I feel like this thread is necessary for the continuation of society...
I don't know if you guys know this or not, but I'm not straight. However, I do not feel like this should place me or other gay people on this path to be reduced down to little more than the label that has been assigned to us. I am so tired of being treated like my sexuality is some sort of indicator that there are certain things that I'm just unable to do or that I am so much different from them. I am sick of people acting like I'm a completely different species because of this one minuscule fact. I'm a person just like you or your sibling or that sociopath down the street. I don't come with some sort of special ingredients like some premium meal at McDonalds. Having said that, I'm just making this so I can resolve at least one major issue that I've come across and so that in the future you can come at me upright and not result in a conversation that makes me want to go full Solaris and Dragon Rush you and also to just speak on behalf of other gay people who deal with this issue because I know that I am not the only gay person who is a part of the STRUGGLE.
Now, this applies to all double standardization that is so common, but the topic I want to address today is this apparent belief that gay men are just unable to find women attractive or admire them in some way. Yes, being gay means that I find men sexually attractive. Yes, it means that I would rather date a guy over a girl in most situations. No, it does not mean that I'm completely unable to appreciate a woman's beauty or find her attractive, physically or otherwise. If you think that then you might as well think that straight guys can't find another man attractive in some form and can only be attracted to women, but we all know this isn't true and no one questions it when a man does appreciate another male's beauty. This is an annoying and rather single minded belief is apparently more common than it seems, and both non-members and members of the LGBT community hold it. It may seem "odd" that someone who is attracted to the same sex would find someone of the opposite sex attractive, but that doesn't mean that it's something that's just completely incapable of happening and that doesn't mean that you need to question it if and when it does happen. A mindset like that is like thinking that just because I'm a soccer player I can't be interested in basketball or, if you want to get more precise, I can only be attracted to other soccer players. Do you see how foolish that sounds? Being gay doesn't automatically turn someone off to all things of the opposite sex. Gay people are more complex than just their sexuality may imply and sexuality in general is more complex than whatever label people may assign to it. This isn't Divergent. We don't pick a faction in our teenage years and remain with that faction until we die without any opportunity to branch out and visit other factions or explore other areas of life. As such, I ask that we do not act as though that is the case with sexuality either. I ask that we do not act like one simple word can explain the entire way a person thinks and take a minute to learn about them and see things through their eyes instead going off some preconceptions or misguided beliefs that we've gathered and are likely not true.