I'm new here, just figuring my way around.

I have a loved one who never exhibited signs of being even remotely gay before the individual lost a loved one, tragically, and then immediately after, this person went full throttle homosexual, shockingly.

yah...sure.... whatever....

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lol!

The full throttle bit was a dead giveaway.

I'm hardly an expert, but here are some guesses (note: I'm assuming the individual is male for ease of sentence structure):

Possibility 1: He freaked out and is trying to be someone he's not because he can't stand being himself right now. (knowing nothing more than what you've told me, this one strikes me as the most likely)

Possibility 2: The sudden shift in his life (and possible confrontation with his own mortality) prompted him to stop pretending to be straight (and perhaps he's over-enthusiastic about it due to the novelty).

Possibility 3: The sudden shift in his life promted him to do some heavy soul-searching, realize, among other things, that he had been denying/misinterpreting his feelings towards certain other males his whole life (for any number of reasons), and decide to embrace those denied longings (perhaps over-enthusiasticly due to the novelty of it).

Possibility 4: A secret government organization is testing their "gay ray" and selected him as a test subject because the recent upheaval in his life would give people plausible reasons to explain away his sudden shift in behavior so they wouldn't suspect clandestine intervention.

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This board is starting to have an unusual, and disturbing, increase in interest in being gay.

I'm just saying.

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Doesn't suit your agenda huh? Why couldn't it? There is no evidence to rule it out as a possibility.

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Yeth, I jutht bumped my head and now I feel all giddy and gay, my writhtsth are all of a flop and I have thtarted to lithp when I talk an minth when I walk.

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What's this "now" shit?

Shall I point out that talking with a "lithp" does not extend to your fingertips?

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It thertainly doeth, my writhtth hover limply over the keyboard and thtroke the keyth in a lithping effenate way.

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I suspect there are plenty of covertly gay people who love their spouses and who remain in their heterosexual unions because of that.

When that spouse they love dies, they come out of the closet.

It's not actually all that rare an event.

hey you just dropped your soap.


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ninth


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wassuo wit dat?

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Having a gay brother and knowing lots of gay people, no, trauma has nothing to do with it.

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It is a female, actually, young.

She was a late bloomer, I remember her being distraught for some time that she felt unattractive, never having even been approached by the opposite sex yet and nearly graduated from school. She voiced being upset--but denies it now--that her friends all had boyfriends, etc., a common thing...

Her (year younger) sister had always been her best friend, her closest everything, much as they fought. She was her world in a way, in spite of many other siblings.

Well, her sister died tragically in a car accident that nearly took her lil' brother, too, and I swear to God, she Immediately went crazy gay.

Things remembered regarding her sentiments toward the opposite beforehand have all been denied when she was addressed with them by some...

And, personally, I think an indoctrination of the youth goes on to some degree, the lonely adolescent is vulnerable. I believe that indoctrination to be both by perpetual accidental forces and purposeful, willful ones.

--Anyway, she was approached by a pretty hardcore lesbian while away at college and went for it.

I think she was drawn into by accident..?

Thanks for trying to help--and to everyone else, sorry I didn't post the thread proper--I do worry about divulging any of it online, so I was just a little nervous about that.

true! the gay issue gets used in politics just to divide people.

on these boards, i suspect it's nothing more than baiting to incite.

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I hoped to have a serious discussion, if only for a minute about it, I've been bugged about it for a while.

As for the board getting strangely preoccupied, who posted to me, without any substance behind their motive? That is strange.

I was moved to post by a concern, not fear-mongering.

Anyone sitting primed to pounce on homophobes is taking a Strange interest, unless they're gay themselves.