What would you like to tell the world about homosexuality?

Question

Let's face it ... we as gays have gotten a pretty bad reputation over the years, and that story about Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah really has done very little to improve our public image. About which misunderstood aspect of homosexuality would you like to enlighten the world?

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but the stupidity of the common fundamentalist has necessitated it:

Gays ARE misunderstood, whether you believe it or not. If you don't, just pick up your luggage and leave. You don't have to answer the bloody question.

Answer 1

It's normal.

We are ordinary people, with ordinary feelings and emotions.


BTW 1) the story of Sodom and Gomorrah has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality.

BTW 2) why do Christians never mention the subsequent drunken incest of Lot and his daughters? THAT is a much more worrying aspect of the story.

BTW 3) why do Christians always direct our attention to PAUL's Letter to the Romans, but never manage to get around to quoting the words of Jesus on the subject of homosexuality?
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Answer 2

I supppose I would say that all this nonsense about the end of civilization and the erosion of morality in society is just that - nonsense. The fact is, 60 years ago, homosexuality wasn't even discussed. It was kept under wraps, and for the most part was kept between men and women forced to marry by the stigma of being single in the 1950s. Families were destroyed, people were even arrested for indecency; taken out of their own bedrooms and humiliated in front of the entire neighborhood. Now, in 2007, people are free to stay single, not marry, and not cause the implosion of their own families with infidelity. What are the right-wing conspiracy theorists hoping to accomplish? The abolition of gays? Do you really think that could ever be a reality? The only thing they could ever possibly do is force people back in the closet, and wait for it to blow up in their faces again.

Answer 3

There is so much that I want to get people to realize that it's hard to pick just a single thing that I want to world to know. I guess the big one is that homosexuality is not about perversion; it's not about endless casual sex and no monogamous standards what-so-ever. Gay people have relationships just like Heterosexual people do, we get married (legal or not), have children, grandchildren, and sexuality has nothing to do with it.
I dislike it when people think that homosexuals are the only people who have casual sex; as though it is unheard of in the heterosexual community- or as though that is the single most important bias of being a homosexual.

Either that or I'd tell the Christians of the bigoted variety to get off their high horse and look at the world around them without the bible blocking their views.

Answer 4

I'd like to say it's a thing, just a neutral thing, not a good or bad one. It will always pop up, no matter what. Societies would be better off letting LGBT people find happiness in their own way than trying to repress it. Happy LGBT people who aren't threatened by the fear of punishment can accomplish a lot.

Answer 5

I am not gay, however i have family and dear friends who are.
Homosexuality is not a choice, it is not an illness, it is not curable, it does not need your judgment and if you don't like it turn your head because they have walked this earth as long as straight people.
Homosexuals do not molest children, that is usually straight men, they don't try to convert people, that is Christians, they are not sexual deviants, that is humanity, and they are not sinners!
Homosexuals are people no different than any other, they come in all shapes, sizes, colors, genders, religions and races.
The only people who have not come to realize these things are those who are ignorant, amoral, fearful people and I pity them.

Answer 6

That homosexuality isn't a choice, we are born homosexuals! We are not into bestiality, we do not rape little boys/girls - pedophiles, we do not want to sleep with EVERY man we see, we are not freaks of nature. We don't have a 'gay agenda', it irritates us when your only "rational" reason why we are bad is a Bible, that people have mistranslated for years to include people that they wanted to discriminate against. Check it out, woman are suppose to be covered and other such silly rules...

Love is love and we should be allowed to marry, start families, and have our 'happily ever afters!' :D

We are good people who are homosexual, it isn't the only thing that defines us, it's part of us, and we have a right to celebrate our diversity!

Answer 7

I have been in my relationship for 15 years. I think that the big surprise to my partner's family (who are farmers, and not terribly worldly) is how 'normal' we are. We eat and drink, pay bills, argue over the TV, need to drop 10 lbs, like coffee, and enjoy napping with the dogs while watching a match. In other words... there really isn't that much different except for how I like to screw, which is only my partner's business. I don't ask how my sister likes to take it, now do I?
The other thing I want to tell the world is to not dare underestimate my willingness to defend myself and my partner.

Answer 8

tigerhawkro: where the hell do you live where gays are not misunderstood? You sheltered? Gays are totally misunderstood, and simply the passage of time will put things in balance. While I don't want to say, wait it out, gay rights are still a recent movement in the U.S. Let's face it, Blacks, Women, Jews, Illegal Immigrants are all misunderstood, but surely and slowly, each has become more accepted in our melting pot.

Answer 9

I really wish the close-minded, uneducated haters (who obvioulsy don't know anyone LGBT) would actually read/learn facts and actually get to know us instead of believing in and repeating all the lame lies, assumptions and stereotypes!
like:
-all we think about is sex and that we're promiscuous
-that we "recruit"....that's a good one! you can't make people change who they innately are
-that all gay men are flaming queens and all lesbians are butch truck driver types
-that we're pedophiles (it's proven the vast majority are heterosexual men!)
-that only gays have AIDS/HIV, and that we ALL do? the vast majority of those infected has always been (and still is) heterosexuals!
-that if we are LGBT, we aren't/can't be Christian. I always have been, as are all my gay/lesbian friends. God created and loves us all!
-that all of us were either raped/molested or abused...and that's what "turned" us gay/lesbian.
-that we grew up around someone gay/lesbian and they somehow influenced us to become homosexual
-that gay men "hate" womena and lesbians "hate" men. no, we don't. I have lots of male friends...I just don't wish to sleep with them
-that we can't have children. yes, we CAN and DO. it may not be in the traditional way. all my gay/lesbian friends who have kids have biological ones (a couple of our friends are expecting their 2nd next week). and many of us adopt as well.
....all completely lame, untrue stereotypes. and I'm sure I could sit here and list a bunch more. absolutely none of these "reasons" are true in my case nor in the cases of 99.9% of my LGBT friends.

educate yourselves! the more you repeat all these lame "reasons," the more people see how ignorant you are!

Answer 10

There is a reason why people have a bad image of gay people:some of them are horny all the time and they are sex-addict.I'm in a town where there is a lot of gay people and 7 out of 10 just wanted to hook up with me.....