while there is a huge part of me that would love to see this happen for at least a day, I know how horrible it could be. Comming to terms with being gay is not as easy as comming to terms with being left handed instead of right, or even having to learn to deal with a differant ethnic back round in a world still full of spoken and unspoken prejiduce.
Each of us must walk the through that door when we are ready, and no amount of pushing, badgering or bulling is going to make it happen any faster. Being "outed" is not the same as comming out and by being outed you take away personal choice. You force someone to deal with something that they are not ready, willing and sometimes able to do.
There are so many reasons why some one remains in the closet, and in my life time there have been many times I wish I could walk back in, and then maybe do it again but just a little less public. I live a very open life, no one questions if I am cause either they know my partner or they know of him. I am out and open across the board, but maybe had I made differant choices I might have gained more out of life than I have. No I have no regrets really, but there are days, when the clouds seem rather grey, when reality sits in and wonder, would it have been better to keep it just a little closer to my vest, to not have insisted that I live my life so much out and open.
Teenages and pre-teens have it even harder as they must fight not only the basic problems of school, but expectations of friends, family and often church. These are people are who have few options if outed, they have few places to turn to, few people to speak with and few chances to have a normal childhood if there is a such thing.
I know the point of this post was to be funny, and in that respect, I would say that it did make me laugh, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it is a good thing that something like this could not happen, to many lives would be destroyed and I believe that the suicide rate would increase to a level that is unacceptable. One suicide due to sexual orientation is to much, but imagine what the rate would be like if something like this actaully happened.
And no, we would not be accepted any more or less than we are now. Those who have a problem with it, will have a problem even if our numbers were 50%.