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They began when I was 15, I investigated when I was 17-19.

That would have been while you were still in high school... right? What moved you to embark upon this research? A social studies or biology class? Personal curiosity?

Yes...while I was still in high school.

What was worse, I didn't participate in sexual adventures of either sex for several years later.

For a number of reasons...bullying and small-mindedness, it was deemed necessary to label me as homosexual by my peers. Had I less self-esteem, or actually cared what those other kids said, I may have been cajoled into trying it like so many other poor souls.

After being hit on for a couple of years, I heard stories about how conservatives straddled these people with all sorts of nasty assumptions that were obviously unproven, and...I had been told...were totally untrue.

So...back to the "If they leave me alone, I'll leave them alone."

By the time I gradutated, they hadn't, so I decided it was time to find out what they were really like. you can't possibly sit across from them with a glass divider asking them questions from sheets of paper to find out how someone actually lives.

Your last two sentences comprise three questions, the answer to each is "Yes". Classes moved me to investigate due to the lack of information available and the baseless assumptions brought to bear on students.