see here). And when homophobic people come to the opposite conclusion-that homosexual desire is something we can choose-then they want to help us make the right choice, the heterosexual choice. Any sane person would choose heterosexuality (not so.
By implication, if we could choose, of course we would choose to be heterosexual. If homosexual desire is hardwired, then we cannot change it we must live with this condition, and it would be unfair to judge us for that which we cannot change. Yes, it’s true that straight people are more tolerant when they believe that lesbian and gay people have no choice in the matter. …Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights.” Under considerable pressure from lesbian and gay advocacy groups, Nixon recanted her statement a few weeks later, stating instead that she must have been born with bisexual potential.
As one horrified gay male writer proclaimed, “ just fell into a right-wing trap, willingly.
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In 2012, the extent to which gay biology had become a moral and political imperative came into full view when actress Cynthia Nixon, after commenting to a New York Times Magazine reporter that she “chose” to pursue a lesbian relationship after many years as a content heterosexual, was met with outrage by lesbian and gay activists. The problem with such statements is that they infuse biological accounts with an obligatory and nearly coercive force, suggesting that anyone who describes homosexual desire as a choice or social construction is playing into the hands of the enemy. Cynthia Nixon (right) and wife Christine Marinoni (left)