Did I miss something? Gay is a lifestyle?

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I'm not sure if I was raised improperly or inefficiently but I always thought that gay referred to homosexuality. My logic might be flawed here but homosexuality is....a sexuality. Just like heterosexuality is a sexuality....not a lifestyle. My entire life does not center around who I sleep with. I do not dress based on my sexuality or pick hobbies, friends or a career based on it. So excuse me if I am wrong but why, then, is it assumed that there is a certain way of living attached to being gay? And if I am wrong then is there also a heterosexual lifestyle? Am I a gay living the wrong lifestyle???
The Snappy Miss Pippi Von. I feel the need to give you special commendations for the use of the word vapid. AMAZING word and it's not used nearly enough.
 
The gay lifestyle is acting how gay people act on TV. It's how many straight, bisexual, and gay/lesbian people alike believe you should behave. The heterosexual lifestyle is anything that isn't gay, unless it involves being the female BFF of a gay man or men watching lesbian porn.

If you are a gay man and you're not hanging out with girls at the mall, spending your time with interior decorating, or speaking with a lisp, you're not a part of the gay lifestyle, and you are a 'straight-acting' gay man.

If you're a lesbian, you're not a part of the gay lifestyle if you don't wear plaid, watch Ellen, or spend your time listening to Tegan and Sara in coffee shops.

If you're a bisexual woman, you must be gay or straight depending on the relationship you're in. If you date more women than men, you're really a closeted lesbian. If you date more men than women, you only like women when men are paying attention to you.

If you're a bisexual man, you don't exist.
 
Exactly right. Being gay/homosexual is being attracted sexually and romantically to the same sex. Period.

And to add to Pippi's response, there are even straight people who fit that description, minus the gay bit.
 
I love being gay - probably just because I love everything about females and I am one - but it's just an orientation, not a lifestyle. Unfortunately, a lot of gay people (especially men - I hate to generalize) feel that they have too fit into a stereotype so that they can feel as if they are part of a group. I guess being gay can be lonely. Actually, it is. I think that's why people try too change it into a lifestyle. By looking at me, you wouldn't ever guess I was a lesbian.
 
I know! Why cant those stupid ignorant people get it through their thick heads? Sexual orientation is predetermined before birth. No matter how many times I say it there all like "LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU!".
 
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