I didn't assume... you accuse moi?
(A)No-one likes anyone's agenda to be "pushed in their face" (myself included), but there is a purpose and need for the militant, and I can accept that.
It must be painful to accept what you don't like-- How do you do that? Isn't it cruel to do that to yourself?
(B) We are discussing the right to be and the right to live life unencumbered by hate mongering, prejudiced individuals.
Statement A does not wash with statement B-- you're saying it's ok to be militant and hate mongering, as long as it's done by "gays"?
If having a "club" or using educational facilities to help others understand nature's quirks will help thwart prejudice, then that might be the best way to deal with it.
Big MIGHT there. Quirks are best studied in college or graduate school. You assume NO prejudice exists within the "club." ref to above statements A and B, which are prejudicial.
... "coming out" in numbers that are staggering. ...is not as detrimental, nor ever should be detrimental, as they once thought.
There you go again,-- not AS DETRIMENTAL there. Like-- not SO bad, still bad. ...nor SHOULD BE detrimental... except it is.
You are either "gay" or you are not. It's a fairly simple fact.
Then the aforementioned person who had the gay relationship, but wanted "out" with a man,-- wasn't "really" gay? Now, why didn't they know that before? without experimentation? without coerscion? Without gay clubs in high school? what?
Sooner or later, you will find that someone you care about, is "gay".
No one who I care about is "gay", but there is a good possibility that someone who I care about, is confused because of a failed heterosexual marriage/relationship-- and IS experiencing coerscion by a "butch" militant.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we ponder to deceive."
Go in peace, my friend. I wish you luck.
I fear you need luck more than I, my friend,--
but more than luck, you need peace- "Go thy way and sin no more."
I've discovered that about a few people I've known. The fact that people in my circle may have been gay doesn't affect what I think about gay-fascist politics. Just because I once discovered that an ancestor had been a dishonest pawnbroker doesn't change my opinion of the laws governing pawnshops. And it shouldn't, or else I'm a hypocrite. That's why gay polemicists love PFLAG.