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Reply #30 posted 05/06/05 3:49pm

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:


And I hate Morissey and I am gay! lol


stfu And I like Morrissey and I am not... eek

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Reply #31 posted 05/06/05 8:25pm

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PANDURITO said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:


And I hate Morissey and I am gay! lol


stfu And I like Morrissey and I am not... eek


Yes you are.
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Reply #32 posted 05/06/05 8:33pm

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Reply #33 posted 05/06/05 8:52pm

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Gays know , i can't say how (becuase I'm obviously not gay)
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Reply #34 posted 05/06/05 9:44pm

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Gay people are so busy trying to push the idea that they're are born gay to counter the religious right's attitude towards it that they forget that it is not that black and white for everyone. It goes back to nature vs. nurture. I personally don't believe anyone is born any way. I think it develops. Some later than others. There are things I can pinpoint in my past that have helped develop my sexuality. I'm bi. I remember liking boys and girls at a young age. I focused on the opposite sex until my twenties. I honestly think, for me, that the lack of a relationship with my father (I am female) and being molested were factors in developing my sexuality. I don't know how big or samll these factors are though shrug
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Reply #35 posted 05/06/05 10:15pm

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Emotions said:

Gay people are so busy trying to push the idea that they're are born gay to counter the religious right's attitude towards it that they forget that it is not that black and white for everyone. It goes back to nature vs. nurture. I personally don't believe anyone is born any way. I think it develops. Some later than others. There are things I can pinpoint in my past that have helped develop my sexuality. I'm bi. I remember liking boys and girls at a young age. I focused on the opposite sex until my twenties. I honestly think, for me, that the lack of a relationship with my father (I am female) and being molested were factors in developing my sexuality. I don't know how big or samll these factors are though shrug


Don't push your skeletons in your closet on us. And since you're "bi" you can't really speak for gay people, can you? It may be nat/nut for some people, but not for all. For me, personally, it was nature. I was raised religious all my life and told being gay was bad, so then what sense would it make for me to BE gay? It doesn't. Because i was born gay.
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Reply #36 posted 05/06/05 10:23pm

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GlitterStream said:

Emotions said:

Gay people are so busy trying to push the idea that they're are born gay to counter the religious right's attitude towards it that they forget that it is not that black and white for everyone. It goes back to nature vs. nurture. I personally don't believe anyone is born any way. I think it develops. Some later than others. There are things I can pinpoint in my past that have helped develop my sexuality. I'm bi. I remember liking boys and girls at a young age. I focused on the opposite sex until my twenties. I honestly think, for me, that the lack of a relationship with my father (I am female) and being molested were factors in developing my sexuality. I don't know how big or samll these factors are though shrug


Don't push your skeletons in your closet on us. And since you're "bi" you can't really speak for gay people, can you? It may be nat/nut for some people, but not for all. For me, personally, it was nature. I was raised religious all my life and told being gay was bad, so then what sense would it make for me to BE gay? It doesn't. Because i was born gay.


I don't have any skeletons. And aren't we all part of the same community? Or are you discriminating against bisexuals? Everywhere I go it is the GLBT community that is being represented. Why can't I speak for gay people? I don't need to tell my business, but since you think I'm not qualified, let me just say I have never had sex with a man, but I am sexually attracted to men but mostly women and A LOT of people do things they were told were bad so that argument doesn't work. You may have been born gay, but eberybody isn't
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Reply #37 posted 05/06/05 11:05pm

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Emotions said:

GlitterStream said:



Don't push your skeletons in your closet on us. And since you're "bi" you can't really speak for gay people, can you? It may be nat/nut for some people, but not for all. For me, personally, it was nature. I was raised religious all my life and told being gay was bad, so then what sense would it make for me to BE gay? It doesn't. Because i was born gay.


I don't have any skeletons. And aren't we all part of the same community? Or are you discriminating against bisexuals? Everywhere I go it is the GLBT community that is being represented. Why can't I speak for gay people? I don't need to tell my business, but since you think I'm not qualified, let me just say I have never had sex with a man, but I am sexually attracted to men but mostly women and A LOT of people do things they were told were bad so that argument doesn't work. You may have been born gay, but eberybody isn't


Yes i do discriminate against "bi-sexuals". I won't lie about that. And try to convince a gay person that they weren't born gay and see how far you get. It's easy for you to say, since you're not gay. So do you think you were born "bi"?
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Reply #38 posted 05/06/05 11:39pm

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GlitterStream said:

Emotions said:



I don't have any skeletons. And aren't we all part of the same community? Or are you discriminating against bisexuals? Everywhere I go it is the GLBT community that is being represented. Why can't I speak for gay people? I don't need to tell my business, but since you think I'm not qualified, let me just say I have never had sex with a man, but I am sexually attracted to men but mostly women and A LOT of people do things they were told were bad so that argument doesn't work. You may have been born gay, but eberybody isn't


Yes i do discriminate against "bi-sexuals". I won't lie about that. And try to convince a gay person that they weren't born gay and see how far you get. It's easy for you to say, since you're not gay. So do you think you were born "bi"?


