For those who tuned to my last blog....I ended on a riddle:

"What goes around the world, and always stays in the corner?"

The Answer:

a stamp.

(Prepare for a slightly off comparison...)

Humans are very much like stamps. We have the capacity to circumnavigate the world, but that does not mean that we can absorb it all.

Even as a student in multicultural studies, I find it difficult to seek out ALL other cultures. The LGBT community, I've found, is one of the most nuanced multicultural communities, because we push the break the binary and promote LGBT inclusion, in a primarily heterosexist and patriarchal society.

Going back to the the stamp metaphor, we may be able to be exposed to all possibilities, but we, as humans, are so small in this world and are limited in our interpretation of it, because of our own individual experiences in multiculturalism.

How do we overcome that?

The best way to overcome, whether on campus, in a workplace, or at a family's home, is to simply listen to others stories and interpretations on certain issues that divide us as a society, especially if their opinions are strongly oppositional to your own.

I know how hard this is...because we are sexual minorities and sexually-oriented minorities, and, for most of us, we must CONSTANTLY hear that our sexuality is either flawed, inferior, sinful, disgusting or illogical with biological function. By listening, we are choosing to be open-minded, and, hopefully, in return, they will adopt that quality and allow new reasoning on sexuality issues that they claim to "know so well."

NEXT POST: WE BEGIN ON DISCUSSING THE BIBLE...SODOM'S STORY