Letter to the editor:
Blood drive ban defends only part
of the homosexual community
Issue date: 3/20/08 Section: Opinion
As a homosexual male, I find blood drive banning based solely on the commitment to nondiscrimination policies, as they pertain to gay rights, a dangerous road to travel down; that the definition of homosexuality is being reduced to one of sexual intercourse.
Long before I ever kissed a guy or went out on my first same-sex date, I knew deep in my soul that I was homosexual, never entertaining thoughts of myself as heterosexual. Many years and relationships later, this belief of who I am has not changed, regardless of my never having intercourse with another male. Why should the act of sex make us who we are? What about those of us, heterosexuals or homosexuals, who have been waiting for life partners or our soul mates? Are we something less of either category?
I find it offensive that my culture, my lifestyle, my very being, has been reduced to what I choose to do or not to do in the bedroom by SJSU's decision that a "male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once" is equal to being homosexual. This new definition of who is homosexual destroys in one quick swoop much of the work done over the last 40 years.
-Moose Edmunds
SJSU junior
Long before I ever kissed a guy or went out on my first same-sex date, I knew deep in my soul that I was homosexual, never entertaining thoughts of myself as heterosexual. Many years and relationships later, this belief of who I am has not changed, regardless of my never having intercourse with another male. Why should the act of sex make us who we are? What about those of us, heterosexuals or homosexuals, who have been waiting for life partners or our soul mates? Are we something less of either category?
I find it offensive that my culture, my lifestyle, my very being, has been reduced to what I choose to do or not to do in the bedroom by SJSU's decision that a "male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once" is equal to being homosexual. This new definition of who is homosexual destroys in one quick swoop much of the work done over the last 40 years.
-Moose Edmunds
SJSU junior
Viewing Comments 1 - 1 of 1
Liberty11111
posted 4/15/08 @ 8:46 AM PST
4-16-08 Today is the second day that I hear our school's name dragged through the mud on the radio due to our ban of on-campus blood drives. Thanks, President Kassing. (Continued…)
Post a Comment