I already said before I don't think anybody is born gay or straight, so no I don not think I was born bi. I think sexuality develops over time. Some sooner than others. Why are you putting bi in quotations?
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Reply #39 posted 05/07/05 1:19am

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

scififilmnerd said:



I've never even heard Morissey! stab

So if what you're saying is true, then how can I possibly be gay?! confuse

And I hate Morissey and I am gay! lol


Maybe it was Barbra Streisand, then? I saw The Way We Were at an impressionable age. nod

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Reply #40 posted 05/07/05 1:41am

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Well I have never believed the "having been born gay"-claim because the only so-called natural, innate type of sexuality is indeed of the heterosexual-type that just simply serves procreational purposes.

However we humans are equipped with an ability to be receptive to and handle all kinds of concepts that we encounter in social life, and it's quite normal and, inexorable as well for that matter, for our sexualities to develop over the basic animalistic levels. No straight males are "born" to be turned on by miniskirts and lingerie either. It's just how our natural tendencies for what we consider attractive will get adapted to in complex social situations.

So why do even some animals behave gay? Because even animals have a low-level capacity to deal with certain type of concepts and have designated impulses for that. There is certainly no "gay gene", but there definitely must be a tendency gene for the sexual desire to transform out of just the heterosexual behaviour (getting turned on by a person that dresses up "sexy" is not heterosexual per se either, it's fetishist - and not that much different from homosexuality in these terms). It serves no evolutionary purposes, but let's face it: it's a whole more fun.
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Reply #41 posted 05/07/05 3:24am

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I am not gay, or at least I don't think so. There have been quite a few situations where I felt like a real lesbian and felt dirty afterwards because I believe in GOD and the bible, well, parts of it anyway, and afterlife. So if in that situation, I try to focus on a really hot guy to get that picture outta my head. See with me, if you're cute, thoughts just go wild in my head of what we could do together. It doesn't matter what sex you are, but it ALWAYS happens to me sigh . And I hate it when a female is in the picture. Although I have nothing against gays, (OBVIOUSLY), some are really cool people to hang/talk with (in other words Miguel and Glam hug ). but I don't think I would be able to handle the fact that I was a lesbian, IF I was a lesbian.




But for right now, I am in a VERY confused stage. I have no idea. I KNOW I love men, but then there's always that thought in the back of my head "She is GORGEOUS though".....so I don't know. I guess with some people, you are born straight, but then that doesn't work out, or you figure that something is missing, and then you try the same sex. You turn out to like them and then you're "OFFICIALLY" gay, no more being straight in your life.


With me, I've never been with a woman. But then I wonder what it would be like sometimes. So I guess in some ways, it's thrown on you. Some like the same sex either because they feel that they can relate to what you're are going through because they are the same sex and therefore KNOW what is happening to you for themselves. For example some women might want someone with the same functions as her, than a man who has NO CLUE what she's going through and vice versa.


So I guess it can go either way. It's either thrown on you, or you have been all your life and proud to say it. Me.....I have to decide that for myself. sigh


Have you considered the possibility that you might be bisexual?

It blows my mind how many people, yourself included, think that you can only like men or only like women. That if you find yourself attracted to a member of the same sex you must be "turning gay" or that you must be confused. There are plenty of people who are interested in both sexes, and are quite content with it.
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Reply #42 posted 05/07/05 3:27am

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GlitterStream said:

Emotions said:



I don't have any skeletons. And aren't we all part of the same community? Or are you discriminating against bisexuals? Everywhere I go it is the GLBT community that is being represented. Why can't I speak for gay people? I don't need to tell my business, but since you think I'm not qualified, let me just say I have never had sex with a man, but I am sexually attracted to men but mostly women and A LOT of people do things they were told were bad so that argument doesn't work. You may have been born gay, but eberybody isn't


Yes i do discriminate against "bi-sexuals". I won't lie about that. And try to convince a gay person that they weren't born gay and see how far you get. It's easy for you to say, since you're not gay. So do you think you were born "bi"?

