I shall quote one of my other comments from this thread... "The lies and bigotry aimed at gay people thrived for so long precisely because nobody knew any gay

I shall quote one of my other comments from this thread... "The lies and bigotry aimed at gay people thrived for so long precisely because nobody knew any gay people. That's exactly why coming out was (and still is) necessary. One of the reasons the gay rights movement has been so spectacularly successful over the last 40+ years is because the lives of actual gay people is a living testament to the falseness of the vicious stereotypes spread by homophobic pricks."