Quote Originally Posted by frank47 View Post
Number 2) is far more problematic as gugi points out that maybe all these young kids were in hiding until it became "cool" to be gay. He may be right but I still claim the numbers support what I posited (again I'm just arguing from the other side being the devil's advocate) since anecdotally I don't ever remember seeing so many "gender challenged" kids in my younger (50+ years) days. All the guys in my neighborhood wanted to and did chase girls with a passion. It's hard to believe these guys, some of which I still know today and show no hint of being gender challenged, were and still are in hiding.
What numbers are you referring too?

It's pretty obvious that any gay person would hide the fact they are gay. Look what happened to Alan Turing. He was criminally prosecuted for being gay. Even after all the work he did to help win WWII.

Quote Originally Posted by frank47 View Post
Which leaves me to the real point that I don't think anyone really knows what is going on with this subject, shrinks included. From a lay man's point of view I think that the real issue with homosexuality is brought on by the militant subset that displays and pushes their behavior down everyone's throat. This causes a lot of people to dislike these people more for their outward behavior than what they do behind closed doors.
How exactly do they push it down anyones throat? By not hiding it? Why should they hide it? Do heterosexual people hide their sexuality?