Do I have to like fashion and hold my hand funny?

Okay, now this is a bizzare question... but perfectly valid.

Just because you are gay, lesbian or bi you don't have to change a single thing about you.
The world we live in likes to create these little boxes, traditionally and lovingly known as 'stereotypes'

Stereotype: a noun
Sociology. a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes.

I am assuming most of us developed a terrible perception of being gay / lesbian when we were living at home with our parents and they were telling us about how they were ( for men) very feminine, talked funny, always horny, nasty people, liked fashion or interior decorating...
This is wrong.. Not all gay people are trying to be the sex opposite to them, or are going to automatically act a bit like them. Many gay people find these stereotypes boring and insulting. As GDProphetXVII says in one of his youtube videos. In a homosexual relationship there are two men or two women, there is no woman or no man in these relationships. People need to be mindful of this, and also that gay people are original like anyone else.

Just because you happen to like the same sex doesn't mean you have to be anything. You have just as much control over your life as any other person.


I personally always find it very funny when someone brings up a stereotype because they often defy all logic. One thing that gets to me is the idea that gay people choose to be gay to get attention, or again that they are all interior designers.. this is so rediculous that I usually just laugh.. and occassionally I get the " what's so funny?".. and I have to ask them.. " you don't know? ". Seriously if we were all interior designers, the economy would be in a fairly terrible place.


So you are starting to dig through the crap that is homosexual stereotypes, remember you are you.. The stereotypes may just happen to be something that you happen to do.. but they aren't you.


You don't have to:

• wear pink
• go to gay clubs
• have only gay friends
• have a great deal of promiscuous sex ( unless you want to)
  
• talk in a high pitch
• love fashion
• be anorexic
• listen to Miley Cyrus ( this is seriously a stereotype )
• hold your hand funny

You just have to be whatever you feel you want to be.. cheesy but profoundly true :)
**kk peace out!**