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It's really a misnomer to think that everyone knows everyone else's sexual preference. I'm not saying this with any malice, ...but it's only been since homosexuals began making it public knowledge that there is any talk about what a person's preference is. Is this part of its culture?

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When most people see a heterosexual couple walking down the street holding hands, do they think of that couple as people who are just out to "make their sexual preference public"? I would hazard a guess that most people, if they noticed them at all, would just see a couple in love.

Now, let's say it is a homosexual couple walking down the street holding hands. What do you think most people would think? I am going to hazard a guess again, and say that most people are going to think exactly what you wrote, that the couple who happened to be homosexual, just wanted to make their "sexual" preference "public knowledge".

So who is doing all the thinking about "sexual" things regarding the second couple? You guessed it, the narrow minded people who think of homosexuals as ONLY interested in the "sexual" nature of a relationship, but allowing the heterosexual couple the capacity to have a more complex relationship.

It is that type of narrow minded thinking that "requires" homosexuals to "come out of the closet," in the first place, like it or not. Actually, the only real reason a homosexual needs to come "out" in the first place, is to be able to share things with their family, friends and partner, that heterosexual people take for granted. Like the ability to hold the hand of the person they love....... In public.

Some people feel uncomfortable when they see a homosexual couple holding hands, although not a heterosexual couple. Others can get downright nasty, when they see a gay couple. Yelling vulgar things, throwing objects and even physically assaulting the homosexual couple. So who put the homosexuals in the closet in the first place?

So who thinks the homosexuals "culture" is all about making their sexual preference, "public knowledge"? Only the narrow minded people, in my book. Of course that is said without malice