David and Jonathan “the beloved and the pleasant” were accepted in their time. “Their love is wonderful from the love of women.” Plato and Alexander the Great loved their peers, and Leonardo da Vinci had a long-standing relationship with two of his disciples.
Gradually, homosexuality became taboo and gained negative images. Perverts called them. Writer Oscar Wilde was indicted in 1895 for having a homosexual relationship and sentenced to two years in prison. He was considered a revelation that a stigma attached to him, and only after about a hundred years did he become an adored figure and gained the appreciation he deserved.
The Jewish physician Magnus Hirschfeld was one of the first to establish the gay-lesbian liberation movement in Germany, the first community-support organization up to the time of Hitler to burn his writings. Hirschfeld was unlucky not to be in Germany at the time Hitler came to power.
According to various studies, the percentage of the proud community in the population ranges from 10% to 20%. The community includes a variety of sexual identities and a large portion that is still in the closet.
Sexual orientation is known to be partly genetic, partly social and partly behavioral, and just as straight is not attracted to having a relationship with a person of the same gender, so is not a homosexual attracted to a person of the opposite sex. Hence there is no place, benefit or success in conversion therapies.
For years, the proud community has been burdened with feelings of guilt, feelings of inferiority and stigma, so the opposite current has arisen to be proud. To be proud of their inclination and not to run away from it. A person’s sexual orientation is his business, and so is his sexual behavior. As long as this is not done forcibly but with the consent of two graduates, no one has the right to enter into the other’s private life.
Many studies talk about the place of genetics in homosexual orientation, and a tendency of such a large percentage of the population can not be considered a disorder and certainly not a deviation.
Researchers have found a neurological cognitive mental similarity between a woman’s brain and a gay man’s brain, and at the same time the same patterns have been found in the brains of lesbian women and in the brains of men. Evidence for the genetic component of homosexuality has been found in studies done in laboratories on mice.
In these studies, the researchers were able to isolate from mice a gene that was implanted in mice and turned into “lesbians” (the article was published in the scientific journal “BMC Genetics”). There is also evidence of heredity and familiality in homosexuality and an assumption that the gene is on the X chromosome.
Thus, gentlemen, God created us.
And to our religious friends, a question: Man was created in B’Tselem, so it is written. “Male and female created them.” So that God can be both male and female. And one more thing: an unwritten word in the Ten Commandments, a divine commandment we received, about sexual behavior.
And I wish a happy Pride holiday to all mankind.