Perspective

You are in a room with 99 other people.  50 men, 50 women.  If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a (romantic) relationship with ~48 of these.  You are straight.

If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with ~1 of these.  You are gay.

If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with 0 of these.  You are asexual.

When straight people complain about having trouble finding relationships, I'm just like, "You're shitting me, right?"  How do you think trans people feel?  How do you think gay people feel?  Of the 250 people around my age I know decently well, probably 12 are gay or bi.  Do you know how lonely and discouraging that is?  95% of the people that I might someday be attracted to are PHYSICALLY UNABLE to return that attraction.

Now fast forward in that perspective.  How do you determine if you are interested in someone?  Typically, you start with looks and move in on the personality or stumble upon the personality, correct?  After gender, that is.  How do gay people determine if they are interested in someone?  Largely the same way.  However, they have to go through a lot more people to find someone who might like them back, and even then, the chances aren't the best.

Of a room of 100 people of the opposite sex, how many would you probably initially dismiss based on looks and personality?  Let's say you only dismiss 20.  So we're left with 80 people. Take the number you have left and divide it by about 40.  So for our example where we dismissed 20, we are left with 2.   Now divide by 2.  That's the percentage of the population that a gay person might be interested in based on typical straight methods of relationship hunting. 1%

Alright I'm tired.  I don't know quite what I was trying to do with this post, but basically, the world can look discouraging for LGBT people (Well, maybe not the B people).  But you see my point, yes?

Good day.