1. Sociology & Psychology Queer Links (http://www.queerbychoice.com/sociolinks.html)
Sociology Psychology Queer Links A Sexual Orientation Worksheet by Ben Roe, and Using the Klein Scale to Teach About Sexual Orientation by Bobbi Keppel and Alan Hamilton are two web pages explaining the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, which was developed ...
2. Bob Fink (http://www.queerbychoice.com/bob.html)
Bob Fink Current Residence: Manhattan's East Village, New York, USA 7/2/00: I believe that human beings, including myself, have a range of capacities, and being turned on by what is not necessarily an imprint is certainly one of them. If anyone told me t...
3. Queer by Choice dot com (http://www.queerbychoice.com/index.html)
For the radicals, like the conservatives, homosexuality is definitely a choice.... They both react with disdain to those studies that seem to reflect a genetic source for homosexuality. Andrew Sullivan, The Politics of Homosexuality, New Republic, May 10...
4. How Do Scientists Define Who Is Queer? (http://www.queerbychoice.com/definequeer.html)
How Do Scientists Define Who Is Queer? Queerness is a phenomenon that's notoriously difficult to define many people spend years debating over how to define their own sexual preference, and it's common for people of all ages to change their minds and rede...
5. Excerpts from PFLAG President Arnold Drake's Inaugural Speech (http://www.queerbychoice.com/drakespeech.html)
The Inaugural Speech of Dr. Arnold Drake, PFLAG National President On October 28, 2000, PFLAG convened for its National Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and inaugurated Dr. Arnold Drake as its new National President. This meeting came after over a yea...
6. "Gay Gene" Critique Links (http://www.queerbychoice.com/gaygenelinks.html)
Gay Gene Critique Links Biology, My Ass by Karla Mantilla, from the lesbian-feminist journal off our backs: a women's news journal, 1999. Of course it's a choice how could it not be? Rejecting the Gay Brain (and Choosing Homosexuality) by queer writer Jo...
7. Quotes on the Experience of Choosing to Be Queer (http://www.queerbychoice.com/experiquotes.html)
Quotes on the Personal Experience of Choice [A woman on a panel said she chose to be a lesbian] and the audience was just going crazy! What does this mean? and Well, do you still have an attraction to men? And she said, No, I don't. And they said, But th...
8. Queer Recruitment Center (http://www.queerbychoice.com/recruit.html)
Queer Recruitment Center To say that heterosexuals who accuse queers of recruitment are being hypocritical is an understatement. From the moment we're born, we're assigned a gender role and taught that we will conform to that gender role and grow up to m...
9. Proud2Bsissy (http://www.queerbychoice.com/proud2bsissy.html)
Proud2Bsissy 4/28/00: This question [of universal bisexuality] makes sense only if we assume that there are just two strictly separated genders. What about places where there are three or more genders (as in India where I am from)? Why segregate genders ...
10. The Implications of "Gay Gene" Research for Queer by Choice People (http://www.queerbychoice.com/gaygene.html)
The Implications of Gay Gene Studies for Queer by Choice People Acknowledging that some of us have chosen our sexual preferences does not require us to disprove any gay gene studies. None of the studies which have gained worldwide attention over the past...
11. Ina Tenkiller (http://www.queerbychoice.com/ina.html)
ina tenkiller 9/13/00: hi everybody on the queerchoice list i am newwww! :D nice to meet you all my name is ina. okay i haven't met any of you yet BUT i am very interested in hearing from you all the same. i'm currently *attempting* to write a piece on q...
12. "Gay Gene" Critique Quotes (http://www.queerbychoice.com/gaygenequotes.html)
Gay Gene Critique Quotes To date, no researcher has claimed that genes can determine sexual orientation. At best, researchers believe that there may be a genetic component. No human behavior, let alone sexual behavior, has been connected to genetic marke...
13. Social Constructionist History Links (http://www.queerbychoice.com/constructionlinks.html)
Social ContructionistHistory LinksSocial Constructionism a quick definition by Andrew Wikholm of gayhistory.com"Is There a Straight Gene?" by Daryl Croke, from Workers' Liberty Australia Newsletter, October 2000 Interview with David Halperin by Laurel M. ...
14. The Evolutionary Unlikelihood of a "Gay Gene" (http://www.queerbychoice.com/evolution.html)
The Evolutionary Unlikelihood of a Gay Gene One major question for gay gene researchers to answer is why the gay gene hasn't been eliminated from existence by evolution. The conventional response to this question has been that gay people contribute enoug...
