Monday, October 15, 2007

What are homosexuals for?-Andrew Sullivan

Sullivan explains and helps us understand what it is like to be homosexual. Throughout his paper, he truly tells his feelings and experiencences, as well as uses examples of others experiences to show what a homosexual goes through in life. I don't feel many come out and say they are gay until they are for sure they are gay. Once a gay man/female tells people he/she is gay, they feel a lot more free and feel like they are living, as apposed to keeping it a secret and living a lie as proven by Sullivan in this example, "but a t his funeral couldn't help but reflect that he had at least tasted a few years of life. He had regained himself before he lost himself forever." According to Sullivan "Homosexuals in contemporary America tend to die young; they sometimes die estranged from their families; they die among friends who have become their new families; they die surrounded by young death, and by the arch symbols of cultural otherness." This to me seemed like they die not literally, but inside because they go through their whole lives living as someone different from everyone else and by some not wanted. It is sad that those who are homosexual cannot have a biological child, and therefore cannot go through the experience of having their own child, something the two can share together. Although they can adopt a child, it is not the same as having your own and passing your bloodline on. "The presence of homosexuals in the arts, in literature, in architecture, in design, in fashion could be understood, as some have as a simple response to oppression." Alot of gay people are in these "safe professions" to hide and protect each other. I believe all of this to be true because these professions are swarming with homosexuals. Homosexuals have a much more difficult and different life from heterosexuals and his essay just starts to explaing all the things they must overcome.

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