OOOpps!!!

A recent turn of events of great magnitude has torn through the very fabric of the space/time continuum. Oldsport found my not so family oriented DeviantArt account. This lead to a journal entry on the D.A. account and it has opened an entire discussion on normative social constructs in society today.
You can view the journal posting at http://matrick001.deviantart.com/journal/24961151/#comments.

Me and my pal on D.A., XandarX2, have been duking it out on my journal comments page on the topic of closet cases. It starts off like this:

XandarX2 wrote:
No matter where you are on the world wide web, you are bound to be found out by friends or family. In some cases part of who you want to be, shows up on the internet, and then is found out by people that you have hidden this part of you from. I know it prolly took the breath right out of you when you were told about being found by your friend.

I agree with all you say. I think our society wants to find out how the homosexual world ticks. But it sure is crazy that they have to inspect and dissect that lifestyle. What gets me is it really isn't anyone's business. Personally, coming out shouldn't even be an issue. Who cares what you do in your own home? No one should. But it seems that when a person is asked if they are Gay, the usual response is "Ewwww!" As if it the worse thing a person can do, is to love another person. That is the bottom line... Love.

I don't care to know if Cooper does or doesn't have a bf, or even wants to come out and say so. It's his life... and we would all be better to leave things like this alone... It is not like the gay community is sleeping in the heterosexual's bed.

I know it will be tough decisions for you down the road, but just remember, you are NOT required to tell anyone that you are gay or not. It is not a law, and it should not reflect on anything you do out in society. If people minded their own affairs, they wouldn't have time worrying about "who's sleepin with whom."

*matrick001 wrote:
Haha. It did take the breath right under me. I was my friend's first encounter with a homosexual ever. In fact, he stopped talking in the summer of '97 which was when he found out. Fortunately for us, we had classes together the following fall and he was able to see I was the same guy he had known in high school.

I wish we lived in a world where homosexuality wasn't an issue...where everyone knew that being gay was by no means a choice but a trait like the color of our eyes. Unfortunately, we live in a world where people are stigmatized for not believing in nuclear families. Society deems that a man + woman + children = guranteed happiness. We all know that equation is wrong in so many ways.

Who cares if Anderson Cooper has a bf or not? I do. The more of us who keep quiet the more we uphold the vary constraints that prevent us from having equal rights. The more we try to be "normal" and try not to rock the boat so that the majority will merely tolerate us is a sad existence. It is one that I subscribed to for far too long. Homosexuals should never be tolerated, they should be accepted.