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this is interesting and something i have thought about a fair bit in the past. it throws up various questions about the extent to which our sexuality is influenced by what we see in front of us. I'm not exactly sure where i stand on the whole nature/nurture angle on homosexulaity but i'm pretty sure that i wasn't "born" gay, maybe i'm wrong, but i'm a pretty visually-oriented person and i thought i was gay, to a large extent, just because i like the look of men. reading this has made me question that, to an extent.

his account of going into a gay bar for the first time and being "basically rendered deaf and blind because of the noise level" and trying to work up the courage to talk to the person next to him, someone he has no ideas about beforehand, is heartbreaking.

more on the same subject here


― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

i thought i was gay, to a large extent, just because i like the look of men

i realise how facile this sounds...

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

...imagine that!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

(AaronHz to thread. Um, not cause he's blind. Or gay.)

Thanks for posting this, Col! Very interesting and something I've never really given any thought to.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

wow yeah that was really pretty heartbreaking.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

A hearing friend of mine dated a deaf guy for a while. His stories about the guy were terribly sad too. I believe there is a relatively high profile gay/deaf support network/community though. I guess assumed such a thing exists for sight impaired gay people as well, but obv while it helps it still must be very difficult.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

"I still dream of a special friend who will love me, and accept me and Harley as a team."

Ouch, it hurts to read that last line.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

(AaronHz to thread. Um, not cause he's blind. Or gay.)

or retarded.

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Touching write-up

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Thursday, 17 February 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

i'm blind after reading that white text on that background. he should of at least gotten someone with sight to do the html.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 17 February 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)


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