For the benefit of all, please help and instruct those who you suspect are in the closet to come out. It is vitally important so as to prevent things like this:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/before_he_hired_an_escort_reke.php
Rekers is just the newest case of the dangers of the closet and denying the truth about yourself. Time and time again, case after case, closeted gays are so put off by their desires they seek to destroy the lives of innocent people have more maturity to accept who they are and embrace it.
The clinical prescription of physical torture of 4 year olds for the subjective characteristic of "acting effeminate" is just about as low as you can go.
The more people know gay people, the more people will understand. Funny enough there is a magnitude more gay people than Jews in the US, but who is more accepted with full rights and protections? It's not even about minority at this point. It's about preventing torture of innocent children in the future and in the present.
And coming out of the closet doesn't require a cover page on People magazine or a spot on Oprah. It just has to start being comfortable in your own skin and fulfilling your desires as you see fit. If someone asks you, respond truthfully and proudly, not ashamed. What would be the worst that would happen? You would be tortured? That's what happens when you stay in the closet.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/before_he_hired_an_escort_reke.php
Rekers's research team continued the experiment in the family's home. Kraig received red chips for feminine behavior and blue chips for masculine behavior. The blue chips could be cashed in for candy or television time. The red chips earned him a "swat" or spanking from his father. Researchers periodically entered the family's home to ensure proper implementation of the reward-punishment system.
After two years, the boy supposedly manned up. Over the decades, Rekers, who ran countless similar experiments, held Kraig up as "the poster boy for behavioral treatment of boyhood effeminacy."
At age 18, shamed by his childhood diagnosis and treatment, Rekers's poster boy attempted suicide, according to Gender Shock, a book by journalist Phyllis Burke. Rekers, whose early experiments were the first to ostensibly demonstrate a "gay cure," resigned from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) last week, after it was revealed the gay escort had given him nude sexual massages. NARTH, however, stands by his science.
Rekers is just the newest case of the dangers of the closet and denying the truth about yourself. Time and time again, case after case, closeted gays are so put off by their desires they seek to destroy the lives of innocent people have more maturity to accept who they are and embrace it.
The clinical prescription of physical torture of 4 year olds for the subjective characteristic of "acting effeminate" is just about as low as you can go.
The more people know gay people, the more people will understand. Funny enough there is a magnitude more gay people than Jews in the US, but who is more accepted with full rights and protections? It's not even about minority at this point. It's about preventing torture of innocent children in the future and in the present.
And coming out of the closet doesn't require a cover page on People magazine or a spot on Oprah. It just has to start being comfortable in your own skin and fulfilling your desires as you see fit. If someone asks you, respond truthfully and proudly, not ashamed. What would be the worst that would happen? You would be tortured? That's what happens when you stay in the closet.