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I’d like to tell you how I think about a particular concept.
I’m not gay. “Gay” or “homosexual” or “straight” are societal classifications. Now, that sounds like some highfalutin jargon, but it isn’t and I’m going to explain why.
I am only myself; I have no idea what it is to be “gay” or “straight”, no one does. This is because those terms classify you relative to other people, none of whom you’ve been. Everyone is just themselves and no one else knows what that feels like.
If you are a “straight” man you are just a man who finds sexual and romantic intrigue in creatures of the same species and opposite gender. And I am just a man who finds sexual and romantic intrigue in creatures of the same species and same as well as opposite gender. It is that simple; I make no classifications for that in my mind - each person is just themselves and I allow them that. This isn’t always how I speak about people however, because the way society has organized itself we need classifications to communicate. This fact of life does not change my thought: I don’t know any gay, straight, or bisexual people. I have some friends whom I’ve noticed are attracted consistently to people of the same sex, some consistently to the opposite, some find attractions without consistency, and don’t classify any of them beyond their name.
Note: Don’t think I say this out of shame. I am not at all ashamed. I’ve put this here for a group of young people who are putting way to much pressure on themselves to find a definition for who they are. No individual fits into a definition; the people who think they do are lying to themselves in my opinion. We’re each only ourselves and you do not need classification.
See you Tuesday. ;-)