My
family was culturally — not religiously — Protestant; so I did not realize how much
Jewish and Christian culture had shaped my own sexual attitudes until one of my closest
friends declared herself lesbian, and I had to confront my own negative — largely
unconscious — responses. I had thought I accepted gay sexuality quite freely, but
encountered a visceral discomfort that made me reflect on all my responses to issues
regarding sexuality. Having been an adolescent in the '60s, I regarded my own views as
quite liberated; but actually living without assuming, say, male superiority — to take a
simple example of something none of us (none of us females, anyway!) would want to have,
or admit to — takes much more self-awareness than I had then.
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