<p>I’m not saying that that ALL the gay people exhibit that stereotypical behavior. Its just that where I am going to school, where so many DO exhibit that behavior, you are looked down on by those who do exhibit that behavior (if you’re not exhibiting that behavior). For the most part those people are incredibly self absorbed and think they are better than everyone else. It gives gay people in general a bad rep because one automatically associates that behavior with being gay. Again, im not saying everyone is like that. I know a few openly gay men who are on all accounts extremely normal. Its those few (and in my school’s case, alot) that give the rest a bad name. Its one of the reasons why i’m transferring…</p>
<p>I just have to say that I had one of my friends tell me, an openly gay person, that he would want to know if his roommate was gay because that would be “kind of sketch.” That was a little bit aggravating to me.</p>
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<p>How do you KNOW?! Do all LGBT people wear a sign on their back that says “I’m LGBT”? No. So while there might be some flamboyant people- the VAST majority of LGBT people are not that way so many people assume they’re “straight”. It’s why the numbers seem so skewed. </p>
<p>This is dumb.</p>
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<p>Yes, it’s so horrible that gay people are accepted in this culture as equals deserving of love, respect, and equal rights. We should totally go back to pre-1972 when being gay was considered a mental disorder and you could be forcibly “cured” through the use of drugs, torture, unethical treatments, and electroshock therapy. Cause that was working oh so well. That silly media occasionally having a gay character in a hit television show, or God forbid they show gays acting like normal people -gasp- who do they think they are? The NERVE of that liberal media to break the message that gays are degenerates who deserve nothing but scorn until they “change” it’s just a choicey phase anyway, am I right? Heaven above, these people aren’t ashamed of their own natural anatomy, how dare they. Don’t they know those natural bodies are horrible and sinful and evil? They’re not showing their bits to everybody but…ugh, those exposed arms and legs…SHAMEFUL!</p>
<p>Just go to the engineering college</p>
<p>Engineering: It gets the gay out</p>
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I enjoyed your little performance there. But if you go back and read my post, you’ll notice that I didn’t say ANY of that stuff. My point is that I don’t think it’s proper for people to parade around naked in the streets and make videos of children gratuitously saying f**k (c.f. fckh8, i think that’s what it was called) pretend it’s about “rights” and “acceptance.” Give me a break.</p>
<p>I’m at my internship and this Mexican guy and his Saudi Arabian friend just walked by having a really awkward conversation about relationships. Dang foreigners, this is America; they should know better than to go around advertising their sexuality.</p>
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<p>Best friend is gay. He is in a drag show next week.
Oh, he also has a 3.9 GPA in engineering.</p>
<p>Every single time I hear something to the effect of, “Oh, you should stop being so flamboyantly gay,” I just want to tell people to stop shoving their heterosexuality in my face first. (Blatant heterosexuality is, for the record, much more common than blatant homosexuality.) It just all gets tiring after a while.</p>
<p>@nervus. I know those things aren’t for legal equality… It’s more about just being accepted by society. I can’t even fathom turning away from a friend / family member for something that he or she can’t control.</p>
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<p>You’d just be happier if gays went silently back into the closet, stayed quiet and stopped being so uppity, right?</p>
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<p>I’ve seen pride parades, I haven’t seen people “Naked” at them yet though. I agree, public nudity at non-nude beaches is unplesant. Those folks on the floats? Not naked. Plus, they’re being outragous to prove a point, it’s not the point you like but that’s too bad.</p>
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<p>So it’s not okay for us to have kids swearing, but it’s okay for Phelps’ family to go around letting their kids sing awful offensive songs and hold up “Thank God For Dead Soldiers” signs? What about the kids the Tea Partiers bring to protests? Or the anti-gay groups with their 5 year olds holding up “Man+Woman=Marriage” signs. If we’re not allowed to use our kids in protests, you guys shouldn’t either. If you support the stuff above you need to stifle it, otherwise that’s hypocrisy.</p>
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<p>Nothing pretend about it, give us equal rights, simple as that. We demand to be treated equally and we will not be silent anymore. Nobody’s “pretending” here, we’re all very serious about this.</p>
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Again, NOT what I said. Stop trying to paint me as an irrational, hate-filled bigot because that I am not. I am VERY against WBC. </p>
