The fact I even ask myself this question – you can bet your last pork scratching straight men don’t ask who they’d be if they were gay – shows how powerful the messages of assimilation were, which I absorbed growing up under Section 28. I said, 'I don't know where your God comes from, but my God would never turn his back on me and he would never send anyone to give me a message that would.
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I hate to think that Straight Gary would vote from a place of self-interest but how can I be sure white male privilege wouldn’t take hold? It has amplified my gratitude for being gay and all the qualities I believe that has gifted me with: drag queen wit, humour, and resilience. I don’t know who he is and I don’t want to know. It was surprising to me, but I concede that I’d be an entirely different person, society’s structures still being as they are. If I was straight, my core values would not be the same. Of course, not all gays love Cher (she’s such a survivor though!) and the wrestle over gay culture’s camp stereotypes can be problematic for some.
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And a lifelong addiction to VH1 Divas Live was born. In fact, the Word of God states this in Romans 1:24-28. The very idea of two men having sexual relations is against nature. I remember mum allowing me two illegally copied £2.99 cassettes down Strood market. God doesn't make mistakes No one is 'born gay.' God created male and female, and they have natural sexual attractions one for the other, because they have male and female reproductive organs, respectively. I was culturally gay before I was sexually gay. In this way, being gay doesn’t define me but it certainly shapes how I live my life. It influences how I vote, my lack of religion, where I socialise, my attitude towards women, where I’ll work, my outlook and views, the music, icons, culture, films, books and art that speak to me. If I was straight, my core values would not be the sameīeing gay is far more than who I sleep with. It doesn’t define us.īut the question ‘who would you be if you were straight?’ has forced me to revise this. And a bit irritating, if well-intentioned.
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This much should be obvious by now.ĭefining us by our gayness alone can feel reductive and dated. They’re as complex and flawed and diverse as any of us. My eyes have barely finished rolling before I offer to introduce them to far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. In fact, we can get annoyed when someone diminishes us to our sexual orientation. Many gay people – myself included – say that being a homosexual is just part of who we are it doesn’t wholly define us as fully rounded people. Not anymore I absolutely wouldn’t take that pill today.