Internalized Homophobia

I'm afraid you're making things up and stereotyping me, which is just as dodgy as homophobes are with their spiel. I could make the argument that by doing so you're projecting. However I am totally prepared to consider that you don't know better.

In my experience roughly about 10% of the gay population are loud and proud and need to shout it from the mountaintop. I can't help that I find that embarrassing and backward-thinking. We've gotten as far as we have socially by integration, not by demands.

I do fly pride flags, and make them gifts to friends. There is a time and a place to do it in public though. If you were to walk into my home there would be no question you were in the home of a gay man. The very first thing you would see upon walking through my front door is a framed poster of the famous nude photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in embrace. I get all sorts of humourous reactions to it, but most see the same beauty in it that I do.

I don't care how straight men behave sexually. It's not part of my world and has nothing to do with me.

I also don't entertain any statement made by any conservative seriously. It's not my nature. No one sells me my viewpoints. I reach them on my own. I do have a mind of my own. I am always going to side with what I feel is best for the tribe rather than the individual.

Your accusation of internalized homophobia couldn't be more off the mark. If it had validity I wouldn't have written the original post. I am not afraid of my sexuality in any way. It is a gift and I indulge in it constantly. Your issue is that I don't have the same approach to my sexuality as you do to yours. That issue, I'm afraid, is only yours.

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