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When I Was A Kid, And I Was Odd, The Default Assumption Was That I Was Odd, Not That I Was Gay. Now When A Kid Is Odd In A Greensburg, Gay Or Straight, The Default Assumption Is Gay.

Only Someone Obsessed With Sexual Fidelity To An Unhealthy Degree Places A Higher Value On Preserving The Ideal Of Monogamous Marriage Over Preserving An Actual Marriage.

My Dad And Mom Were More Like World War Ii-era Parents, Even Though It Was The 1960s, Because They Were Both Born In The '40s. They Were Young Adults Before The '60s Even Happened, And Married, And Already Having Kids. But By The Time We Were Adolescents In The '70s, The Whole Culture Was Screaming At Parents, "you're A Good Parent If You're Open With Your Kids About Sex." They Attempted To Be Open With Us About Sex, And It Made Them Want To Die, And Consequently, It Made Us Want To Die.

The Mistake That Straight People Made Was Imposing The Monogamous Expectation On Men. Men Were Never Expected To Be Monogamous.

The Only Way To Get Gay Issues Off The Front Pages Of Canadian Newspapers Is To Grant Gay And Lesbian People Our Full Civil Equality And Leave It Alone.