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Originally Posted by adidasss
Lets try and dig to the bottom of this issue.
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Roblem #1: In the U.S. a lot of
gay men in the 70s didn't use condoms while "digging to the bottom," shall we say, and so HIV infection rates were very high in the ga
y male population...higher than in the general public. Sadly, a lot of fine people died, and I think the general public then blamed
gay men for HIV, when in fact HIV had been (and continues to be) a predominantly heterosexual disease in Africa where the virus originated.
Roblem #2: Same-sex couples probably have a higher chance of having the same first name, so that could be confusing! One of my closest friends in college and his significant other had the same name. I thought it was cute, but strangers calling them on the phone might ask for "Don," and then find out that wasn't the Don they wanted. Yes. A Very Troubling Problem, that.
Roblem #3: I think people often feel sexuality is clear-cut--hetero, homo, bi, etc., and ignore the gray zones among this black and white thinking. If you are classified as "homosexual," I think people probably define you more by the sexual side of your being than all the other sides, which I would find frustrating. No one refers to me as "my hetero friend Erica." Of course, I don't consider myself hetero, so that may be one reason why!
