Is being gay or lesbian due to one initial sexual encounter in life, with a gay or lesbian person?

Be gay or lesbian is who you are, similar to the heterosexual. It is time we learn that a person's sexual preference should not be an issue.

I doubt it. From what i've read and the gay people I know, it's mainly caused by genetics. I don't think it's a conscious choice that we make but it's just how some people are.

Of course religious nuts will tell you it's a sin but that's why they are religious nuts.

No, absolutely not. One of my very good friends is the mother of a gay man, and she assures me (as have other mothers in similar situations) that she knew long before he even hit ten years old, yet he remained a virgin until his late teens. Then there is a woman who has been a very good friend of mine since she was five years old -- she is now 22.At the time we met, "boys were icky" and all the other age-appropriate stuff, but as she grew they never did catch her eye.

At nine years old through her teens, she had posters of attractive women on her walls, but never men. She remained a virgin until well into college, when she entered into the committed relationship she's in now.It's as Cardisa says -- you don't have to have sex to know you're heterosexual, and likewise you don't have to in order to know you're homosexual.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.