LGBTQIA+ Assembly Pride Coming Out as Straight Sexuality

An assembly covering “Coming out as Straight”

What would it mean for Straight People to come Out

A detailed but engaging assembly asking the above provocative question and really getting into questioning stereotypes and preconceptions around sexuality

(a) Title Slide
(b) Provocative Sarter
© Embedded Buzz Feed Film - what if straight people had to come out
(d) Slide on the Heterosexual Questionairre - The Heterosexual Questionnaire was devised in 1972 by a Psychologist named Martin Rochlin. He wanted to let heterosexuals experience, to some degree, what LGB+ experience when asked about their sexuality. Often the questions LGB+ people are asked can be a little weird and irrational, stemming from assumptions made about them as LGB+ people. So what if the same sort of questions were asked of straight people?
Here’s what those questions might look like …
(e) Selection of Questions:
What do you think caused you to be straight?
When and where did you decide you were straight?
Is it possible this is just a phase and you will out grow it?
Why do straights try to recruit others into this lifestyle?
A disproportionate majority of child molesters are straight … Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
There seem to very few happy straights. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to, so have you considered trying conversion therapy?
(f) Coming out as Straight - re-assuring words from LGBTQIA+ community:
What do you think caused you to be straight?
When and where did you decide you were straight?
Is it possible this is just a phase and you will out grow it?
Why do straights try to recruit others into this lifestyle?
A disproportionate majority of child molesters are straight … Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
There seem to very few happy straights. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to, so have you considered trying conversion therapy?
(g) Buzzfeed film on “Would you want to be Straight”
(h) Prayer:
Dear Lord,
We thank you that we live in society
where people can be fully themselves.
Let us pray that each one of us
will come to terms with who
you have created us to be.
We pray that everyone can live
in peace and harmony,
respect and love with one another.
Amen.