The great flight from heterosexuality
by Brendon O’Neill, spiked:
Why so many young people, even straights, are calling themselves ‘queer’.
For centuries people were ashamed to be gay. Now they’re ashamed to be straight. To the switched-on Gen Z’er there is no curse more twisted than heterosexuality. No blight more undesired than that most vanilla and normative of sexual identities. Straight – even the word is drab, literally meaning ‘to move uniformly in one direction only’. And so they hide their straightness. They’re getting into the straight closet. ‘I’m queer, I swear!’, they protest, convincing no one except their fellow blue-haired pansexual pretenders. Welcome to the great flight from heterosexuality.
More and more youths are identifying as LGBTQ. It’s especially crazy on campuses. A recent survey found that a whopping 38 per cent of students at Brown University in the US claim to be ‘not straight’. Just over a decade ago it was only 13 per cent. This weird 25 percentage-point hike in queerness is not down to the fact that more youths are happy to come out as homosexual. Indeed, homosexuals are a minority now among Brown’s LGBTQ student body: only 23 per cent of those ‘not straight’ students are old-fashioned gays and lesbians. The rest? They’re bisexual, pansexual, asexual, queer, questioning or ‘other’. ‘I’m not straight!’ is the defensive cry of every one of these pseudo-exotic neo-sexualities.
In youthful circles in the US, the number of young people swimming in the alphabet soup of LGBTQIA+ is soaring.
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