Human sexuality is profoundly complex and not easily compartmentalized into rigid categories (as exemplified by the Kinsey scale). So it should surprise no one that it’s perfectly normal for a homosexual person to have feelings of attraction for someone of the opposite gender, just as it’s perfectly normal for a heterosexual person to have feelings of attraction for someone of the same gender.
However, even though these feelings are something almost all people experience at one time or another in their lives, they can still be very confusing For example, the first time I had an erotic dream about a woman, I was probably nineteen or twenty. I woke up in the morning stunned, wondering how I could possibly have had such a dream after finally accepting that I was gay. Could I have made a mistake? Was I really heterosexual? I quickly realized that one heterosexual erotic dream was just that, one heterosexual erotic dream—nothing to get upset about. My feelings for men hadn’t changed, and beyond the one dream I had no strong feelings of sexual attraction for women. After talking with friends, I discovered that I wasn’t the only gay man who had had a heterosexual erotic dream, and some of my heterosexual friends acknowledged having had homosexual erotic dreams.