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[dreamer_easy]

So I thought I'd cheer myself up by watching The Making of Me avec la Barrowman. There's lots of lols, but I defy you to watch the bit with Pete, who was subjected to the whole Clockwork Orange bit in an effort to torture teh ghey out of him, and not want to have a little cry. JB is appalled to learn that homosexuality was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980. He wonders if, had he grown up there instead of Illinois (the first US state to drop its sodomy laws, in 1961), he might have been one of the many gay kids who take their own lives.

To balance that a bit, here are some cute dogs.

ETA: That reminds me - murasaki_1966 pointed me to a New Scientist news item: Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals'. "How can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation? The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children." Interesting... now do the same experiment with lesbians!

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[alisoneales.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of gay folk who accept and understand bisexuality. There are others who themselves identified as bi for a period as a 'stepping stone' towards identifying as gay, and so (wrongly) assume that all bi folk are actually transitioning somehow to being gay. And there are some who, for whatever reason, really can't accept that bisexuality exists.

I think you're completely right though - for some gay people their sexuality is defined in terms of 'otherness', and don't like it when pesky halfgays come along and prove that actually there isn't a gaping vaccuum between them and the hetties.