How many people have made a journey in their understanding of homosexuality?

[hedgehog]

I hate to use that word since to my ear it medicalizes a normal variation among humans. That's a measure of how far I've come. Growing up, I couldn't even comprehend the notion. After a while, I decided that if it was sinful, it wasn't my temptation and it wasn't my place to judge. Later I realized that we are all what we are, gay, bi or straight. It was an educational process that came about mainly because I met gays in my family, my friends and literature. (Never knock the power of a good story to reach and change someone.) My point is that ignorance is not the same as bigotry. An ignorant person can be taught, a bigot refuses to learn.

In a perfect world, people wouldn't need to be taught about homosexuality. We won't get any closer to a perfect world though, as long as we assume that no one who is anti-gay today can be taught better.