Gee, I dunno, let’s ask them. Or maybe yet, why don’t we leave them alone?
How about you? At what age did you first realize you were “normal?” How did it manifest itself? Did you find yourself wanting to caress your classmates? Just feel them up? When did you first realize you liked girls instead of guys? Have you ever thought about caressing other guys? Do you masturbate? How often? What do you think about when you do it? When’s the first time you had sex? Was it good?
Since I opened the question and put myself up for inspection, I suppose I’m obligated to give some kind of response. So I’ll just say this: I first saw Star Wars when I was 6, and I knew I liked Han Solo better than Princess Leia. That’s the most you’re going to get out of me.
Plausible as long as you choose to ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary. The fact that many, if not most homosexuals are the only one of their siblings to be gay. The cases of twins with one gay and one straight sibling. The cases of homosexual parents raising straight children. The fact that there are thousands of homosexuals around the world with completely divergent backgrounds – single parents, two parents, no parents, religious, atheist, conservative, liberal, suburban, urban, whatever, in every single society in the world throughout history. It would be very convenient if you could wrap it all up and “blame” it on the parents, but you simply can’t.
But I regret giving too much attention to the “what causes homosexuality?” and “is it a choice?” questions, because they’re completely irrelevant. The question isn’t “what makes people gay?” The question is “why do you have a problem with it?”