Gay 'cure'

What is there to "CURE"???

These screwed up people always think that there is something WRONG with Gay and lesbian people, or its a curable disease...

Such a joke.
They need to spend more time on figuring out a cure for cancer or AIDS.
Something WORTHWHILE, rather than bother with trying to fix something that isn't broke!

this thread tipped me over....

I had a similar discussion with a close family member.
She had made the comment to me "Well they think they are closer to finding the Gene that causes men to be gay"
Knowing that she said such a thing implies that they are searching for a "Cure" as the conservatives like to call it. Moreso, that she is watching for a cure for me....

It's a dirty rotten disgrace that people are putting up with this blatent display of discrimination.
People get hung up on the word "GAY". They stop dead in their tracks.

Well, I can tell you that I am Gay, and I can outperform, any comon Straight man on so many levels, that it makes the common straight boy a wuss.
(Gee...isnt a wuss also called....gay?)

It goes back to the old question, What Makes a Man, a Man.

Absolutely NOT as I am suffering from neither ailments nor illnesses at the moment.

It would be nice however if someone could find a cure for homophobia.

No way, I hear the side-effects are nausea and dry-mouth.

Too high a price to pay for my liking.

No way! Having been out since my middle teens, I find that I get away with things that most straight people wouldn't dare (I guess the straight people I have known figure I am a big old perv, so they don't expect much!)

I love being gay!

Uh... I had no idea we were still stuck in the year 1968.

No. However I would be 100% in favor of a pill, shot, or tonic that would "cure" heterosexuals of the asinine stupidity and bigotry that makes them believe that we should all be like them.

Oh wait... I have the answer! Burn bibles.

I love being gay too. I can be as serious as I want to be or totally outrageous and get away with it! The goal should not be to become straight, but to change the attitudes of the biggots etc. so that nobody would want to change.

If the biggots really felt that gayness was a disease, then they would, at the very least, feel compassion for us and not hatred. You don't see groups of people condeming people with MS or diabetes do you? Calling gayness a disease is just hateful attitudes disguised as religion etc.

Nova boy

Um, guys, I think kank84's use of quotes indicates his opinion of the words use. And we all use eye catching titles for threads to grab the attention of posters.

I think it is a good question, even if the concept is horrific. How many young men, or women, just coming to terms with their sexuality might opt for an easy way out of their confusion ("Aren't I supposed to be attracted to the opposite sex?"), isolation ("Who can I talk to about it?") and discrimination (I don't need to explain this).

This should provide us with an opportunity to see how much more work needs to be done before kids can come into their sexuality being comfortble with who they are intead of fretting over who they think they should be so that others can feel comfortable.

I think you make a valid point Gillette. More than one in this thread has said that they would definately not now but would have considered doing so when they were a lot younger.

By the same token dealing with that "tormented" period which modern society inflicts upon us can be an extremely character building experience for a lot of us. Unfortunately there are always some who cannot accept themselves for who they really are and that is sad.

I too thought that this was a interesting question.

I wasn't offended any by the word cure, maybe a different word could have been used, but it wasn't.

I voted no, I have never believed that there was a need for a "cure" for being gay, there are many reasons why some men and women are gay/lesbian, one is their upbringing, another one is being hurt so deeply from the oposite sex, some it's just a comfort zone, and though I never really believed this personally, but some are born that way.

when it comes to homophobia, it's taught to them, the same way racism was taught, and some kids just want to follow their parents foot steps when it comes to bigotry, it's what they grew up with, but certainly not all turn out that way.

I was brought up in a somewhat racist home, mostly from my mothers side, when I was a kid, there was some older black folks that would come by our house from time to time just to visit, my dad was more open to them than my mother was, she just tollerated them for the most part and was polite to them. but they were the nicest people you could imagine.

and as for all conservatives being homophobic, not all are, there are actually some liberals that are homophobic as well as racist, it's on both sides of the political spectrum. it will get to a point where gays/lesbians will be more widely accepted, sure there will always be some hated towards gays and lesbians, just as there are still hatred towards blacks and other ethnic people. it's just a fact of life, now people can focus all their attention towards the negitive shit, or the can take that same energy and focus towards the positive's.

pose the question to straight men.

if there were a pill to cure straightness, would you take it? and why?
would any straight man want to be gay?

100% of all straight men will say NO. why...?

as some straight men have said here on this very site, being straight has alot to do with the social circles you are a part of, part of what defines and identifies your straightness is the influence of your friends and family and how they "reinforce" and mirror what it means to be "socially" straight (even though you may secretly desire to suck cock)...in other words...society's standards judge you as more of a man if you are straight or just look straight even if you really aren't. because people automatically have more respect for straigght men by default, without question. many people see gay men as weak and submissive, a role traditionally reserved for women. so men will tend to lose respect for gay men, because they see them as a female equivalent.


sucks, but it's true for the most part.

just a thought.

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Apparently another side effect is to loose your dress sense.