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Among the many benefits homosexuals (and bisexuals) bring society is break-down of gender stereotypes. All women and all men benefit when homosexuals push at the boundaries of the social expectations associated with their biological sex. Often because, unlike other forms of identity, our sexual preferences may not be detected as we often meander between the margins of masculine and feminine. We act as trailblazers for various modes of being within our biological sex. For example, the metrosexual straight male of the 1990s was pioneered by gay men and far more extensive advances for all women were pioneered by lesbians.
The opposite may be true. When biological sex is denied. When erstwhile homosexuals claim that our behaviours are indicia, not of the glorious variability and adaptation of the human spirit regardless of sexuality; but merely of category error – the error of being ‘born in the wrong body’ – and re-emergence of that homophobic sexologist term ‘sexual inversion’ – we narrow down the available modes of living for all members of our biological sex. We send an implicit (if not express) message to other homosexuals, especially the young, that they too have been ‘born in the wrong body’ – given their, likely, meandering between the gender norms – and to heterosexuals, (especially the young) that their own socially acceptable modes of living are more limited than perhaps they first thought.
If we love our heterosexual fellow travellers, and we must, then, let us rediscover what must be an inalienable truth: All men are masculine, by virtue of being men. All women are feminine, by virtue of being women. It is the behaviour in the biology that breaks down the gender norm. Masculinity and femininity do not yet, but must, as concepts, embrace the full range of human experience; so that G.I Joe and Barbie are as equally masculine as they are feminine. After all, G.I. Joe should be made to feel comfortable asking for help when he needs to; and Barbie should be made to feel comfortable solving her own problems when she needs to.
And so, a call to arms: let us homosexuals rediscover one of the many values we offer society. Let us be ourselves. Express ourselves in our natural ways that have always confounded the expectations of our biological sex, and in so doing, create new modes of living for all men and women.
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