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Summary Of The Gay Option By Stephanie Fairyington

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Choices invade everyone’s brains daily, whether big or small. Choices can vary from whether to have a cookie or an apple to a career path. Some people want to have control over everything about them, so they want to choose their sexuality. Stephanie Fairyington, author of “The Gay Option,” identifies herself as being gay, so she brings an interesting viewpoint. She discusses the fact that being gay is a choice instead of a biological phenomenon. Fairtyington has a different perspective than someone who is not gay. Being gay gives her insight and she can talk from experience instead of watching someone or researching someone else’s work. This article was written in 2010, which is when the Equality Act first came out (stonewall.com). The Equality Act protects people who decide they are gay. This act wanted to make people equal no matter what sexual preference they had. The claim of value was used to show that being gay is a choice for everyone to decide. Gay people and their supporters say that being gay depends their genes, so then they will be told that it is okay (50). No one can object to something that naturally happens, but they can object to the choices …show more content…

For example, Fairyington told her mother that she would change herself if she could, but she did not really mean that. Where would anyone be “in society if we, as gay people, must practice a politics of pity to secure our place...”? (50). Gay people want to make a name for themselves just like everyone else. To have anything in this world, the first thing is respect. If no one respects anyone else, then nothing will get done. The idea of gayness being biological gives some people hope that they will not contract it like a disease. If it is a mental phenomenon, then there can be rulings to improve civil rights, but also there is no question about how someone got to this

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