Well, I'm straight, but frankly, if someone can find a relationship with another that satisfies both, then it's all good. I'm not sure if issues of sexuality mellow with age, but I'm thirty, unmarried, unattached, unloved and unsurprised, and don't really mind how someone else finds happiness.
I am, however, suspicious of people who wear their sexuality as a badge. Couple of years ago, I worked security at a student union where there is a vibrant gay and lesbian community. Actually, vibrant isn't quite the right word - militaristic might be better. Again, I'll just stress that I take no issue with anyone's sexual preference, but i do take issue at having my own tastes ridiculed - it's like a sort of reverse-snobbery. I don't think sexuality defines a person, and I don't think it should. As a case-in-point, at the university, I suggested starting a 'straight' club, and was immediately hammered with complaints from the gay-and-lesbian society, because obviously I must be homophobic.
Obviously I'm not - but I do think that if one's sexuality is used to bludgeon a lifestyle onto other people, one can't then claim the moral highground when bludgeoned back. At least, that's my opinion.
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