Re: Would you allow your son to go to camp where there were openly gay members? [W:19
Who said anything about and adult.....I am talking about openly gay boys..............
My boyfriend was not openly gay in scouts, but he was gay, not sure what difference openly has to do with it, but he did share tents and shower rooms with other boys, as did I. Not sure what was bad about that, true I did find several of the boys I wad in scouts with sexually attractive but I want uncontrollable. I never said anything to them except for the one other gay kid I knew in scouts, he wasn't open either.
Believe it or not, I didn't make everyone around me gay or bi.
Again navy, proximity to gay men and boys doesn't make straight boys gay. If it does, then the boy that became gay wasn't really that straight in the first place. Further more if the only reason you think you are straight is because you weren't around gay people growing up, you aren't straight.
I was in the program as a youth because I didn't realize that my sexual attraction to my gender was really gay or bi. I spoke to my parents about it, but they said that there was nothing different about me, everybody feels that way sometimes. Then as an older teenager I had a friend that we messed around with each other sexually my mom caught me pulling on his naughty bits, and she and my dad explained that its normal and heterosexual to sexually " experiment" with in my own gender, that most boys do that. Being bi I still liked women, so I figured they were right. Then after breaking up with the last woman I dated I feel in love with a bus boy at this restaurant, I was 27 before I realized I was bi all along.
The funny part is that is not that abnormal of a story, and other boys that are similar to me are and always have been in the program. And sexual interactions occur between the boys all the time, they occur at school, on the football teams in the Navy.
Basically put if a boy is gay, he is gay, I won't claim that it is necessarily something you are born with, but it is something that happens very early in life, in my prepubescent, in fact every gay man or boy I have ever met first realized they were gay in their prepubescents.