It was not until the 1960s that the school lifted the rule prohibiting students from going to movies. For generations, students were barred from dancing — on campus or off — unless it was with members of the same sex or a square dance.
Conservative Christians and same-sex dancing? It just goes to prove my point that there are two reasons that homos-in-denial hurl themselves headlong into the church or the military:
1. On a semi-conscious level, queers-to-be realize that in the church/military, there are rules that prohibit homosexual activity. So, as the thinking goes, “Because I’m prohibited from getting it on with my roommate, I won’t get it on with my roommate.”
2. On a not-so-conscious level, queers-to-be realize that the church/military are designed as same-sex environments, imbuing them with an undeniably attractive, erotic charge.
I wasn’t exactly the most self-loving teenage homo myself, but luckily I had the good sense to recognize the inevitable. Otherwise, I could have made my college years very, very miserable indeed.
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