The Faggot FAQ

It's pretty much unavoidable: all homosexual people at one time either were confused about their sexual orientation or were forced to pretend to be heterosexual or both. The question that is generally asked is "why?"; however, it's a lot easier to answer the question "how?" first. Maybe we ("we" being society, the media, and the government as a whole) are jumping the gun when we debate whether homosexuality is a genetic trait or a cultural one, whether it is possible to not be gay or if it's a sealed fate. I'm a fan of the scientific method, myself, and it seems like the scientific thing to do here is to start with the basics and work your way to the "why". "Why", after all, is only a function of what, where, when, and how.

WHAT is a homosexual? A homosexual is any person who is attracted, physically AND mentally, to a person of the same gender. WHERE does homosexuality occur? Whether hormonal or genetic or cultural, homosexuality can logically be concluded to occur within the brain. Where in the brain is still up for debate. On the level of society as a whole, homosexuality occurs within about 6% of any given population, according to most statistics. This percentage occurs across race, ethinicites, and geography. WHEN does homosexuality occur? Once again, most studies have concluded that homosexuality is decided since the onset of birth; a five-year old boy is gay, even if he hasn't exhibited it yet.

Which leads us, oh so conventiently, to the HOW. HOW are we homosexual? We are homosexual by being attracted to the same gender and by having sexual intercourse with any person of the same gender. When you cut it dry, homosexuality is pretty dull. The WHY can simply be answered like this: homosexuality is a result of the variation across the human genome, inevitably resulting in a statistical portion of the population to be attracted to members of the same gender.

No political grassroots movement here. No discrimination. No repression. See, there's a difference between being homosexual and being gay. Homosexuality is biological, statistically inevitable. Gay is cultural. Gay is political. Gay, queer, GLBT, that's just another group, another subsection of society. So, tonight, before I go back to reading articles and studying for tests, I ask my fellow members of Queeria a question: are you gay? or are you just homosexual?

Sincerely,
Your Spy