I never really thought much about the homosexual lifestyle.

This is an issue that's been bugging me for many years, but I think that it's time I come out of the blue and acknowledge my own secret. I remember first bringing it up with my mother years back, and she's been very supportive of myself and helping me be honest with myself. It's time I go public with this information.

Guys. I need you all to bear with me here. I've been steadily growing into it, and it's gotten to a point where I don't think I can change myself, but just have to come to terms with my own personal preferences.

Here goes. My fellow watchers...I like dance music.

I know, it sounds absolutely horrible. Ian Van Dahl. Max Graham. Crystal Method. But the timing seems right enough. That's because I have a completely unrelated rant that stems from the fact that at this moment I'm listening to a dance music Internet radio station. As I'm being indulged in the other demographics that share my similar affliction, I'm becoming rather savvy of the culture we know as "the gays."

And right off the bat, I have to complain. I've been complaining about this for years, but now that I can finally find the strength to confess just where I've heard this crap, I can finally post this complaint.

Dance music caters heavily to the gay community. The RIDICULOUSLY gay community. Their advertising shows it. And while I can stomach the adverts for designer jeans, 24 hour gyms, gay dating websites, and...*hkkk*...lu-lu...luhhh...*huff*...

...Lubricants...*sigh*...

There's one selling point I can never get over. When are gay people going to man up and stop painting themselves as victims? I think I'm starting to understand where all this alleged gay bashing comes from. Zealous Christians...naturally. Emphasis on the "zealous" part. And the other oppression comes from within the gay community itself.

Imagine being told all your life that you're going to fail at life. Your mom, your friends, your teachers, without even knowing you just say "you fail." Will you fail? Very likely. Without the encouragement in place to push people on, we become the very people they forecast us to become.

So when the gay community has one of their "representatives" go on some tangent about how gays will always have to consider themselves as practitioners of some supposed alternative lifestyle, I wonder what the connotation of such stems from. What is the "alternative" lifestyle? The way they put it, it sounds as if it's something that cannot be merged into the mainstream.

But isn't that what tolerance is about? Bringing a lifestyle, ideologue, culture, or custom into a mutually accepted mainstream of thought?

So why is it that we have these "alternative" selling points? Why must these corporate entities continue to segregate gays apart from everybody else and create "alternative lifestyle" products? Alternate lifestyle restaurants? Alternate lifestyle outlets? Alternative lifestyle television?

What's with all these question marks? Goes to show how much this issue bothers me, because I can't really analyze. Just ponder why such a ridiculous phenomenon is actually happening. We have a group of people that try and try to become a part of normal everyday life. But at the same time, they wedge themselves apart by creating product lines that exclude other people from their culture, thus not allowing the amalgam of society to intermingle. Gay bars. Gay clubs. Gay clothing lines. I know we've got people trying to make a profit from particular demographics, but if I can't listen to this embarrassingly catchy radio station for thirty minutes without being reminded that there's some sort of "fighting back" that needs to be done against the man...just what is truly more important?

Some say it's identity. Others say it's acceptance. Yet we can't have it both ways.

So I continue listening. A straight man partaking in the upbeat rhythms thumping from a distant congregation of well-dressed Y-chromosomes. Yes. I listen to dance music. But if the conditions of the world prevent the gays from achieving acceptance, then I'll be amongst the other half-dozen straight males that pioneer acceptance achieving the gays.

I listen.

For world peace.

For humanity.

For Christopher Walken. [link]

Oh hell yes.