You may have realized by reading this blog that I am gay. Yep, gay. I guess this technically means I am a minority since less than 10% of the population is gay.<\/p>\n
Well, last night in class I was relegated to minority status once again. Before handing back our second graded papers, the professor said that, as a whole, students received higher grades this time around\u00a0than they did on their first paper. He said only 10% received a grade lower than their first paper.<\/p>\n
…and that was me. I went from an A on the first paper to an A-minus on the second. 90% of the class followed the opposite trend. I’m starting to wonder whether I try to be different. It’s funny, I have an aunt and uncle (not blood relatives…just friends of my parents who I’ve always called aunt and uncle) who believe that gay people are gay just for the attention. They think we just want to be different for the sake of being different and to cause a scene.*<\/p>\n
I must admit, I like eccentricity and quirkiness in people. And I’d hate to be just like everybody else. But believe me, my sexuality is not what makes me quirky. My sexuality is not what makes me different. In fact, I’m rather boring. I don’t really drink, I don’t smoke, I’ve never done drugs and I’ve never even been drunk.<\/p>\n
HHMMMMM – that in itself makes me different (and yet another minority). I guess my aunt and uncle must be right.<\/p>\n
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*I’ve not had this conversation with them. This is a conversation they had with my brother years ago – before those damn gays made a big fuss about wanting equal marriage rights. Those gay selfish bastards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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