Where are you on the Kinsey scale?

[Valley Oak]

The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person's sexual orientation by using a scale from 0 (meaning exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). In the Kinsey Reports an additional grade, listed as "X," was used for asexuality. The Kinsey scale was first published in "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948, Kinsey, Pomeroy, et al) and again in "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," 1953.

Kinsey scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale)

I am in grade 1 on the Kinsey scale.

Where are you?

Edward

[Barry]

I am in grade 1 on the Kinsey scale.

Given your other posts here, that surprises me!

[Valley Oak]

It doesn't surprise me that it surprises you. It will probably surprise everyone else as well. Keep in mind that I'm married to a woman (1991) and we have conceived a child together (family of 3 living in the same household) and that will put it back into perspective. My entire life, I knew that my orientation was different. Just how much so was not a question for me in the very beginning; I began to think about those things when I was in my late teens, early twenties, and then (without knowledge of the Kinsey scale) I knew that my orientation was hovering around what is represented by "Grade 1."

My activism in marriage equality is for mainly two reasons: having been a political activist my entire life, involved in many different issues, such as protesting a war, etc. And the other reason is having been a victim of deeply degrading attitudes from most people in society since I was a child. Those two factors in my life dovetail perfectly these days for the marriage equality fight. Now, being a supporter of LGBT rights is vogue in progressive communities but not the majority of Americans. The LGBT movement is easily within the top ten issues facing the country. This political wedge subject might even help elect more Republicans across the country this November. However, an electoral sweep of conservatives into power will be due to a variety of reasons.

But activism in LGBT rights for me is recent. Nonetheless, I did attend a pro LGBT rights march in Madrid, Spain in 1990 or '91 and a few other things but my involvement was scarce and the movement was far smaller anywhere in the world in comparison to 2010. Back in the 80s, the gay movement had far fewer battles going on, and winning few of them, and the events were more localized geographically. Also, the movement had been dealt a destructive blow with the assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978, when I was still in high school. But that tragedy added new dimensions to the movement. For example, the entire United States, if not the rest of the world, became aware of a double homicide of very prominent people in society: Mayor George Moscone of S.F. and Harvey Milk, openly gay and elected officeholder. This travesty helped bring LGBT and other issues closer to the forefront of social and political dialog.

But the light of victory for the LGBT movement is clearly within sight, although it will take years before ALL rights are protected. Give it another 10 years to see marriage or civil unions in most of the 50 states. Marriage equality is not the only fight; there is Don't Ask Don't Tell in the military and DOMA, a discriminatory federal law, and others.

Edward



Given your other posts here, that surprises me!