For all of history until recently it was never a surprise that gay communities suffered from prejudice. Many years ago I lived in one, New Hope, Pa. and it forced me to ask myself if I chose my sexual orientation and the answer of course was no. I was attracted to the opposite sex, women, from my earliest memories (or you could say, mammeries) and never chose to be, so it became easy for me to understand that I could just as easily have been attracted to the same sex through no choice of my own. So although I am somewhat viscerally homophobic (don’t like to see men kissing each other), I am fully accepting of gay people’s rights to be recognized as fully human. So if you are a full on homophobic person, perhaps you might ask yourself; “did I choose to be heterosexual or did it just happen that way”?
For all of history until recently it was never a surprise that gay communities suffered from prejudice. Many years ago I lived in one, New Hope, Pa. and it forced me to ask myself if I chose my sexual orientation and the answer of course was no. I was attracted to the opposite sex, women, from my earliest memories (or you could say, mammeries) and never chose to be, so it became easy for me to understand that I could just as easily have been attracted to the same sex through no choice of my own. So although I am somewhat viscerally homophobic (don’t like to see men kissing each other), I am fully accepting of gay people’s rights to be recognized as fully human. So if you are a full on homophobic person, perhaps you might ask yourself; “did I choose to be heterosexual or did it just happen that way”?