I like being gay.

[yardwork]

I'm a woman who is more attracted to women than men. I like men and all, but I am more attracted to women in all ways - emotionally, sexually, intellectually, spiritually. The word used to describe women like me is lesbians. There are millions of people like me and there always have been, throughout human history. Lots and lots of women who prefer women to men, and men who prefer men to women, and people who don't care at all about a person's gender and are equally attracted to men and women.

Just because some people have a problem with anyone who is different is no reason to suppose that I have a problem with myself. With all the things facing the world right now it is astonishing to me that anyone would be so preoccupied with my love life as to invest time and energy into discriminating against me and the millions of others like me. The people who do this are abnormal, not me.

It's abnormal to obsess about other peoples' love lives while ignoring so many immediate economic, social, environmental, and political issues.

It's abnormal to spend time and money discriminating against people on the basis of who they do and don't love while ignoring so many other important issues.

People who do this are crazy. That doesn't make me crazy. If someone believes that the sun rises in the west do you automatically assume that you are wrong to believe that the sun rises in the east? Of course not.

Because so many "experts" weigh in on the issue of my love life and the love lives of millions of others, I thought I'd help them out a little by posting a list of things they don't have to worry about anymore:

1. I am not interested in a genetic or medical "cure" for my "condition." I'm happy just the way I am, thanks.

2. I don't consider myself to be damned to hell. You're welcome to believe that if you wish, but your belief doesn't influence mine at all.

3. Nothing in my spiritual beliefs teaches me that my love for my partner is an abomination. On the contrary, my spiritual beliefs teach me that love is sacred and it is always right with God to express one's true devotion. Again, you are welcome to believe differently, but your beliefs are irrelevant to me.

4. I am pushing a "gay agenda." I do my part to promote gay rights in an effort to ensure that people throughout the world can love openly and freely. I do not sit quietly at home keeping my love to myself. I discuss it openly and I contribute time and money to pushing laws that provide all the same rights enjoyed by straight people to gay people. That includes the right to marry and the right to adopt. I am a gay rights activist.

5. I will never live in the closet. I will never live celibately unless I choose to do so myself. I will never "be quiet" and "stop making a fuss."

If you have a problem with any of this, it is your problem, not mine.