I heard an interesting statistic this week from a friend who has a contact in OIJ (Costa Rica’s version of the FBI). Supposedly there is an internal document that reports the percentage of gay men in Costa Rica is 46%, of which 25% are men who are married, many of whom have kids. When I’ve mentioned this to people I know here, they don’t seem at all surprised. I guess their experiences support these numbers.

More interesting was that I was told the report “blames” the United States for these high numbers, saying they are a bad influence on the people here. Hello? Are they that stupid to think that people “choose” to be gay, and aren’t born that way? I guess what disturbed me most was wondering why they had to put money into researching this anyhow.