Perks of being Gay, Bi or lesbian?

No need for birth control. There WILL NOT be any accidents.

 

I've yet to find any. That doesn't mean I think it's disadvantageous to be gay bi or lesbian, but I don't really see many perks either.

 

I can perhaps empathize more with those of any gender since I don't feel I'm held back by a monosexual attraction?? I also feel comfortable doing things stereotypical to either end of the "traditional" dualistic view of sexuality - and thus I am comfortable being free of any stereotype altogether.

I have always felt a strong desire to see justice upheld for minorities in any given society, even before I admitted my sexuality to myself. So I guess my drive for creating a better world through equality and diversity is even stronger since I am part of a minority.

 

being bi gives more option for people to be with. i never really cared about peoples sexuality anyway before i discovered mine, but i guess it gives you more of an open mind to who people are and who they want to be and why that is absolutely fine!

 

I fail to see how any of those do not apply to straight people.

That's not a very healthy attitude to take. Sexual orientation doesn't affect intelligence. I can understand where you're coming from with more liberal though that's still playing with stereotypes, but smarter and better educated? That's verging on bigotry.

 

I think there is a correlation between being LGBTQ and being smarter/more liberal.

For example, in the last U.S. presidential election, heterosexuals split evenly 50-50 between Obama and Romney, but among LGB people 76% voted for Obama while only 23% voted for Romney. So LGB people are definitely more likely to make smarter decisions.

Perhaps people who go through the process of realizing they are LGBTQ are more likely to develop critical thinking skills, and also are shaped by their minority experience.

A child born to uneducated white conservative redneck parents in rural Mississippi will probably grow up to be an uneducated white conservative redneck in rural Mississippi. But if that child grows up to realize he is gay, he suddenly feels alienated from his own background and community, and is more likely to consider other backgrounds and points of view. Seeing himself suddenly as a minority, he is more likely to sympathize with the plight of other minorities, racial or ethnic, rather than simply be comfortable identifying with a privileged majority without even thinking about it. He is much more likely to have a progressive worldview and support liberal politics that respect the human rights of all.

His sexuality serves as an impetus to get out and see the world, to move to a big city to experience a more cosmopolitan environment where he will be accepted. Sexuality also serves as a motivation for gay youth to want to go away to university, to escape bigoted small-town life and be exposed to education and different points of view. The gay son becomes an accomplished fashion designer in New York City or college professor in Boston or actor in Los Angeles, while his brothers and sisters never leave the family farm.

This is just an example case, but I think people are underestimating the impact being LGBTQ can have on the trajectory of a person's life in matters far beyond who they have sex with.

 

It's not that voting for Obama means one is smart; it's that voting for Romney is a likely indicator of stupidity and ignorance.

Though I find it demeaning to suggest that Obama's positions on "gay issues" are the only reason LGBTQ people voted overwhelmingly for him over Romney.

Liberalism, and left-wing politics more generally, are correlated with intelligence. Whereas the right-wing conservative worldview is rooted in small-mindedness.

Liberalism champions individual rights, including full equality for LGBTQ people, whereas if conservatives had had their way, it would still be illegal to even be gay, never mind marriage equality. So excuse me if I conclude that one of these worldviews is objectively superior and a sign of greater intelligence than the other.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for those involved in doing the vital work of farming and producing sustenance for the human population.

However that does not mean that the average provincial in a rural area is exposed to anywhere near the level of diversity of people and ideas that a well-educated city-dweller is.

In any event, that phrasing on my part was largely anachronistic anyway, since the 'family farm' is dead and hasn't existed for generations in the United States, replaced by corporate factory farms. However it was just an example.

The point is that a gay child born is far more likely to go out and explore the world and be exposed to diversity, rather than be comfortable staying in the trailer park they grew up in with a Confederate flag on their trailer.

 

Recently I gave my husband a big block engine for our mud truck and he said a few things about this topic that surprised me. He told me that at 37 he is the happiest he has ever been because he has me for his wife-e-poo as he puts it. He also listed what he felt were the extra perks he never got with a cis-woman. I have no crazy hormones and am happy from sun up to sun down, I put out anytime he wants any day he wants, I give him the best BJ's anytime he wants (2 to 3 times a day is average for him) happily and don't gag or fuss about his cum but rather enjoy it which thrills him, I can fix things, I am also his best friend and don't nag him. He said a lot more, but the rest had to do with my role as the woman in our relationship and could apply to any traditional woman. His other women had never followed his dreams, but rather tried to change him to what they wanted.

So as others said sex, sex, sex, sex, no hormones, can relate to one another, best friends. That about sums it up! June

 

Definitely learning to be more open minded. You see things from lots of different perspectives and honestly dealing with all the issues that I have I feel that I have developed a more open and worldly view rather than being contained because something isn't a societal norm. It helps you be more empathetic to people and their lives because you kinda don't see anything as being abnormal anymore. Especially when society alienates you because of who you are. You don't want to do that to anyone else.

 

I think being LGBT lets you live outside the box and that can be both the biggest plus and minus..

 

The facts are what they are, I don't see any reason to keep pretending that both sides of the left-right divide are equally valid, and that people on both sides are equally intelligent. Conservatism is rooted in stupidity, ignorance, fear. And the research backs that up.

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes

Gays are more likely to be liberal, and thus more likely to be intelligent compared to the general heterosexual population. QED

Family farms ARE dead, sorry. Corporate factory farms make up about 99% of American farming at this point.

If you prefer conservative rural life, that is your prerogative, my opinions are what they are. Some prefer rural life, some prefer urban life. I don't have any issue with rural people, but I do have a problem with the bigoted conservatism that tends to thrive in rural areas. (However even then there are exceptions; for example, in New England. Vermont and Western Massachusetts are very rural areas yet at the same time very progressive and tolerant societies.)

 

I think it has made me more open minded. Honestly, if I wasn't gay I might be homophobic. I really don't know. If I was straight, with my background, I could have gone either way with my views on homosexuality. Also, if one of my kids is gay I know to react with love and acceptance. So that is a benefit to them. And no matter what they are I can teach them to accept others regardless of how they are different.