CDL Blogoversary, Day One: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding ->-bleeped-<-?
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6/3/09
I've decided to write a little bit about ->-bleeped-<-, since this seems a nice venue to do so. I am very interested in the topics of sexuality and gender, and if you've read Claire's Transgender Primer for the Curious, Apprehensive, or Confused, you know that sexuality and gender are not the same thing. For instance, I was ok with "the gay", as Claire likes to say, well before I understood and accepted ->-bleeped-<-.
I don't remember exactly when I became ok with homosexuality, but I know it was sometime before high school. Of course, as a young child it didn't occur to me that there could be some moral difference between having romantic feelings for a person of one gender versus another. This attitude that one type of sexual attraction is ok while another is verboten is socialized into us. Sometime around maybe 4th or 5th grade, when kids are becoming more cognizant of their sexuality, I became aware of the fact that people recognize straight versus gay, and that straight is perceived as normal, while anything else is considered aberrant.