Doing An Experiment. Reblog If You Wear Glasses Or Contacts, Please.

Doing an experiment. Reblog if you wear glasses or contacts, please.

Welcome to October

The Sherlock fandom, circa 1965

As endorsed by Arthur Conan Doyle

This was a nice touch. I take my fan service where I can get it. :)

"There's a point that few make when talking about the whole "coming out" issue. When gays are, say, around 3 percent of the population, it is not unreasonable to assume they are straight, until told otherwise. Odds are: a random person will be straight. And so it is simply a fact of homosexual life that you have a double standard when it comes to public acknowledgment of one's orientation. To get to neutrality, gays have to say something, while straights need only swim in the current of the majority. No straight person needs to come out. Every gay person, who doesn't want basic facts about him or her misunderstood, has little choice." --Andrew Sullivan

This is the point I try to make, with varying degrees of success, every time I hear/see a well-meaning "ally" say/write "It's no one's business." This was even the first thing out of my mother's mouth when I told her I was setting up house with my better half. "It's not like you have to tell anyone you're a couple. It's no one's business." And I thought of Brian McNaught's wise words: "I'm not telling [them] what I do. I'm telling [them] who I am."