Analysis Of Stephanie Fairyington's The Gay Option

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Stephanie Fairyington, the author of The Gay Option, described her personal experience of declaring her sexuality to her mother. Fairyington said that her mother felt relieved to find out that her lesbianism was not a choice and that her daughter was born that way. The author regretted her choice of words when telling her mother that she would not choose to be gay. She felt by saying that being a lesbian was not a choice had somehow made others feeling sorry for and pity the LGBT community. Fairyington writes about how if society thinks that being gay is not a choice it labels them as abnormal. She continues to make the point in her references in history. The Nazi’s labeled Jews as being inferior; colonists justified enslaving Africans because
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