What are homosexuals For?

Andrew Sullivan talks about in his article about being gay and how it is a hard thing to deal with in this society. I agree with this because we have a heteronormative culture and our society has always looked at being homosexual has being unusual. Most families race their children to like someone of the opposite sex. Sullivan points this out too. “This is how the world can seem to many adolescent homosexuals; and I was no exception. Heterosexual marriage is perceived as the primary emotional goal for your peers.” So when someone likes another person of the same sex then it is looked down upon in society. This is because they are breaking the heterosexual norm and breaking norms cause a reaction within society. He brings up a point that I had never even heard about before and that is, “So many homosexuals find it essential to move away from where they are before they can reign themselves.” I think that this makes sense because they would want to get away from the old feelings that they had associated with that other place. He says that gay people sometimes try to have a kind of cover from society because society looks down on being gay. It is because of this that gay people may hide their sexuality preference from others because society will make it harder for them to survive because being gay is looked down upon. “But to live as an adult homosexual is to experience something else again. By the simple fact of one’s increasing cultural separation, the human personality begins to develop differently.” I think this maybe how gay people get their stereotype. It is partly from their social separation because it is harder for gay people to be socially accepted. At the end of the article Sullivan talks about the role of gay people in our society and he is trying to figure out what it is. “Or perhaps their role is to have no role at all. Perhaps it is the experience of rebellion that prompts homosexual culture to be peculiarly resistant to attempts to guide it to be useful or instructive or productive.” I don’t agree with this because I don’t understand why he thinks gay peoples roles should be different then straight peoples roles in life. Gay people don’t have to go out and protest. They can but that doesn’t have to be their primary goal in life. I think they should primarily focus on being a person no matter what their sexual preference is.