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<p>That “us vs. them” mentality isn’t going to get you very far in life, boss. It doesn’t have to be like that. And stop getting so worked up over things that were NEVER said.</p>
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<p>Oh but you see it does… you’re naive so I’ll forgive you for not understanding this… but the anti-gays are the ones who started this mess. They’re the ones who couldn’t be happy with “live and let live” and had to get angry when we demanded equal rights… or even to be treated like human beings… or even to have the right to LIVE (some of the “family” movement would express the sentiment in this day and age that we ought to be executed for being gay). All we said is we’re not gonna sit back and take it anymore, we’re going to fight for our rights. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, but they’re the ones who made it “us vs. them” not us.</p>
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<p>Well then fight “them”, leave “us” out of it</p>
<p>and to the guy that posted about his gay friend in engineering. I never said there weren’t gays in engineering or that they couldn’t succeed. There is just a lower number of them, or at leas the flamboyant ones.</p>
<p>Also, to whoeve posted this… how does a heterosexual rub ones heterosexuality in a homosexuals face?</p>
<p>@antipacifist You’re ok with wikipedia as a base source reference right?</p>
<p>[Uganda</a> Anti-Homosexuality Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Bill]Uganda”>Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Do a little research into the Americans like Peter Sprigg who want that bill passed and would be okay if a bill passed like that here in America.</p>
<p>Also, either you can look him up yourself, or I’ll provide you links to Bryan Fischer and some of his most inflammatory statements such as “Only gays were savage enough for Hitler” “Gays in the millitary gave us six million dead Jews” you’ve heard of Bryan Fischer right? He still gets booked to CNN and Fox News as the voice of the “opposition.” He’s also said some very uncouth things about Native Americans and many other groups.</p>
<p>Did you know leading “family” canidate Mike Huckabee pretty much supports the Uganda bill?</p>
<p>Like I said, you’re naive about the issue kid, so it’s forgivable that you have no clue what some of the people who share the views you’re espousing have said. If you did, you probably would have sense enough not to say them or hold those views.</p>
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<p>I can think of one: bragging about how much tail he got over the weekend. “Oh yeah man my girl was just doin’ me all night long all night man it was crazy!” You know, alpha-male types? Who like to vocalize loudly about how hot girls around them are and how much sex they get? Those people? If that’s not “rubbing our faces in it” I dunno what is.</p>
<p>^MLDWoody: The point is that so many straight people talk freely about their relationships, sex lives, etc (just turn on any daytime TV show) but it’s only construed as “indoctrination” or whatever when gay people try to do the same thing. Not that people literally run around saying things like “GUESS WHAT EVERYBODY I’M STRAIGHT”</p>
<p>You forget, Itachirumon, that erasure is the solution to everything ever! Don’t like that there are queers in our heteronormative society? Just tell them to shut up so you can keep on pretending they don’t exist! ;)</p>
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<p>The problem with your statement is that we are the ones considered to be the Other. We haven’t created the “us vs. them” mentality; it was there to begin with, created by our wonderful heteronormative society, with us being the them. You’re telling us to settle into our role of the Other. We refuse to, because we are as much people as you are, and we deserve the same rights.</p>
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<p>Um, have you watched any television lately?</p>
<p>Look, don’t even try to connect me with murderers. I bet if I tried hard enough I could find a gay serial rapist; how about I bring that into the discussion? </p>
<p>My main point is that JUST because I don’t support homosexuality doesn’t make me a horrible bigot, and I’m tired of the media trying to convince me otherwise. No amount of you badgering me if going to change that. And I have not ONCE attacked you personally so stop it.</p>
<p>The problem I have with this thread is that it wasn’t based on someone having a legitimate problem. It was basically the same old defense (which I admit I am guilty of typing on occasion) of homosexuality that we always see every time there is a gay roommate thread…but without a person actually having a problem to begin with. We’ve just had this same exact argument a hundred times, and this case is literally only for the sake of argument. No one is going to change anyone’s mind about this, that’s clear. I’m gay and I think both sides of this argument have made good points. Can we please just let it die on the grounds of futility? Please?</p>