15. Queer by Choice Links (http://www.queerbychoice.com/choicelinks.html)
Choice Links Choosing to Be Gay by Todd VerBeek, from Network News: The Newsletter of the Lesbian Gay Community Network of Western Michigan, November 1992. Each of them has made a . . . (dare I say it?) choice about their sexuality. For that matter, so h...
16. Are You a Genuine Queer? Palmistry and Other Highly Scientific Modern Research (http://www.queerbychoice.com/palmistry.html)
Are You a Genuine Queer? Palmistry and Other Highly Scientific Modern Research So, you think you're queer? That's probably what your mother said when she opened your closet door and accidentally stumbled onto your feather boa. Think?? you demanded haught...
17. Quotes on the Cultural Implications of Choice (http://www.queerbychoice.com/impliquotes.html)
Quotes on the Cultural Implications of Choice Make no mistake about it. It is more destructive to homosexuals to be considered 'sick' than simply 'bad.' To be pitied is weakening; to be disliked often rallies defenses. Well-wisher, letter to the editor o...
18. PFLAG & Queer by Choice: Building a Safe Environment for Our Parents to Learn About Our Choices (http://www.queerbychoice.com/pflag.html)
PFLAG Queer by Choice: Building a Safe Environment for Our Parents to Learn About Our Choices People who consider our queerness a healthy choice often feel that the proper way for our parents to respond when we come out to them would be to heartily congr...
19. 404 Not Found (http://www.queerbychoice.com/error404.html)
Sexual Preferences Change . . . and so does the Internet. Once upon a time, the file you just requested may well have been a heterosexual file, raising 2.5 children in a cold foggy suburb of GoodHousekeeping.com. Later, when it got older and wiser and ch...
20. PFLAG Chapters' Community Projects (http://www.queerbychoice.com/unsafeprojects.html)
PFLAG Chapters' Community Projects Imagine that you firmly believe you were born gay, and one day you're driving down the freeway that happens to be the same one that both your parents take to and from work every day, and you're contemplating how to come...
21. Letter from Ron Gold (http://www.queerbychoice.com/rongold.html)
Letter from Ron Gold Ron Gold was one of the five original founders of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in the USA, and he was the driving force behind the movement that got the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its lis...
22. Are you choosing to go against nature? (http://www.queerbychoice.com/againstnature.html)
Are you choosing to go against nature? Against nature? Is that even possible? Doesn't the fact that we're capable of feeling a particular attraction automatically mean that it's within the range of natural possibilities? Most of us certainly don't feel t...
23. Queer Theory Links (http://www.queerbychoice.com/qtheorylinks.html)
Queer Theory Links Queer Theory from theory.org.uk. Many people mistakenly believe that the term queer theory is just a synonym for gay lesbian studies. In reality, queer theory is a very specific subset of gay lesbian studies which is based, as this web...
24. Frank Episale (http://www.queerbychoice.com/frank_e.html)
frank episale Owner of frank's foyer Born: February 24, 1973 in New Jersey, USA Current Residence: Brooklyn, New York, USA Member and Website Designer, Jovial Crew 4/28/00: hey all-- i don't want to burden any of you with countless pages of reading, but ...
25. Quotes from Safe PFLAG Chapters (http://www.queerbychoice.com/safequotes.html)
Quotes from Safe PFLAG Chapters All of the quotes below are taken from personal email correspondence that PFLAG chapters sent to us in response to an inquiry from Queerchoice list founder Gayle Madwin which asked, in part: I'm wondering if you have any k...
26. Some Safe Link Suggestions (http://www.queerbychoice.com/safesuggestions.html)
Suggestions for Safer Books and Links We've noticed that many PFLAG chapters have pages full of recommended books and links that rely heavily on books and websites declaring that sexual orientation is not a choice, and we understand that it may be diffic...
27. Our Side of the Story (http://www.queerbychoice.com/ourside.html)
Our Side of the Story On August 22, 2000, Kirsten Kingdon, Executive Director of PFLAG National, sent out a letter to all of the PFLAG chapters which made a number of accusations against Queer By Choice activists and primarily against me, Gayle Madwin, r...
28. Gayle Madwin (http://www.queerbychoice.com/gayle.html)
Gayle Madwin Founder, QueerByChoice.com Founder, The Queerchoice Mailing List Owner of an online journal Expert on Gay Lesbian Relationships at AskMe.com (Five-star rating) Expert on Gay Lesbian Rights at AskMe.com (Five-star rating) Real Name: either Cy...
29. Jamie Heckert (http://www.queerbychoice.com/jamie.html)
Jamie Heckert Current Residence: Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. 2/7/01: Hi all, I have recently joined the list and I suppose it is time to introduce myself. It is a good excuse to procrastinate on all the other things I should be working on at the moment. I ...
