Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to be Human

From the criticism of our universities as purveyors of hopelessness to the dynamics of "getting laid," Scared Straight is an eye-opening and penetrating analysis of what's really going on in U.S. culture that is played out through not accepting LGBTQ people. Without sparing any institutions, Scared Straight identifies our culture as fear-based and in denial. Like software on a computer, our system installs a "straight role" in us from the moment we're born that actually has little, if anything, to do with sexual orientation, religion, tradition, or the Bible, and everything to do with maintaining limiting definitions of a "human being," a "real man," and a "real woman." People of all sexual orientations are hurt by being, acting, and thinking "straight," torn from their full human potential, and squeezed into molds that support our dominant institutions. Human relationships with either sex are incomplete and unfulfilling. Chapters on "How to be Straight" and "How to Be Gay" describe th