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Here is one that I made up to get students thinking about the concepts of gay and straight, and social construction: M.B. is an artist. He lives alone in a loft, although he frequently is visited by his assistant, T.C., a younger man. M.B. has a sexual relationship with T.C., and although his primary form of expression is in the visual arts (from which he earns his living), he often writes poetry to give vent to his emotions. If we were to enter his loft and open the drawer that holds his poems, we would find some touching sonnets addressed to T.C. We would also find, however, a number of expressions of deep love for V.C., a woman, many of them with veiled sexual innuendos. Is M.B. gay? S.L. is a woman in her thirties who works as the headmistress of a boarding school for adolescent and young adult women. She has been married and she has a young daughter. Over the years, S.L. has found herself falling in love with some of the girls and young women under her charge, and she has grieved when they graduated and left to carry on their adult lives. Yet her daughter was produced by a legitimate marriage, and she expresses no repugnance for men. They just don't seem to have a place in her life now. Is S.L. a lesbian?
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