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There are 2 varieties of gays. The respectable gays and the in your face gays.

When I was a young newlywed living in an appartment, we had several gay couples as neighbors. The couple across the hall were wonderful people. I'd have trusted them with my first born. We looked out for each other. They behaved like an old married couple. I enjoyed cordial relations with them and would take them as neighbors again if I could.

There was a couple across the courtyard that were " in your face." Loud parties with open windows and nearly naked dirty dancing. Straight couples would have been arrested for the displays they put on.

They were very much disliked but it was because of the disrespect and abuse of their neighbors.

What is done behind closed doors is none of my business but doing it infront of open windows forces you behind the closed doors. I couldn't watch TV in peace, or study because of the loudness. Since my living room was directly across, I had to close my blinds and shut my drapes . We didn't have airconditioning in those days and the summers were sweltering on the 2nd floor. With the apt closed up , It felt like being in an oven.

I didn't care to see men in their skivies french kissing , or see them doing anything else. Their behavior affected the quality of my life.

I agree with you, but this gets back to the difference between militant gays and those gays who truly just wanted to be able to live their lives privately without fear of repercussions. My sil is a lesbian in a committed long term relationship and they tend to disabled folks, many of them relatives of her partner and two of them saved from neglect and abortion. They have never been overt or obvious about what they do in the bedroom, much like most long term married heterosexual couples. THey don't march in parades or advertise their sexuality via books for 1st graders. They are content to live quiet, relatively normal lives in the sleepy midwest. This type of homosexual is a far cry different than the parading freaks on the streets of san fran. It is like the difference between a girl having her first sexual encounter with her boyfriend out of wedlock and a porn star. Both commit sinful acts, but one does not seek to find acceptance and a market for her behavior.
BTW, my sil and her partner have no intention of marrying if given the oppurtunity.