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How well is your relationship going? Does your partner- • make decisions for you all the • treat you like an object? time? • expect you to conform to • control what you wear and do? stereotypes? • tell you who not to talk to or meet? • ask you for explanations but not • make you feel inferior? offer any? • insult you? • threaten to or get violent with you? • make you think you are stupid or • emotionally blackmail you with sulks going crazy? and threats? If any or a combination of these things is happening fairly regularly, you need to sort out your relationship fast. <strong>The</strong> longer it goes on, the worse it gets. HOMO, HETERO, BI? What do these mean? You may have heard of the terms heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. A heterosexual is a person attracted to people of the opposite sex. A homosexual Can you make out who is homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual? Of course, you can’t... 16
is a person attracted to people of the same sex (women attracted to other women are lesbians and men attracted to other men are gays). A bisexual is someone attracted to people of both sexes. Can gays and lesbians be cured? Since lesbian, gay and bisexual people are not ill or abnormal, they don't need to be "cured". <strong>The</strong>se are not abnormalities or perversions; they are orientations or preferences, just like being left-handed or right-handed. All people, whether they are hetero, homo or bi, have a right to live with dignity and in accordance with their preferences. Attempts to 'treat' them may succeed in temporarily changing sexual behavior but also can lead to emotional and other problems. What causes homosexuality? That question is as difficult to answer as 'what causes heterosexuality?' No one knows for sure. Some foolishly suggest that maybe a person turned lesbian because she had a bad experience with a man, or a man became gay because a woman mistreated him. If this were truly the case, then there would be many more lesbian and gay people, wouldn't there? Why do some homosexuals feel they have to announce their orientation to the world? Society encourages and conditions most people to be heterosexual. People who are different from the norm are often discriminated against. This discrimination may be blatant or subtle. Common ways of discriminating against people include: making fun of them, thinking of them in stereotypical ways (for example, all gay men are effeminate), isolating them, and not seeing them as full human beings. Many people say they don't have a problem with homosexuality as long as it is not flaunted. By this they mean that homosexual people should not talk about their partners or show any signs of sexual expression and so if some gays or lesbians do not hide their orientation, they are thought to be flaunting their sexuality. When 17
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