Hypothetical - If individuals are born with homosexual traits, would you...

heartfelt comments from you as always but I don't believe it to be as grim of a picture as you paint it. I believe you've said you are in the military. If so, then you of all people know that your folks just want you safe. We raised a nephew like our own and he went to Iraq when it was a real hot zone. We are one of the fortunate families to have our loved one returned in one piece but he saw friends killed so the term "one piece" is in the physical sense.

 

Perhaps not today; younger people and their parents are far-more accepting than 30 years ago. Things have changed. Still, the Baby-Boomers (my generation) live; many will go to their deaths rejecting and vilifying gays (as a practice in principle).

Yep. I am.

No. My parents wanted me STRAIGHT AND ALIVE. Those things are separate in their minds. Not that they would not have loved me as a gay child... but I wasn't going to risk telling them or hurting them. After all, before DADT was repealed... it was a grave risk telling people your "secret", whether brother, sister, parents whoever. Their slipping-up could possibly end your career. And worrying my parents with how I was doing as a "gay" man in the anti-gay military... would have been more than I would ever put them through.

Sounds like an awesome story. Interesting.

Yes, I can relate to that in certain ways. But in the days of DADT, he could have been returned because of his sexual-orientation. It was a fear that I pushed to the back of my mind for 25+ years of my military career. Looking back, I'm still glad that I didn't tell my parents (though I would have liked to).