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AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT IS CONFUSED?

When I was growing up things were easy. You were either gay or straight… maybe bi. But that was it! Whatever you were – that was it! There simply was no confusion. Most straight people hated gays. Most gays were in the closet for a variety of reasons; from family and religious pressure to political pressure, misunderstanding what it is to be gay, and questioning why “I’m not normal!”

The Kinsey Scale, also known as the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, is one of the oldest (it was developed in the 1940s) and most widely used scale to describe sexual orientation. The Kinsey Scale was groundbreaking at the

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