One Small Step for Gay Science, One Giant Step Back for Gay Rights?
This from the Mother Jones Blog
Scientists recently determined how to make gay fruit flies straight, and vice versa. The findings published in Nature Neuroscience this week conjure up disturbing images of big pharma manufacturing drugs that erase homosexual desire while the religious right markets them.
This discovery makes Gary Greenberg’s “Gay By Choice?” published in Mother Jones in September/October 2007 all the more relevant. The gay rights movement has been hoping science would vindicate it for far too long.
But what if science proves that gayness is not an immutable trait, or worse, finds a way to “cure” it? Isn’t it time, as Greenberg argues, “to find reasons other than medical science to insist that people ought to be able to love whom they love”?
If you woke up one morning and looked in the mirror and saw those images above, I’m thinking if there is a pill to keep me from looking like this I’m takin’ it!
I don’t give a shit if someone is gay, but I have never been able to figure out the whole weird circus clown drag queen fetish gay dudes are so fond of.
What part of the gay DNA makes dudes long for ostentatiously tacky outer wear?
Can that be cured? Just askin…
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December 13th, 2007 at 5:44 am
For mine own part, I don’t care if I was “born that way” or not. I just know that I am and I love the hell out of my partner of almost 11 years. I care even less of who approves of it either.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:50 am
BTW, I think drag queens are funny. I think their costumes are (usually) great.
I suppose it’s like watching America’s Most Replayed Police Chases or celebrity/idiot ballroom dancing. You know it’s bad, but you can’t look away.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Hey, I *love* drag-tacky. I’ve long espoused the belief that I am actually a drag queen trapped in a woman’s body. It’s all about exaggerated glamour and femininity. Hell, if you’d lived your entire life being told that you’re forbidden to play sports, but are instead confined to dominos and Monopoly, when you finally get the chance to play what you *really* want to, what are you gonna go out for, T-ball or hockey? Damn right, hockey.
December 14th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Why do you say ” or worse, finds a way to cure it”. For some their sexuality is a burden and torments them. Some never accept it. It’s not up to us to apply our standards and values to them and assume our experiences or equal. It’s our duty to get out of their way and let them have freedom of choice to alter their sexuality if that is their CHOICE. That is assuming such a technique is ever possible on humans. Yes i realize this applies both ways Choice to be gay , and choice to become straight.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Rafe, dude, I did not say the “find a cure” that tis what the article pointed out. I simply was focusing more on the flamboyance aspect. Some folks just overdo the gay thing.
It’s like what Mitzibel said above, some people once the become “free” or “liberated” feel they have to express themselves and sometimes go overboard.
I does not show well to uptight folks.
I truly don’t give a rats ass about gays and what they do. It is not even a blip on my “give a shit radar”
Dey don’t boda me, I don’t boda dem.