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order to get a true sense of the positions held by homosexuals
I conducted three separate interviews with homosexuals.
Two females age 17 and 30 and one male age 23. How do I
know if they are really homosexuals, I don’t know,
but I don’t see why someone would want to lie about
that. None of them know each other at least not from what
I know and as far as I can tell they are all different types
of people, with different personalities. The one chain that
links them is that they are gay.
There are many different stances on homosexuality in the
U.S. right now, there are those that still agree with the
old medical stance that once said homosexuality is a mental
disorder and if you are gay there is a problem with you.
Then of course there is the biblical stance which basically
says if you are gay you are with the devil. One thing that
all three of the interviewees agreed on is that they are
all born gay, that is the way they are meant to be and nothing
is wrong with them. The seventeen year old says that she
has known she was gay since she was four, the thirty year
old has known since she was six, and the 23 year old has
know since he was four. It’s not only these people
either, while I surfed the websites it seems that most homosexuals
agree that they are born with there sexual preference imbedded
in them and it will never change. Some individuals counter
by saying that in order to make such decisions at such a
young age they must have been abused or something terrible
had to have happened for a child of 4, 5, or 6 to think
they are attracted to someone of their same sex. But you
might consider even young heterosexuals are aware of their
feelings at a young age. “Don’t tell me you
never been to a day care or a playground and heard the little
girls gossiping about how cute or ugly one of the boys are”,
the thirty year old said. Who am I to say that homosexuals
who they are attracted to at a young age.
Another thing that all three participants agreed on was
that up to this day they are still not attracted to members
of the opposite sex. Homosexuals pretty much have the same
answers to all my questions, at least these three did. Quite
the same as heterosexuals. They know what arouses them,
they get excited by a certain person and for the most part
they don’t want any part of what doesn’t satisfy
them.
I can go on an on, point for point on what they agreed and
disagreed on but I think I have showed about enough to prove
a point. There is however still one more thing worth pointing
out about the people I interviewed: All of them would like
to someday be married someday. The reason marriage is so
important for homosexuals is not different then the reasons
it’s important to heterosexuals. They want to be happy,
they want to share their love and most importantly they
want to have families.
As one of the interviewees said, “it’s all about
spending the rest of your life with someone who you can
care for and at the same time sharing a bond with that person
forever”, that doesn‘t sound much different
from the reasons I want to get married. It gets bigger for
some couples and for some it gets less important. For some
it’s all about receiving the same benefits of the
law that regular married couples get. All the rights guaranteed
to heterosexual couples should be guaranteed to them also,
WHY NOT RIGHT. These include health or life insurance benefits,
visiting a partner in a hospital, making decisions with
assets during the relationship and post mortem.
After speaking to all three of these people I think it’s
safe to say that they know that homosexuals know what they
want out of life, what they want out of a relationship and
who they want to be with. They also know that they want
to be married, and they want to enjoy the benefits of a
relationship the same way heterosexuals would.
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