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In fact, personally, I would rather people accept me for who I am as they know me, and not have it have anything to do with sex and physical desires.

I am always wary of those types of disclosures anyway, you know?

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Me too Sky. I am wonderfully heterosexual and I have many friends who are wonderfully gay...In a perfect world...so what...our sexuality has little to do with much of anything except plumbing...Love is Love...period.

But somewhere along the line fear did its destructive work and words like fag, queer, dike, sword swallower, queen and the like became labels to what is not understood. How does a closeted gay feel when one of these words is used in his/her company? Do you know any similar names for the sexual proclivity of a herterosexual?

Then the church(s) in their open and affirming way decided that Love between two consenting adults was specifically definned by God and anything other that sex resulting in potential pregancy was sinfull. For years,,my use of condoms dutifully prescribed my destiny to hell....

I admit,,,I too was wary of disclosures of the personal type. But then I learned about secrets and the harm they do to the health of the human psyche and spirit. I learned about mental illness and addiction and the power of fear. I learned about bigotry, punishing Gods, and exclusionary beliefs and how those fears hurt people for generations..

Then slowly,,like a glacier,,I began to change and see that acceptance was the key to difference. My prejudice was keeping rooms locked to me and thus to my children whom I pass the keys...

With Respect,

Lenny