Editor,
Many males who yell "faggot" at me have sex with males or want to, but do not have the balls to say so.
Some males are terrified of their own repressed desires - scared that if they tried it once with a male, they would enjoy it so much they would want to continue getting it on with men.
One of America's best-kept secrets is the multitude of bisexual men. Why hide your romantic feelings in shame and fear? Why live a lie? Why be a discreet wimp?
I met a gay Anglo man who had been in the Navy. I asked him how it was being in the Navy. He said it wasn't bad, except for a married Chicano who picked a fight with him.
Later, the two of them happened to be at the same party, and as the night wore on, they had sex. As the morning approached, the married Chicano went home to his wife, but later returned for more sex. The Anglo man asked him, "If you had these feelings for me, why did you pick a fight with me?" The married bisexual man answered honestly that he could not let his friends know.
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If you have a male friend who gets off on telling anti-gay jokes and threatening or beating up gays and bisexuals, take him aside one-to-one and tell him, "You had better lay off putting down and persecuting gays and bisexuals. Some people will eventually wonder why you are barking so loud - what are you trying to hide? Why is this such a big deal to you?"
One evil excuse the European invaders used to justify their mass murder of American Indians was how common sex between men was within some tribes.
Malcolm X said, "The worst crime the white man has committed has been to teach us to hate ourselves" for being African-American. The worst crime most organized religion has committed toward us gays and bisexuals is to teach us to hate ourselves and hide our romantic love for persons of the same gender.
Life is too precious to fake. Romance is too precious to hide. Come out of the shadows of shame, lies and fear into the sunlight of truth and dignity.
Don Schrader
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