Should Gay People Seek to Be Seen as ‘Normal’?
To the Editor: Re “As a Gay Man, I’ll Never Be Normal,” by Richard Morgan (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, June 25): Mr. Morgan just reinforces the concept of normalcy.
Better that we just be ourselves, and ignore the labeling altogether. I live in a college town, and what I see every day is gender fluidity and sexual orientation boundaries continuing to be dissolved at a pace that middle-aged queers like me should find both inspirational and enviable.
Young people today don’t care so much about the “who is normal/abnormal” space that the author writes about. We should not retreat from the many hues in our “rainbow” of people, including all those who dwell in the borders.
We should neither spend too much time separating out the colors (as the author does), nor dig our heels into concepts of “true” or “pure” queerness.
