Brokeback Teens
The recent New York Times article on the Cuddle Puddle at Stuyvesant High School unwittingly undermines the legal strategy of the Gay Rights movement. Because the article chronicles the sexual adventures of a group of metero-sexual students, you might think it would fall squarely in the pro-homosexual camp. Nonetheless, a close read of the piece completely dismantles one of the leading claims made by the gay rights legal strategists: the claim that sexual orientation is a fixed trait. You know the idea: People are born gay or straight. Only an ignoramus or a Neanderthal would even imagine that there is an element of choice, chance or change in sexual orientation.
But these heteroflexible kids in the Cuddle Puddle are messing around sexually because they are in an environment that considers it “cool.” An honest reader can't get very far into this article and still believe that all these kids are just doing what they were born to do.
The entire gay movement among high schoolers (or even younger students) is nauseating. Most of these kids don't know anything about themselves, yet they're being encouraged to make sexual choices. The "positive" results are, (1) the gay movement gets more adherents, and (2) maybe older gays can score with a teenager (ala, the priest scandal).
