Timepass - Part II

Heres one very interesting post (atleast not the content, but more like in a general way)

The author 'Jedi' is another guy whose rss feeds pop up once in a while. Although not one of my more preferred haunts, his work, is sometimes very good.

http://onecrazeeworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/over-and-out.html

This time he writes a fairly verbose piece admitting that he is Gay, out & proud of the fact.

Apparently, hes reproduced an article he wrote for his college mag or something. There have been several gestures from friends, fellow bloggers - 'i m proud of you' ' i respect you more' etc.

This is got me thinking on several issues

- I havent ever met any openly 'gay' person (i put 'openly' on purpose) and or lesbians either, im pretty sure.

Sure we all have heard of the Elton Johns, Ian mckellens & Ellen Degeneres of the world - but never in the flesh - no real people i know admit to be openly homosexual.

I wonder how the stats look for others ! I mean like - if some1 is reading this post - can you think of 3 people you know (not point "Hey that guy who lives next door is, like, gay" - but KNOW the person) who are openly homosexual ?

- Ive heard of instances (hearsay, i have to admit) where lesbians are like bisexual - not openly homo - but like occasionally lesbian etc. But to be gay, im sure, one has to be like really 'oriented' that way !

- I consider myself pretty tolerant & modern / without attaching any credence to ones 'orientation' - but say, i meet Jedi in some party - without him knowing that i read his fucken blog once in a while - im sure to feel queasy - like - "hey, hes gay. thats strange"

I dunno if my kids will grow up in a world where there is a fucken check box titled 'orientation' in college entry forms or something !