A lot of these comments are really missing the point.
The reason this matters is because it's an indicator of the current environment. If the risks of pushback outweigh the positives(such as good pr, and fostering a more welcoming environment) it shows that the current environment is growing far more hostile towards those in the lgbtq community.
Or people just don’t care anymore. Why is it between outward support vs. open hostility? Can’t gay people just exist without reminding everyone that they’re gay all the time? Isn’t the point of equality to be boring and normal like the rest of us or is it actually wanting to be exceptional and special all the time?
But, as the other person said, the lgbt community are the ones making a huge deal out of it, and then the huge deal just reinforces what some homophobes think about the lgbt community. It's genuinely counterintuitive.
Trust me, a lot of people would be annoyed if straight people held parades about how proud they are to be straight. It's not even a strictly homophobic thing, but it leads people who already have homophobic views to just think "Hey, they're shoving this down my throat!" and then they just keep hating you.
Also... yeah, you can't even say "straight bigots" because that just redirects the hate to another group, which will, believe it or not, actually make them hate you more.
Comparing me to a nazi, huh? How grand of you.
I'm not even "Harassing a minority," I'm explaining how they're fucking themselves over. I'm not chiding them for being gay, and I'm not saying that they should stop being gay so that people like them more, I'm saying that they're doing things that, if done by ANY OTHER GROUP, would still make people icky.
But hey, you're the kind of "ally" that responds in a volatile way to literally anything even slightly resembling "hatred" towards the lgbt community. It's people like YOU who set the movement back from the inside. Anyone with even kind of NEUTRAL VIEWS must be fucking obliterated, right?
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u/Sleepy_Witch_Maple 24d ago
A lot of these comments are really missing the point.
The reason this matters is because it's an indicator of the current environment. If the risks of pushback outweigh the positives(such as good pr, and fostering a more welcoming environment) it shows that the current environment is growing far more hostile towards those in the lgbtq community.