Just curious...what line of work were you in when you were younger?
I wasn't, I was in high school. My best friend's father became sexually "confused" when I was about 16. It was pretty weird because not only was his dad odd my friends sister was a lesbian. His mom was, simply put, drunk most of the time. And I could not blame her.
Anyway, they were a well off family with a huge house and they had many parties where all the guys at the party were queers. Besides that, my friends father opened up a business in "the Montrose" area of Houston which is queer central in Houston. So my buddy and I were down there a lot. Because of this I met a lot of queer men. From the flaming lisping queens to the leather biker types that were pretty scary. Overall, they were a pathetic lot. My buddy's father let a few of them run the business he started, the robbed him like crazy and he knew it.
Some of the wild drunken parties at my friends house were interesting. Usually, almost all of the guys hit on me or my buddy. We'd just laugh at them or as I did one time I picked one up who grabbed my backside and I threw him in the pool. Remember that I was 16 at the time and these guys were trying like crazy to do "whatever" to me. That's another thing I learned, queers can't keep their hands off young guys.
I got to know several of them pretty well, I didn't really like any of them because they were such a sad lot. One of my favorite things to do at parties was to ask them how they could "stick this in to that then in to that!"?? They didn't like that because they don't want straight people thinking about the sick stuff queers do. They's rather we talk about the lovey-dovey relationship stuff. This is something that the queers and the media have carefully crafted for decades. Just imagine if the TV show "Queer Eye for The Straight Guy" went from being funny to the fags grabbing each other and tongue kissing. Their ratings would tank.
If instead of he hated gays Hardaway said he found queer anal and oral sex to be sickening he'd probably not have much blow-back (maybe a little pun) from the gay community and whatnot. Because that's the kind of things they do not want discussed in public. It's difficult for them to counter such things. They want to keep those kinds of discussions off the radar.
While some might not agree with me I really do think most queer men are born wired that way. I think my friends sister, the lesbian, was too. But I'm not sure about many of her girlfriends though which were the "non butch" types in the relationship. My friends sister hated men. just hated them. But she did come in handy since she always had a stack of Playboys hidden under her bed. Hey, I was 16 at the time:)
Frankly, as far as I'm concerned Hardaway said something I don't find to be a big deal because I think I understand what he meant. He just said it wrong and there will be hell to pay for it.