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Originally Posted by Awareness

Well at least you have had your say, and we are back to square one, which is your pouting again, how about proving me wrong??

You should be careful confusing denial with betrayel

What's your proof for the assertions you make? You who persist in asserting--without proof--the mistaken view that sexual orientation is mere choice? Suggested reading:
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the 90s.

How much time have you spent with gay/lesbian/transgender folk talking with them about their experiences? On what do you base your assertion that sexual orientation is a choice? How is sexuality any more of a choice than skin color?

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OK, I don't consider myself an expert, but I spent five years as a director of a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to reducing violence both within and against the LGBT community, during the course of which I spent many, many hours with LGBT folks of all types. I went through the training course they conducted for speakers who would be going into area schools to talk about what it's like to be LGBT, in the hope that meeting and talking with folks would reduce the violence. I spent a day (with my teenaged daughter) providing security at the Dore Alley Fair ("You have to cover at least this much of your private parts.") I spent a Pride Day parade tootling up and down the route in a golf cart with a transgender male who had only recently begun hormone treatment (with much of the same effect I remembered from having gone through puberty, myself), collecting donations from folks who had come to watch the parade. For a period of nine years, while working part-time in San Francisco and then full-time in Los Angeles, while living in San Diego, i rented rooms from gay friends. I tell you, Awareness, the folks who think that their sexuality was a choice are few and far between. Your insistence that it is a choice is very badly mistaken.

Awareness: just how aware are you of your own ignorance, rather than that of others?