Gayle Kg and Oprah Wey did an terview a while back and addrsed the longstandg gay mors about them.
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GAYLE KG ON ROMANCE RUMORS WH OPRAH: ‘IF WE WERE GAY, WE WOULD TELL YOU’
* if we were gay error *
The se posts photographs of gay-intified adults as children. Submters argue that the photographs are proof that they were born gay.
Pesg the photographs tells an tertg story: beg gay — that is, beg sexually sexually or romantilly attracted to members of the same sex — is nflated wh beg genr non-nformist — adoptg the mannerisms and terts of the other sex. This is the argument ma the vast majory of posts: ’s obv I was gay bee I broke l of masculy/femy by dog thgs like sniffg flowers, posg jntily, likg Snow Whe, and playg wh Barbie. It is a specifilly Amerin belief that gay men act feme and lbians act mascule.
But, fact, gay men and lbians have a wi range of genr performanc, as do straight and bisexual people. Meanwhile, most gay men and lbians uld probably fd pictur of themselv nformg. Neverthels, the se perpetuat this nflatn an effort to support the notn that beg gay is blogil.
IF WE WERE GAY
In ntrast to this assertn, however, excellent rearch has shown that there is no trans-cultural, trans-historil gay inty and terpretatns of same-sex sexual behavr vary wildly (see, for example, Herdt’s Same Sex, Different Cultur, DeE’s Capalism and Gay Inty, and Katz’s The Inventn of Heterosexualy). And geic, hormonal, and nrologil rearch has th far failed to show nclively that beg gay is blogil, let alone that is blogilly termed or that manifts genr non-nformy.
Still, many gay men, lbians, and their alli sperately want to prove that beg gay is blogil on the assumptn that showg so will mean that tolerant people will be forced to accept them. People who are agast homosexualy will likely jt re-fe their opposn. Instead of sayg that beg gay is a sful choice, they uld simply argue that is a disease, like ncer, or a formy, like a cleft palate.
Homosexualy is a disabily and if people wish to have elimated before they have children—bee they wish to have grandchildren or for other reasons—I do not see any moral objectn for g geic engeerg to lim this particular trend.