Analysis Of Sexual Orientation

For this study, I decided to focus on sexual orientation based on my knowledge of many diverse people in this group. For this, I interviewed myself, and I identify romantically straight in this manner, a boy, Pumpkin, who does not currently have a label for himself, but for this we will simply call him not straight, and one of my roommates, RM, who is straight. Sexual orientation is often discriminated against and I think it is an important topic to be discussing in this political time, due to the fact it is not a federally protected class and workplace discrimination is most likely going to rise soon. Interviewing myself was pretty awkward, as I don’t especially enjoy hearing my own voice and I don’t have a lot of very specific memories about

It was just an odd experience to try to interview myself and make things coherent and, hopefully, make sense to someone who is not constantly inside my brain without a ton of explanation. It was also odd to try to think about the sexual orientation diversity of the people I grew up with and my friends and the people I spend most of my time with. I don’t know that much about my childhood friends, but it was also strange for me to realize how many people I am friends with who are not traditionally heterosexual, for lack of a better phrase. Interviewing RS was super awkward too, mostly because we had to do it in a more public place, which meant we got interrupted more than I would have wanted, but there aren’t many private places when more than five of us

I was also pretty happy to hear about RS’s experiences growing up and to have her try to explain the feeling when she sees or hears people talk negatively about people who are not heterosexual. It really cemented my views that, like Pumpkin said, sexual orientation is almost just a fact about someone. It shouldn’t change someones opinion on someone, as the person is still them, you just know more about them after you find out or are told. I know not everyone sees it this way, because of cultures or religion or even just personal beliefs, but it is more reassuring for me to have a better way to describe why sexual orientation is not as important to who someone is as many people think. It can make someone who they are, the experiences gained or lost from being one way or another, but it doesn’t change who someone is the moment one finds out. Pumpkin liked to say something when asked about his sexual orientation a few years ago, he's just himself. I never really understood until I started to go to school outside of California, and still probably have very little clue, how important that statement is in terms of meaning. It was reassuring to me to find out so much about one of my