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\u201cSome men want to kiss on other men and some women want to kiss on other women. Isn\u2019t that gross?!?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

This is, quite simply, how I was introduced to the existence of gay people. I was only seven or eight at the time. And no, it wasn\u2019t another kid who said this to me \u2013 it was an adult and a relative.<\/p>\n

In contrast to this, a friend recently asked my preschool-age daughter Sally who she wants to marry when she grows up. She responded by stating emphatically that she plans to marry her friend Alice.<\/p>\n

Bigotry \u2013 homophobia \u2013 is taught. It\u2019s not something we\u2019re born with.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>The same, incidentally, is true of racism. I remember seeing a picture of a group of young children, black and white, walking hand in hand. The caption explained that the parents of the white children in the picture were deeply opposed to school desegregation, to the point of participating in angry protests, but that the children didn\u2019t seem to mind their new schoolmates at all. For her part, Sally doesn\u2019t even seem aware of race yet. She told me once that she was white, but then she told me that her friend was purple and I was blue.<\/p>\n

Sexism, took, is not innate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Homophobia, racism, sexism \u2013 these things aren\u2019t natural and universal. They are taught.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"