Care to elaborate? What's your problem with bi people?

Obviously, I mean real bisexuals. Not stupid teenage girls who make out with each other to get attention at parties.
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Reply #43 posted 05/07/05 3:40am

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Novabreaker said:

Well I have never believed the "having been born gay"-claim because the only so-called natural, innate type of sexuality is indeed of the heterosexual-type that just simply serves procreational purposes.

However we humans are equipped with an ability to be receptive to and handle all kinds of concepts that we encounter in social life, and it's quite normal and, inexorable as well for that matter, for our sexualities to develop over the basic animalistic levels. No straight males are "born" to be turned on by miniskirts and lingerie either. It's just how our natural tendencies for what we consider attractive will get adapted to in complex social situations.

So why do even some animals behave gay? Because even animals have a low-level capacity to deal with certain type of concepts and have designated impulses for that. There is certainly no "gay gene", but there definitely must be a tendency gene for the sexual desire to transform out of just the heterosexual behaviour (getting turned on by a person that dresses up "sexy" is not heterosexual per se either, it's fetishist - and not that much different from homosexuality in these terms). It serves no evolutionary purposes, but let's face it: it's a whole more fun.


I've often thought of unconventional sexuality (GLBT) in this way:

Is it normal? If the guesses are right, and we do make up approximately 10 per cent of the population, then no, we're not normal. "Normal" meaning "the norm" or the majority. To put it in perspective, approximately 10 per cent of the population of the U.S. is black, and approximately 10 per cent of the world population is left-handed. But in a society where Reality TV is The Fad That Refuses To Die, and therefore regular viewing is the norm, who wants to be normal? lol

Is it natural? Again, strictly speaking, perhaps not. After all, speaking in terms of evolution and the survival of the species (of any species, really) the main objective is reproduction. Not to say gay folks don't have kids, but the chances of reproducing are greatly reduced due to the laws of anatomy. But when you stop to consider that homosexuality has occurred in every race, in every civilization, in every country, in every time that humans have existed -not to mention in the myriad of other species -in relatively regular and stable rates, perhaps non-heterosexuality exists for a reason? Whether it's a genetic fluke, or if you're so inclined to believe in such things, God made people like that, it's there and always has been. So maybe we're natural after all.
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Reply #44 posted 05/07/05 4:18am

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HamsterHuey said:

PANDURITO said:



stfu And I like Morrissey and I am ...not... eek


Yes you are.

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Reply #45 posted 05/07/05 4:22am

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You're all wrong. smile
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Reply #46 posted 05/07/05 4:33am

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Gaymaster said:

You're all wrong. smile


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We are waiting to hear about what you so confidently stand behind.

Well? smile
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Reply #47 posted 05/07/05 4:50am

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And that's all I have to say on the subject. smile
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Reply #48 posted 05/07/05 4:51am

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And that's all I have to say on the subject. smile



You're all wrong smile
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Reply #49 posted 05/07/05 4:53am

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Reply #50 posted 05/07/05 11:46am

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meow85 said:

GlitterStream said:



Yes i do discriminate against "bi-sexuals". I won't lie about that. And try to convince a gay person that they weren't born gay and see how far you get. It's easy for you to say, since you're not gay. So do you think you were born "bi"?

Care to elaborate? What's your problem with bi people?

[img]Obviously, I mean real bisexuals. Not stupid teenage girls who make out with each other to get attention at parties.[/img]


Those are the ONLY "bi" people i have problems with. I believe there are genuinely bi-sexual people. Instead of the ones who just wanna be curious and will go out with a guy/girl then break up with them and be like "oh, i just wanted to know if i was bi or not" or some stupid shit like that and make other bi-sexuals look bad. Not dumbasses who confuse curiousity or who they're allow them to define what their sexuality is.
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Reply #51 posted 05/07/05 11:49am

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Novabreaker said:

Well I have never believed the "having been born gay"-claim because the only so-called natural, innate type of sexuality is indeed of the heterosexual-type that just simply serves procreational purposes.

However we humans are equipped with an ability to be receptive to and handle all kinds of concepts that we encounter in social life, and it's quite normal and, inexorable as well for that matter, for our sexualities to develop over the basic animalistic levels. No straight males are "born" to be turned on by miniskirts and lingerie either. It's just how our natural tendencies for what we consider attractive will get adapted to in complex social situations.

