I am not sure what it is. I remember my first reaction to "gay" was not a positive one. Might have been my upbringing or the fact that it seems to be a universal part of every boy's pre-adolescence/adolescence that calling someone "gay" was about the worst you could say to someone. Anything unmanly or not in line with what "boys" are supposed to do was considered gay. So it comes as no surprise that boys that live with this, combine it with religious "justification," and become men have an emotional reaction to homosexuality.
Fortunately, one of my best friends in high school was gay and was so confident and popular that no one dared make fun of him. He de-stigmatized everything about homsexuality for me. Also, I never bought into the whole religion thing. So it's not even a thing for me. I am fascinated with gay culture, and everything I know about gay people is reinforced by the LGBTQ community.
Fortunately, one of my best friends in high school was gay and was so confident and popular that no one dared make fun of him. He de-stigmatized everything about homsexuality for me. Also, I never bought into the whole religion thing. So it's not even a thing for me. I am fascinated with gay culture, and everything I know about gay people is reinforced by the LGBTQ community.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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