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blocks that exist? The political and social realities have to be addressed—and soon!
    • A University Administrator (male, heterosexual)
    “On campus gay men don’t seem to be as visible as the lesbian crowd and they seem to be more afraid as well. I personally believe that AIDS/HIV has made it easier to become a lesbian for those even without the genetic propensity to do so. Because AIDS/HIV has become a female, heterosexual disease, the move to lesbian lifestyles has increased. A male without the HIV infection has a 19% chance of being infected when having unprotected sex with an infected female. Conversely, an uninfected female has more than a 45% infection rate if she has unprotected sex with an infected male. So, why expose herself to men when a lesbian lifestyle can protect her to a far greater extent?”
    • Thirty-Something Male Attorney (heterosexual)
    “My perception regarding the gay community has changed greatly since I was a teenager, probably because I had no awareness of gays during high school, but since then I have become friends with people who are active in the gay community. I appreciate that community and sympathize with the numerous struggles it faces such as discrimination and violence.
    “It is a fact that gays are getting more influential in politics. Many gay couples have substantial double incomes, with no children to support, meaning they can spend it on politics. It definitely shows and it is getting some desired results.”
    • Cole Wiley (formerly married gay)
    “You cannot legislate acceptance, but the more that ‘normal’ gays are seen by the straights, the more progress than can and will be made towards acceptance.”
    But, there is a vivid barrier to greater acceptance which seems overwhelming within the straight community and somewhat widespread among many gays. For simplicity let’s label it Gay Pride.
    • Bill O’Reilly , Outspoken Television Commentator (heterosexual)
    “I don’t care what anyone does behind closed doors, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone. But, I don’t want it thrown in my face. Why don’t we have bigamist parades or the S and M people have a parade?
    “Militant gays are setting back the case of gay rights by putting it in everyone’s face. I don’t want to explain same-sex kissing to my kids. Keep it out of my face. I have tremendous amounts of problems with gay Americans defining themselves as sexual people. They are not considering the rights of 94% of Americans. Gays have an alternative lifestyle.”
    • Female Financial Professional (heterosexual)
    “I’ve swung back and forth on the gay issue for years. In the beginning, I thought it was terribly unnatural and an abomination to God. As I got older, and actually met gays and lesbians, my tolerances began to change. But these individuals must give me the same considerations that I give them. They should pursue their proclivities in private as opposed to insisting on demonstrating their sexual preferences in public. Like marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade with a sign stating that you are gay. I don’t need to know that, nor do I want to.”
• Cole Wiley (gay)
• “At first I was extremely excited to watch the parades and to go to them. Now I question them.”
• Michael Isom (gay)
• “I’m not ashamed of Gay Pride events. Not at all. But I don’t need to throw it in your face. When I was younger I used to go because it’s a huge party, but I’m way past that now. That’s a sub-culture of our culture. We’ve come a very long way. Now, I would hug a guy in public, but I wouldn’t make out with him.”
• Former Sports Columnist (heterosexual)
• “The Bay Area, a number of years ago, got a franchise for a women’s pro softball team. I took my family to a game and we resented gay women necking and fondling in the stands. We never went back. The league folded.”
• Attorney (heterosexual)
• “I find it difficult to relate to radical gays, homosexuals who wear