Reply #83: It has to do with Gay Pride, mine and yours and everyone else's

[BillSam]

It's about having Gay Pride, about being proud of being gay (or bisexual), not hiding your sexuality in shame. It's about facing the world and saying -- and this takes courage and guts -- yes I'm a gay man and I'm not second-rate or ashamed or less of a man because of it.

True, he never said there was anything terrible about being gay. But HE HAS SEX WITH MEN and says he's straight. That's an impossibility, sorry.

You're right -- People have a right to label themselves anything they want. But as an Out and Proud Gay Man I am also entitled to have my say, and to point out if I think someone is being dishonest --and ultimately unfair -- to THEMSELVES.

Over the years I've helped many people accept themselves as gay. I was slammed for it in my days with the Gay Activists Alliance (not by my fellow members, of course, but my homophobes and self-hating homos), and I'll be slammed for it as long as I'm alive. But I can't help it. I truly love being gay, and if I want to help others feel that same joy, what's the harm?

It's just that I'm meeting so many people today who just can't seem to FEEL GOOD about being gay.

If you label yourself as straight or bisexual because that's what you genuinely are, that's one thing. But if you say you're straight because you just can't accept the alternative, that's another.

Understand?