How long will this fashion of being "GAY" last?

Question

Let us face it - only 50 years ago most people would keep on the straight and narrow by marraige. The 1960s saw all the drugs and hippy "free love" lifestyle come into Britain and in the 1970s men started to wear there hair like women. Some music bands encouraged young men to wear womens makeup.
I reckon the music bands like boy george and the other gender benders had a lot to do with making it fashionable to be gay. If a schoolboy said he was gay 30 years ago he would get a good seeing to and the teachers would set him right. These days it seems that the teachers encourage the kids to learn about these 'alternative lifestyles' . The parents dont put them right neither. So we have gays forcing their lifestyles on all of us who dont want to hear about it. I am not against people who are really queer. But my point is that about 80% of the 'Gay Population' could be put right.
How long will this current fashion last, I wonder..

Answer 1

The only acceptable form of "Gay" is that between two hot or attractive women. Ungly girls and men being gay is just plain wrong. However.. . if two women are cute, hot, or sexy. . . then them doing the licky licky is a beautiful thing. All others. . especially men. .. should just take a jar of vaseline and lock themselves in the closet.

Answer 2

Being gay or lesbian isn't a fashion. It is a sexual preference that comes from your DNA, chemical make up, and some it has to do with delimas in their childhoods. The youth in all generations has their own set of guidelines. The youth today are just expressing the freedoms that adults born in the 50's opened to them. Females have always been with females. Men opened that up centuries ago to feed their own sexual stimulation. Hello Roman and Greek orgies? It wasn't the hippies idea at all. We just explored it. Like i said it isn't a fashion nor is it a sin. It is life with so many devisitys in humans. Rules of man with women and women with men only is just a man made rule to guild our socity to reproduce. I think we have done that well. The Roman Catholic church helped gay men become gays by not allowing them to marrie. The only reason was the widowers and children would gain their worldly goods and money instead of the Vadican. The rule became in effect to the keep the weath of the Vadican growing. They are the richest orgainzation in the world now and goveren thier own. So don't think this is a fashion.... time don't go back... it proceeds forward. Sex is a human need for contract and comfert. YES .. great enjoyment also and produces good chemisty when a O is relased. Keep the O's coming in any way.. if it helps people not hurt others for their inharited human needs to be gained. Would rather that then more unhappy people in this world. Live and Let live as long as you respect other peoples feelings.

Answer 3

Let's you face it, gay isn't a fad, it isn't a lifestyle choice and it isn't a sin. Let's go back 50 years; we gay people were there but wouldn't dare show ourselves because we'd be persecuted to death; sometimes literally, as in Alan Turning, the man whose work made computers and the internet possible. I'm in my 60's and I can remember more than one girl I was at university with being institutionalized merely because she "had the delusion she was a lesbian" If you think marriage would keep a gay person on thestraight and narrow; you have a lot to learn about life and marriage. Final question; how exactly do we force our lifestyle on you? Has someone accosted you on the street and demanded you wear leather underwear?Have you been forcibly dragged out to a Bette Midler concert. Are you required to hum "It's Raining Men" or do the YMCA song? I didn't think so. However, every time a boy kisses a girl in public they're flaunting the straight lifestyle, If that couple announces their engagement, they're flaunting the straigfht lifestyle; ditto when they marry. You don't like us leave us alone and we'll be happy to reciprocate

Answer 4

Its not a fashion, or even a lifestyle, its a life.

To use your analogy of 50 yrs ago, there were lots of clubs secreted around that gay people went to, but had to hide it because of the attitude of people like you that there was something wrong with it. There were lots of married men, and women, who's inclinations ran otherwhere but married because it was the 'done thing' and divorces weren't easy.

Then it started to become more open.
Yes, some groups played up to it to get publicity, but most people just saw it as an expanding of consciousness.

Boy George wasn't a band, Culture Club were.

Yes, it was for a while fashionable to appear to claim to be gay even if you weren't.

I was a scholboy 30 yrs ago, you were called a puff as an insult even if it wasn't sexually meant, and nobody in their right mind would admit it at school (although a lot of same sex play went on out of it.)

"Put Right"? How do you propose to do that? Line all the queers up in front of a naked woman and let them see what 'real' sex is about?

I wonder how you'd feel if I suggested that to put you right you were forced to spend the night with Bill the bender?

Grow up.
Live and let live.

Answer 5

Fashion? Put right? Are you really that stupid? What do you think I became gay cause all the cool kids were doing it? It's not like I chose this lifestyle pal. Life would be a lot easier if I were straight. But you are who you are. I'm sure there is a small percentage of us that are just tag-alongs or followers. But for the majority of us, this is our life. In fashion or not. And just What do you feel is so fashionable? Being singled out? Being ridiculed and discriminated against? My god !! If sexuality really was a choice, nobody would choose this!!!! Being gay is hard. You have tons of obstacles to overcome!!! You have limited legal rights. You can be disowned by your own family! Fashion!!!! You obviously just don't get it man!!!

Answer 6

It isn't a "fashion", dear, and if it were, it will outlast YOU, I imagine. Nice that you're still living in a world that's changed fifty years on. I'd say you need to come into the 21st Century with the rest of us, but we're doing quite nicely without your kind mucking things up, thank you very much.

And BTW - if a schoolboy back from your "era" fancied a girl not of his own race, I wonder if that would've merited a "seeing to" as well? Have I got your attention AND your number?

Say it again, kids: scratch a homophobe, find a racist.

Answer 7

I understand the question.And at the risk of being called an ignorant bigot,I'm going to half way agree.
Gays don't "push" there lifestyles on straights,I think it just becomes appealing and curious to those who don't know it.Like when "Queer Eye" first came "out" in like 2003/04,metrosexuality became a huge staple of American culture (with heterosexuals).I am sure it has since passed,but has now been picked up:bisexuality.Every girl between 13-30 will have bisexual feelings,and maybe only claim to be bi so they will fit in with those who are.It's a fad.
Gay isnt always in,because we still have gay bashing to we not?

Answer 8

lol....that is one of the most mis-informed posts I've ever read. Totaly baseless (80% of gays could be made straight".....LOL!)

this guys is either a troll just looking to get a rise or his is AMAZINGLY ignorant on this issue.

But, I'll play along and answer his question....how long will it be "fashionable"? Oh, prolly thu the winter, and then when the new spring catologs come out the spring fashions will take over.

IDIOT.

Answer 9

Hmm i don't think it is in fashion to be descriminated against, experience hate crime, not being allowed to marry your partner etc. You really should get your facts straight.

And most of those bands encourage guys to be metrosexual not gay... you are either gay or you aren't, no music or band can make you gay :S

Answer 10

If it were a fashion, I would not visit hospitals on a regular basis when teens are beaten and attacked for simply loving someone of the same sex. If it were a fashion, I would not spend 80% of my time with people who are going through those same urges.

Answer 11

Do you seriously believe that being married keeps people "on the straight and narrow"?
Oscar Wilde was married and famously imprisoned for being gay. When gay sex awas till illegal in the UK, there were hundreds of married men convicted and sent to prison (oddly enough locking them away in an all-male environment with similar “offenders” didn’t seem to strike anyone as being somewhat contradictory).
I think you’ll find there is plenty of evidence that people had sex outside of marriage and committed adultery prior to the 1960's. It’s not “new”.
As for being gay being a "fashionable", there are enough stories of anti-gay bullying to belie that statement.
Finally, I have a question for you, in response to yours: If you don't want to hear about "queer" lifestyles, why are posting/reading a group that is clearly labelled "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered"? If you want to steer clear of "alternative" or "queer" stuff, there is a bit of a clue in the title.