# Gay Dopers: Would you have chosen to be born gay if you somehow had the choice?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 3, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-dopers-would-you-have-chosen-to-be-born-gay-if-you-somehow-had-the-choice/630250 "2012-08-03T03:29:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-dopers-would-you-have-chosen-to-be-born-gay-if-you-somehow-had-the-choice/630250/14 "2012-08-03T21:01:37Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> ETA: also, seriously, I suffer from a mild degree of homophobia, and I don’t like it. I don’t want to be that kind of person. At very least, if I could be born all over again, I’d choose to do away with such feelings.

I would be interested in an ask the thread regarding this. I would like to know what reasons people have for holding this opinion/feeling. Afraid of being hit on? Afraid you will like it? Uncomfortable around the pop culture representation of homosexuals? Indoctrination? Curious. Or maybe there are enough threads about this topic at the moment.

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