Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I think a lot of you are crazy.
Though AIDS may be back on an incline among YOUNG homosexuals and those performing homosexual practices, it is because there are a lot of young people that have started to not care about AIDS for some reason.
Most of the gays I know are HIV- and only practice safe sex. However, nearly all of the gays I know are 20 or over, and are much more mature and responsible than teenagers (here and I'm 19, and practice safe sex; many would confuse me for a 30 year old with things that I say and do in real life :-/). I don't really even want to get into discussion about all of the tradition gay fight stuff, such as whether some were born with it, etc. I have had no doubt in my entire life that I'm gay, and have tried to change. No idea how I can change. I've made a thread about it here before. I was not successful in changing. Period. As for laws against homosexuality, I would likely seriously entertain the thought of suicide if it were illegal for me to be gay or perform gay practices.
Indeed it is stupid that people would stereotype an entire school, entity, or geographical area because of the majority or minority there, such as some people in this thread are doing. It's also stupid to stereotype gays; there is no "gay" as many people believe there is. While I'm out to all of my coworkers, I also work with hundreds of people that have absolutely no idea that I am gay. One gay man that happens to work with me occasionally didn't know that I was gay until he found my profile and picture on a website. Point? Stop stereotyping.
As for hate crimes and gay assaults: I believe that gays should do all that they can to protect themselves, be it joining gun clubs, getting CCW permits, talking in an open forum with other people, whatever it is that will solve problems at the second. I personally believe that owning a gun would be beneficial to many gays because there are those precious few minutes between when you might call the police and when they would arrive - and a lot could happen in that time.
Some links:
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://geekswithguns.com/" target=blank>
http://geekswithguns.com/</A>
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.pinkpistols.org/" target=blank>
http://www.pinkpistols.org/</A>
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.ceasefear.org/" target=blank>http://www.ceasefear.org/</A>