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Interesting commentary. I take it you liked the book. I knew you would come up with something interesting. Kids who have 'best friends' are told these days they are gay. Children are always developing--all the way into their 20s, and even then, beyond that. People used to know that. People either don't know that, or deliberately misrepresent reality because it benefits them to confuse children... to take advantage...

Today, just about anything that isn't stoic male conservative heterosexuality is called 'queer.' There is an article for just about every celebrity or famous person, author, actor, politician, etc, in history postulating that they were really gay. This pope was gay. That saint was gay. This leader was gay, that author was gay...etc...etc...etc. Because they had a friend. Liked the color pink. Wrote a poem. So on, and so forth. Unfortunately, for them, not everyone is gay, and not everyone will be. If there's one thing this all reveals is an insecurity no matter how much society 'accepts' them. Why do they need everybody and everything to be 'gay?' I don't have the answers. But none of these speculations offer any real proof, which people have a real problem looking up these days, before they believe the latest 'guess who was gay' article. It's fashionable.

15 years ago, the actor Thomas Dekker who played John Connor in the Terminator TV Series complained he couldn't get jobs after because 'he wasn't androgynous enough.' So he 'became' gay. Molested as a child actor, (appearing in Star Trek Generations and John Carpenter's Village of the Damned) he grew up heterosexual, having relationships with women until finally, in 2017 he decided he was 'gay.' Is he? Was he? Hollywood happened to him. Today, kids who don't even work in Hollywood will follow his path. Anne Heche ended up driving her car into a house and allegedly being burned to death in her final breakdown after years of sexual abuse and mental problems. She was on again off again lesbian. It cannot be healthy to offer to such fashionable status to those who have suffered traumas, I have no answers, but I suspect there is a weakness involved which is taken advantage of... and lest we forget there are always those who take advantage out there...

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