"For the radicals, like the
conservatives, homosexuality is definitely a
choice. . . . They both react with disdain to
those studies that seem to reflect a genetic source for
homosexuality."
—Andrew
Sullivan, "The Politics of Homosexuality," The New
Republic, May 10, 1993
Andrew Sullivan doesn't claim to be a
radical—he'd be sickened at the thought!—and he
refuses to believe that anyone can choose to be queer. Yet as you
can see from the quote above, he clearly acknowledges that those
of us who consider ourselves "queer by choice" are true
radicals. Whether the idea of queerness as a radical choice is
familiar to you or brand new, you've come to the right place
to find out more about it. This is QueerByChoice.com—a
radical gathering place for people who have chosen to be
queer.
The Implications of Choice
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Critiques of "Gay Gene" Studies
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Interact with Queer by Choice People
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"Those [men] who pursued sexual
relations exclusively with women [in 17th century Japan] were in
a minority and were considered mildly eccentric for limiting
their pleasureable options."
—Paul
Gordon Schalow, "Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary
Depiction of the 'Youth,'"
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian
Past, 1989 (winner of two 1989 Lambda
Literary Awards, for "Gay Men's Anthologies" and
"Lesbian Anthologies")
©
1999-2009 by Gayle Madwin. All rights reserved.
4 comments:
From my own experiences, i'd have to say the sexual desires of straight and gay, as a teen, were both present.
But still, i don't feel it was a choice. In that adolescent cocktail of chemistry, the stronger desire won out.
And that's not to say genes don't play a role. The genetic probabilities are endless.
I'm with Jimm. I don't see how being attracted to a particular person can be a matter of choice. It's the chemistry that does the choosing, and unless we introduce foreign chemicals to our bodies, then it's the natural ones that cause the attraction.
To say it's a matter of choice, you might as well tell a fridge magnet to ignore the fridge door.
A 16-year-old would screw a keyhole if it could get him off. The movie star James Dean, when asked whether one should avoid same sex sexual encounters, responded, "I'm not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back." I think it's all genetic, but what happens sometimes depends on the day and the situation.
For many years, I did not know that I could be gay. What I mean, is that it was expected that I marry. I never really heard about sex or even love.
Sex is for making babies, nothing more. Pleasure of any kind is a sin.
That's what was preached to me. Little did I know that they were all going home and pleasuring it up without me.
Sex went with marriage and babies.If you had it for any other reason, it was a choice. And you'd burn in hell for that choice. So, yeah! I chose to be straight. Well, I didn't have sex with anyone, if that's what straight is.
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