There are more and more people as time goes by, including gays. Even though there are more LGBT than there used to be, they're still outnumbered many times by those who aren't LGBT.

Whats normal?

You have a right to your view, but as far as I'm concerned, views like "being gay isn't normal and is a result of your diet" and "I think gays will multiply, outnumber straight people and take over the earth" deserve ridicule

Source: a gay person who didn't get gay by drinking gay water as a child and who has no plans to spawn millions of gay babies just to stick it to the heteros

Can this really be considered actually gay then, though? Half hearted attempt really...

What TS said really but like why would anyone be bothered if they were "outnumbered" by gays?? Are they planning on enslaving all us straights or what :laugh:

If anything, the number of people who come out might increase slightly (it's a small percentage of people that are gay and a far smaller percentage who never come out), and if that's the case then good! It doesn't mean there are actually more gay people. (I think if anything though it would be the number of Bi people that come out that would increase rather than gay people). And even hypothetically if the gays were to take over (:fc:) we can still reproduce (and want to just as much as any straight people)

(Don't tell her, gays)
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:joker: i love that youre probably being serious

I never said anything about taking over the earth don't be putting words in my mouth. Also don't be ridiculous, I don't think gays 'got' gay by drinking gay water, I have no idea why people are either born gay or heterosexual, just know they are. I'm making an observation of how I am noticing that there are many more gay people as there were in my younger years.
You have often in the past jumped on my posts and try ridicule what i have said you need to learn to tolerate people better and realise that not everyone thinks like you do. Oh and I couldn't give a stuff what someones sexuality is as long as they are decent law abiding people that will do me, you see, we are all just that, PEOPLE.

Do you not think it's more to do with people being more comfortable in coming out though Tozzie, and also discussing their sexuality, whereas before it was much more difficult for people? And also more representation of gay people in media etc... rather than there actually being more gay people?

Considering it was actually illegal to be gay in the not too distant past I'm willing to bet that is correct

I don't know Jamie, perhaps. My husbands uncle was a gay man who sadly kept his sexuality a secret until shortly before he died which I found very sad, he must have thought his sexuality wouldn't be accepted by us and that hurts because he was still Uncle Tommy no matter what his sexuality, we loved him.

Exactly. I find it impossible to believe that the numbers of people actually being gay (not just coming out) could fluctuate because of social influence... the whole 'promoting gayness' thing for example seems nonsensical to me. We'd see dramatic shifts in the numbers of gay people over time and across different cultures if that were the case and it just isn't (never mind the fact that everyone gay/bi/straight just knows that their sexuality isn't chosen anyway - so the people who make arguments like that must know that too (unless they're saying they chose to be straight).

Yeah that is really sad, I think a lot of people would have been in similar situations to him too. I know someone in his mid 70''s who's gay and only recently came out to his friends, it was a different time back when he was younger.

Todays society is trying to tell us we can choose our sex relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a fixed gender. I can't get my head round that. :shrug:

Do you mean like gender fluidity? I think with something like that noone is really saying they are choosing their biological sex, but they see gender as being different to sex and believe they can cross between both genders (I think, tbh I don't fully understand everything to do with that either, but it seems to be more about gender expression, rather than actually choosing what sex to be).