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canuckjacq:

Just a blog post about all the bullshit surrounding what Cynthia Nixon said about how she chose to be gay. 

Excerpt:

You know, if someone turned to me tomorrow and said, “Hey, great news, Jacq, I can make you straight,” I’d punch their fucking lights out. I’m happy being queer. I’m not very happy with the world around me, but I’m happy with me, and my marriage and my life. Why would I change that? I wouldn’t care if they had empirical evidence of an out and out “cure” for the gay. I don’t want it. I’m making that choice right now. Nothing to do with how I was born. Everything to do with not thinking that being queer is a bad choice to make.

Reblogging for reasons and stuff. 

Biological determinism can bite me.  Insisting that gay people are “born gay” caters to the idea that no one would choose this, because it’s intrinsically awful.  And, of course, no one chooses to be harassed and discriminated against, but what’s so awful about being LGBTQ?  Nothing.  It doesn’t make you a bad person, you don’t go to hell, and the negative consequences are external, from a fucked up society and power structure.  I don’t really think I chose to be queer, but if I did, would that really be so bad?