The Village Voice and the unconscious

I'm constantly surprised at just how goddamn good The Village Voice is. This week, a great article on an interesting blindness most people have about sexual orientation: pretty much no one thinks that kids are gay, yet we refer to being born gay to combat the stupid argument that it is a choice, and we emphasize the importance of coming out later in life. Why do we preserve the gap? An example of, among other things, ideology: whenever there is this constant blindness to an aspect of an issue or a condition of society, wherever there is surprise when it is mentioned, such that an article like this becomes an "expose" of sorts, we can be sure that we've hit society's unconscious.