So I have only had one person in my life who ever was anything like a role model. Let's call him Travis. Now, Travis was a senior when I started high school. He was in drama. He was in forensics. He had a distinct style of dress.
He was fabulous.
He became a role model for me because he did everything I liked and he did them well. Years later, I used facebook to invade his privacy and I discovered he was dating. But Travis wasn't just dating any old person, no. He was dating a guy/boy/man/dude/male/not-girl.
That cool senior I looked up to as a sexually-confused freshman turned out to be gay (well, maybe bi, but in this environment, you would be very unlikely to ever act on any urge towards the same sex if you could find another way) was somehow poetic.
Here's the thing, though. I liked him chiefly because of his aptitude and love for the theatre, which I share. I also liked him for his fabulous fashion choices (I'm no fashionista, but I can appreciate). However, I liked him because we shared interests, and apparently we share a sexuality.
Now let's go to another theatre. Broadway. I couldn't find any statistics, but I think you'll agree that a lot of men in the theatre are gay, no? And musical theatre is stereotypically a gay passion, which has some basis in truth, no?
So, if all of these gay men have similar interests, does it not follow that homosexuality is somewhat genetic (which I know has been repeatedly shown, but some people refuse to see)? Aptitudes and interests are based in the genetic code, though of course they change based on how they are fostered. It seems to me, though, that if many gays love theatre, then some gay genes are also theatre genes (though, of course, not all theatre genes are gay, sad as that is).
So, yes, I did just make an entire post to present my speculation into what is more or less proven.
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