RE: A Show of Gay Pride
March 29, 2013 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2013 at 12:41 am by jstrodel.)
I don't know if I directly felt pressured, I thought I was gay, I wasn't faking it, but I really wanted to be cool in high school. The devil has worked really hard to get kids in highschool to think that having sex makes you cool, that is like the dividing line between cool people and uncool people. Homosexuality is like another twist on that, if you are homosexual, that is like another way of that same - sexually active - cool paradigm (reinforced by music, movies, television, etc). The more people hate you for it, the cooler it is. I guess some highschools would be totally against homosexuals, some for it, I used to relish in being an outsider.
Obviously it is more complicated than that, not a conscious yielding to peer pressure, more like values that become so ingrained inside of you. Talking about sex is cool, it isn't cool to care about pregnancy, etc.
I do not think that that is really where homosexuality mainly originates though.
I think people would be wise to put serious decision like whether to identify as a homosexual permanently off until they grow up a little bit. I don't regret it. I don't hate gays and I'm not homophobic. It is a big decision to decide that you are gay and not straight and that is settled.
Obviously it is more complicated than that, not a conscious yielding to peer pressure, more like values that become so ingrained inside of you. Talking about sex is cool, it isn't cool to care about pregnancy, etc.
I do not think that that is really where homosexuality mainly originates though.
I think people would be wise to put serious decision like whether to identify as a homosexual permanently off until they grow up a little bit. I don't regret it. I don't hate gays and I'm not homophobic. It is a big decision to decide that you are gay and not straight and that is settled.
