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Well I'm gay and I can only spealk for myself, but sometimes being gay can put you into tough situations.
There are still places where one can be fired for it and places in the world where you can be jailed and even killed for it. There are even places in America where if people find out your gay the cops will come and beat you up, and make up a story that you were selling drugs or something to cover it up. I've seen it happen.
If you don't open your mouth then you're just going to get stepped on your whole life. That's what I feel gay rights is about.
I never came out of the closet at work and it sucked having to make up lies about having a girlfriend, or not dating because I'm looking for the right girl. I just wanted to tell everyone to fuck off and leave me alone to just do my job.
It also sucks that if I'm dating a guy I can't hold his hand while I walk down the street. Well yes I could, theres no law against it, but I'll be made to feel very uncomfortable by the looks. I'm talking about doing that in east fuckhead Alabama, not in Northern California.
As for "abnormal", a tree won't mind being called abnormal, but a person doesn't like that.
Also in my experience if you look at any established gay neighborhood you'll find that it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live in, because gays will move into a dump, fix it up, and then the yuppies will come in drive the price up, usually making it too expensive and the gays will be forced to move out. So don't talk about gays as abnormal, we work our asses off and are productive tax paying members of society.
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