" I don't mind if you're gay. I just wish you'd keep it to yourself."
That seems to be what you are saying.
Throughout history, for any minority to get any rights similar to the majority, they had to make enough noise to get peoples attention. Then, they could point out the inequities and injustices and eventually convince enough of the majority to agree to more equal rights.
This isn't "Special Rights", as the radical conservative religious nuts like to call it. It's EQUAL rights!
King and Parks did their calm, quiet protests which made some headway. But, it was the loud and physically threatening Black Panthers and their like who woke up the complacent majority to the fact that hey, there's something WRONG here.
In the gay community, our people pretty much hid quietly, up until the AIDS epidemic began in the eighties.
When our government, who had always made every effort to combat diseases, decided that, because it was only gay people and that they were content to do NOTHING and just let us die, the more vocal gays stood up and screamed at every opportunity until medications were discovered that would prolong our lives.
That was an experience that taught us that the only way to get what we NEED(not just want, but NEED)was to stand up and shout until we get action.
You really should educate yourself about the rights you take for granted as a straight man; rights that gay people are denied; and for no good reason.
In many, but not all states:
I am not allowed to marry the man I love.
If my partner is on trial, I can be required to testify against him.
My partner and I are not allowed to adopt children.
If I die, my partner will lose our house and everything that is in my name only.
If my partner is admitted into a hospital, I can not visit him because I am not a relative.
If a straight man feels that he is receiving an unwelcome advance from me, he is free to KILL ME then plead the "gay panic defense" and be found not guilty.
These are just a few of the reasons that some gay people are loud and in your face. And, the more you see it, the more you will get used to it, and the sooner you will wake up to the fact that what we want is no threat to you. It is simply basic equal human rights.
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What would you do if a woman whom you were not interested in, came on to you?
Straight men need to learn to treat unwanted advances from gay men the same way.
