“I grew up very religious, and I was taught to think that...

“I grew up very religious, and I was taught to think that people with alternative lifestyles were just ‘confused.’  But now it seems to me that gender and sexuality are so bendable and flexible.  I’ve been going to a lot of poetry readings lately, and people present themselves in such raw forms.  And they don’t seem confused at all.  They are being so honest and transparent in their poetry.  How are you supposed to object and say that ‘who they are’ is wrong?”