We are a unique minority.

[Tyo]

Some of us are religious and some not. We are Southern Baptists and we are Unitarians. We are Agnostics and Atheists. We are Muslims and we are Buddhists and we are Animists and every other religion or lack thereof that God and humans have managed to create.

We are Conservative and we are Liberal and we are Fascist and we are Communist. We are rich and we are poor and we are in the middle somewhere. We live in small towns we live in cities. We are organic farmers and software developers and sometimes both at once. We love ourselves and we hate ourselves and with luck we are just comfortable with ourselves.

We have roots in every continent on earth and we of are every kind of sub-mix and variation that can spring from that. We are the only born-into-the-world minority that can count in its numbers members of every race every religion, every nationality, every family. The thing that we all share and the only thing that we all share is an attraction to and sexual desire for our own kind.

We are unlike any other minority. What does this mean? There are questions here that I can't quite put into words. I'd be glad for some input.

[MuseRider]

1. You are unique

and unique is wonderful.

Sorry, I am tired and I just wanted to say something nice before I went to sleep.

Love you all. I celebrate your uniqueness.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. Provacative. Questions that should be explored. pondered.

[Fovea]

3. I see your point.

I do want to mention that I, as a left hander also feel that way sometimes.

Of course, hot left-handed sex doesn't seem to get as many people riled up, but in a lot of small ways, we swim upstream.

I don't say this to make light of your observations. I am just saying that it resonates with my southpawness, if that makes any sense.

[Tyo]

5. I think the analogy is spot on

Like gayness, left handedness knows no boundaries.

Hot left-handed sex.... Hmmm Sounds like fun. Might be time for my partner and I to take a walk on the wild side :7

[xchrom]

4. the thing that is really unique about us is

that we generally don't bring our parents with us into our ''minority'' status.

as gay folk -- we don't sit at grandma's knee and hear about aunt lucy's hot lesbian affair with the farm girl down the road as she walked twenty miles to school barefoot -- and in the snow.

it's about family history -- we create history when we come out -- and we die anonymous and much of our lives unknown and unsung when we don't.

[Tyo]

6. I've forgotten who said it but I heard it on Al Franken

You don't have to sweat about how to tell your parents that you are African-American or Asian-American.


"it's about family history -- we create history when we come out -- and we die anonymous and much of our lives unknown and unsung when we don't."


Exactly. How many of us have lived and died without our own families really knowing us?