(August 23, 2012 at 3:16 am)Lion IRC Wrote: I've always wondered whether a gay person would leave the love of their life, their soul mate, the person they insist they would ''marry'' if the law permited...
...if that person changed gender.
...if they lost their visually distinctive masculine/feminine features.
...if that person discovered they were really bi-sexual or heterosexual rather than homosexual.
The insistence by some/many gay people that they simply cannot BE anything other than gay, seems to say that their homosexual relationships
are only skin-deep (genitalia) and are dependent upon their partner being sufficiently "same-sex". It seems to be a BARRIER to unconditional love.
I don't think there's such a thing as completely gay or straight. I think everyone falls somewhere in the middle. As I am definitely in the middle somewhere, if the person I loved changed gender or physical appearance, it would not make a difference to me unless her personality changed with it, which would prompt me to re-evaluate a relationship no matter what else is going on. But, I can also see how people view such things to be an important aspect of whomever they are dating. Hell, for some people, love itself isn't really a big deal.
But, as Shell B pointed out, everything you said about gay people applies just as much to people who think they are straight. If you fell in love with a woman who, one day, by inexplicable means, woke up a man in looks and physical build, how strong would your love be?
