obvious. Check out the answers on this site which use all meanings used for homosexuality as attack words or put downs of normal people. Also note the bigotry of many toward gay people..
You may want to check out "The Kinsey Report". published in the early 1950s concerning the 1 in 6 men who had homosexual experiences sometime in their lives., Extremely few came out of the closet back then, because of the stigma attached & laws against homosexual activity.
2006-11-14 01:16:08 · answer #2 · answered by bob h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I would say so. It seems to have exploded in the past 5 years and the idea of a straight man with gay tastes (metrosexual) has become acceptable. So acceptable that a rapper such as Kanye West or Diddy can pretty much act like a white/blond popular high school girl and be really into fashion and demand their girls to look like supermodels!:( But anyway, that is why we come up with new words, like bicurious, because girls have taken their experimentations from behind closed doors to the streets.
P.S. I used the rappers as an example because rap is traditionally a very rough, masculine, machonist, and of all else homophobic, race oriented musical genre/lifestyle(ghetto/inner city).
2006-11-14 01:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"First it was Elton John, then it was Melissa Etheridge, then Cheney's daughter, then Lance Bass, then Foley, and now Ted Haggard!"
Why is your avatar winking like that?
2006-11-14 01:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'd just say because it's more accepted now. I don't think a straight guy would take it up the butt and a girl would go down on a girl just to look cool. The closest to anything I've seen are straight girls saying they're bi because guys think it's hot. Most of those girls haven't even touched another girl, let alone anything more intimate.
Some might do it for attention though, who knows. There are a lot of attention whores out there. Usually they go into porn, though.
2006-11-14 01:04:57 · answer #5 · answered by Byte-Sized Cookie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, no trend. The gay people are more comfortable to jump out of the closet now , that's all.
2006-11-14 01:09:13 · answer #6 · answered by Zoey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes just like kabballah! But us heteros will have our day again!
2006-11-14 01:04:09 · answer #7 · answered by JoeJOE 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure seems like it... i guess ppl just feel comfortable abt coming out now-a-days
2006-11-14 01:05:52 · answer #8 · answered by blaire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isnt that they werent around, its that its more accepted now, so they feel comfortable comming out.
2006-11-14 01:05:10 · answer #9 · answered by Elaine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it's a flamers world
2006-11-14 10:30:12 · answer #10 · answered by Cortney N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