[dwohnitmok]

> I don't think it is possible to turn someone who is straight gay, anymore than it is possible to turn someone who is gay straight.

Indeed if that's true, i.e. that there is an innate immutability between the two, then the whole question is conveniently moot and we can instead turn our attention to figuring how to combat these fears at a rhetorical and cultural level (still a Herculean task but at least a step forward).

The fear, on both sides of that coin, comes from if that's not true.