My opinion would be that homosexuality shouldn't even be an issue.
Telling someone that you're straight, bisexual or homosexual should be as commonplace as mentioning you have black, brown or blond hair.
Personally, I find it insulting when people get up in arms about straight or homosexual persons being upfront about their sexuality. Because it implies that there is and always will be something deficit about being attracted to the same sex.
It's the same underlying prejudice we still face with skin colour. We should be able to describe a person as having pale, olive or dark skin without walking on eggshells for fear of offending someone. Because if you're scared of offending someone, then deep down somewhere it's understood that one of those categories isn't as valid as the others.
Somehow, it's acceptable for me to say I'm attracted to tall persons, but not that I'm attracted to mainly caucasian and negro persons, or to identify which sex I may be attracted to.
(Even now I'm cringing at using the word negro because of it's connotations, even though it's the most technically correct in the context).
Does anyone else get what I mean?
Why do we even need to discuss this?
( Or well, I get it. It takes time for recent history to become archaic. I suppose this is part of the transitionary period between ostracising homosexuals, to "accepting" homosexuality {as the world tries to atm}, to not even thinking of it as any more unusual than other biological differences) .
(In smiley form form, the world has gone from
to :| to
to
to
- which is good - but I'd really rather see the world like this :file:).
Cheers
=> Jess
PS - I suppose
sure I'm "proud" of being attracted to both sexes, but only where I'm "proud" to have green eyes, "proud" to have blonde hair, "proud" to have the name Jessica, "proud" to be five foot one, "proud" that my favourite colour is lime, "proud" that I enjoy watching the antiques roadshow, "proud" that I do art.... just "proud" to be me in general. It's just the way it is.