[dmz]

This line from your post led me to the conclusion I reached: "Not as lawyers or carpenters or bartenders, but as homoSEXUALS first and foremost."

I'm as straight as an arrow, but have lived and worked and played amongst many gays, and this has NEVER been my experience.

Your comments sound like talking points provided to you in lieu of actual experience with them yourself.

[Boiler Plate]

Well guess what, you experience is not really all that relevant is it? The truth is I have known and know probably just as many homosexuals as you do. So you really don't have a corner on that market.

So while they may not want to tell you "Joe Straight Arrow" about their identity they do not hesitate to make it known to one another.

Course you wouldn't know that, being a straight guy, would you now.