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Converting the masses, of course.

I gotta admit, I do hate the idea of converting people to gay or str8 or whatever. The logic goes if u can be converted one way, u can be converted the other.

@Mateo406: I think the idea is usually used as a joke here, especially as part of the gay agenda.

I don't think you can really change someone's sexuality, but someone can discover there's more to their sexuality than they thought. Since being straight is normal and expected by default in society, this discovery usually goes in the direction of being bi or gay.

Once I make this post I'll have claimed an entire section of the Wintreath forum to myself! (sorry)

@Mateo406: I think the idea is usually used as a joke here, especially as part of the gay agenda.

I don't think you can really change someone's sexuality, but someone can discover there's more to their sexuality than they thought. Since being straight is normal and expected by default in society, this discovery usually goes in the direction of being bi or gay.

I feel like a big part of the "converting str8 guys" and indeed, reparative therapy exist because a great deal of people still look at sexuality as a binary. Like when people talk about Gay guys who choose to change and go straight, well, they're either lying really well to themselves or they had some instance of interest in the opposite sex already. And I think the same goes for straight guys who "convert." A lot of the ones I've talked to say it wasn't so much becoming gay, as much as it was becoming okay with interest in the same sex within themselves.

I feel like a big part of the "converting str8 guys" and indeed, reparative therapy exist because a great deal of people still look at sexuality as a binary. Like when people talk about Gay guys who choose to change and go straight, well, they're either lying really well to themselves or they had some instance of interest in the opposite sex already. And I think the same goes for straight guys who "convert." A lot of the ones I've talked to say it wasn't so much becoming gay, as much as it was becoming okay with interest in the same sex within themselves.

That seems right in my experience. In a way I understand, because it's easier to label something as binary...being either straight, gay, or something in between (bi). But as I've gotten older and explored my sexuality more, I've come to realize just how limiting those options and labels are...at this point I think everyone's sexuality is unique to them, and trying to summarize it in a word or even a few words is self-limiting, though I understand the need for to try to summarize for a conversation.

More broadly, I think it comes from the fear some may have had that if their sexuality changes so would their entire personality, like if a guy were to become gay they'd suddenly be into 'girly' things and become flamboyant. Hopefully both the mindset and the stereotypes are fading away now that many people actually know someone in the LGBTQ community.

So how do all my fellow queer folks feel? How y'all getting on with things?

Truly, fabulous

Glad to hear it. Any particular reason for such fabulosity?

I'm the opposite.  But yes why fabulous?

Glad to hear it. Any particular reason for such fabulosity?

Things are going very well here. And new opportunities arise

Glad to hear it. Any particular reason for such fabulosity?

Things are going very well here. And new opportunities arise

Glad to hear it! Keep on feeling those good vibes!

I'm feeling pretty good, myself. Got into drag for the first time in months last night and was pleasantly surprised with how well it came out.

Glad to hear it. Any particular reason for such fabulosity?

Though I am gonna steal the term fabulosity

I'd prefer you steal Fannypacktastic but that works just as well I suppose.

No, that one doesn't sound as good. Though ill give it few tries just to see how it goes