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Originally Posted by jay santos
A critical factor in this, IMHO, and maybe the most important factor is how representative this kid Troy's gay experience is of the entire gay community.
From the data points I've collected through life experience: media, literature, a few gay people I've known personally, pop culture, this seems to be representative of a very large aspect of the gay community.
If it is, then it seems very possible that the answer is to treat it like a disease (drug addiction, bulimia, alcoholism, sex addiction, whatever) and help people recover from it, not encourage them in their right to legitimize and mainstream it.
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Since you and I are not connected to this system of communities, we cannot get a handle on how accurate it is. We can know it is representative of an active component of that system or network of communities. The difficulty is understanding a system or network of communities which one does not understand organically.