A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Straight people are everywhere!
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
Men were never expected to be monogamous.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
