This is Why We Sing

From Mosaic Youth Chorus Member One, 12:54am, 12/1/08:

i am sick and tired of being gay.
flat out exhausted.

I am tired of fighting- for acceptance, education, and equality under law.
I am tired of the stigma of being gay.
I am tired of being afraid of running into the wrong person and getting hurt for something I don't have control of.
I am tired of searching for the perfect guy, when I can hardly find gay guys in general.
I am tired of this constant struggle for identity- I do not want to be the resident gay. I want to be Dominic.
I am tired of being lumped up and equated to effeminate and flamboyant.
I am tired of being 'proud.'I am tired of waking up every day and realizing that I have to do it again. and again. and again andagainandagainandagain.

I would try so hard to change if I thought it were possible.

From Mosaic Youth Chorus Member Two, 3:57pm 12/1/08:

You just make your persona about what's uniquely "you". People can't stereotype you as a "typical" gay if their own eyes are telling them you aren't. People generally only focus on what you choose to emphasize; and that doesn't mean crawling back into the closet, it just means showing people what you want them to see. For instance, I'm the only out gay guy in my entire program in my school, but in no way am I the token gay; I'm the opinionated, intelligent, socially liberal, economically superconservative, argumentative occasional douche who nonetheless gets the job done (oh, and who crosses his legs, acts, and sings). If people wanted to see me as a flaming, raging homo, their own experience with me would contradict it.

Again, I'm not trying to be an asshole, I don't really have the energy for it right now, but it's always seemed to me that people who are only known for one thing only present that one thing to their peers.