Gay Myths

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I think the ones that annoy me the most is that gays and lesbians "look a certain way" (which is typically over the top and very gender bending) and even a surprising number of gay men seem to buy into that (see enough post here at GS anyway saying the "only gay men all dress in drag" which goes to show they're only recognizing them as straight people do with all the others invisible to them...and natch, some gender benders are actually straight).

The one assuming sexual abuse is another common one. I can't tell if the two guys I barely knew (that I recall, and another asked after knowing me awhile) who asked me if I'd been sexually abused by my dad were just clueless who completely lacked socialization skills or if they were being passive aggressive against me for being lesbian.

'Course, don't forget that "most gays are pedophiles."

But some are so over the top that I'm amazed people believe them. One is that "because gays can't have kids" (yeah, right) that they therefore don't want anyone else to have kids and should have no say in society as a result (makes perfect sense to those who say things like this). And one I've heard a surprising number of times is that we "spread the gay virus." I'm still not clear if this is AIDS or a virus that turns people gay (so far they've been far too unstable for me to dare ask for clarification), but one even said we'd spit into people's food in secret to do it and another thought it should be acceptable to shoot someone gay drinking at a public fountain. One who thought along these lines warned me to "shoot to kill" any lesbians (he thought I was a heterosexual Christian) before they raped me to turn me gay (hope he didn't think raping lesbians would turn them straight...), and asking him what made him say that he told me of this on FOX News:




Btw, the organization (not gang) Pink Pistols is mostly gay men (and most women seem to be bi). Most women I knew who got pink pistols were typically very straight and narrow.

At least one church (that Rick Perry of Texas gets along with, or did years ago anyway) believes all gays are possessed by demons.

Though one man thought making Batwoman gay was a plot of the "gay agenda." I didn't bother to tell them that as such a move wasn't going to change the fact that it appealed to mostly a male audience and was probably done more out of male fanservice (and if controversy generated publicity and thus sales so much the better), which is to say it was pure capitalism that the man worshiped (not sure who the man loved more, Jesus or Mammon, but he definitely served both, or at least he appeared as he did), as the last thing I wanted him to do was allow his son to get the Batman comics and see if the boy remained a fan of Batman instead of Batwoman (and thus gay in his homophobic mind). And as much as I wanted to (for the laugh) I also didn't tell him of the long questionable tradition of Batman, such as this:





Perhaps most disturbing...