So why do even some animals behave gay? Because even animals have a low-level capacity to deal with certain type of concepts and have designated impulses for that. There is certainly no "gay gene", but there definitely must be a tendency gene for the sexual desire to transform out of just the heterosexual behaviour (getting turned on by a person that dresses up "sexy" is not heterosexual per se either, it's fetishist - and not that much different from homosexuality in these terms). It serves no evolutionary purposes, but let's face it: it's a whole more fun.


The only other model with any emperical support behind of homosexuality being genetic is the idea that intra-uterine hormone fluxuations may affect fetuses' brain development. Food intake can affect hormone levels. Famine years actually have a slightly higher pecentage of GLBT births, accordingly. Genes however could also cause hormone fluxuations, so go figure.

A common objection to the genetic hypothesis is "why doesen't it just die out since gays don't reproduce". This can be answered with some experimental findings showing that when females carry the genotype for a male homosexual orientation, they simply end up being *even more* attracted to males than the rest of the heterosexual population. They are, in effect, "hyper-heterosexual". Thus, they make more babies than normal, ergo, the genotype is perpetuated.

Another possibility, and one that I sometimes entertain, is that, quite simply, The human brain is a complex organ in a complex organism, and sexual attraction is a difficult feature to construct reliably each time. It is possible that more or less random events in the internal development of the brain sometimes result in atypical structures which correspond to atypical sexual orientations.

A simple analogy is the growth patterns of trees. Even genetically identical trees will have differently-shaped branches. Many factors contribute to these differences - accidents in the formation of the seed, the randomness of Brownian motion, slightly different soil, wind, water, and lighting conditions, etc. As a result, one tree may end up with 49 apples, the one next to it, with 51. Oh, and...It's a gay thing. You wouldn't understand.
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Reply #52 posted 05/07/05 11:52am

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Reply #53 posted 05/07/05 6:57pm

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GlitterStream said:

meow85 said:


Care to elaborate? What's your problem with bi people?

[img]Obviously, I mean real bisexuals. Not stupid teenage girls who make out with each other to get attention at parties.[/img]


Those are the ONLY "bi" people i have problems with. I believe there are genuinely bi-sexual people. Instead of the ones who just wanna be curious and will go out with a guy/girl then break up with them and be like "oh, i just wanted to know if i was bi or not" or some stupid shit like that and make other bi-sexuals look bad. Not dumbasses who confuse curiousity or who they're allow them to define what their sexuality is.


It always makes me laugh to hear people say they believe bi people really exist. "I believe in bisexuals!" falloff

Well, if you had any lingering doubts as to our existance, you're talking to one now. smile

I don't have anything against people who experiment, because there are so many reasons why a person would do so. It's the people that fake being bi because it's trendy, or those (usually girls) that make out with each other because it'll get guys to pay attention to them. You can spot them a mile away, and it ain't cool. They're the ones giving us a bad name, not so much the experimenters.
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Reply #54 posted 05/08/05 4:43am

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meow85 said:

GlitterStream said:



Those are the ONLY "bi" people i have problems with. I believe there are genuinely bi-sexual people. Instead of the ones who just wanna be curious and will go out with a guy/girl then break up with them and be like "oh, i just wanted to know if i was bi or not" or some stupid shit like that and make other bi-sexuals look bad. Not dumbasses who confuse curiousity or who they're allow them to define what their sexuality is.


It always makes me laugh to hear people say they believe bi people really exist. "I believe in bisexuals!" falloff

Well, if you had any lingering doubts as to our existance, you're talking to one now. smile

I don't have anything against people who experiment, because there are so many reasons why a person would do so. It's the people that fake being bi because it's trendy, or those (usually girls) that make out with each other because it'll get guys to pay attention to them. You can spot them a mile away, and it ain't cool. They're the ones giving us a bad name, not so much the experimenters.


Oh hun, i knew you were bi, and i don't have a problem with you, just the stupid bitches. And one more thing for whoever started this thread: It's a gay thing, you wouldn't understand. Moderators? lock Let's wrap this bitch up.
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Reply #55 posted 05/09/05 1:11am

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It's the people that fake being bi because it's trendy, or those (usually girls) that make out with each other because it'll get guys to pay attention to them. You can spot them a mile away, and it ain't cool.


Ooo-oh! Fake lesbians! But that's the best kind!
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Reply #56 posted 05/09/05 3:45am

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gay huh? neutral
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Reply #57 posted 05/09/05 5:22am

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Is this your coming-out thread, LadyBoy? neutral
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Reply #58 posted 05/09/05 5:29am

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TheFrog said:

Is this your coming-out thread, LadyBoy? neutral


I thought it was yours. neutral
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Is this your coming-out thread, LadyBoy? neutral


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