To be honest, you can call me arrogant and fragile but you're the user completely losing your **** here.
Has it ever occurred to you that this is people's lives your talking about? Has it not occurred to you that attitudes like yours impact us? Everyone expects us to suck it up and move on but I'm sorry, no. That's not okay. Myself and literally all of my LGBTQIA friends and my cousin who is also a gay man in his 50s now, have suffered for years on end with constant psychological, emotional and physical complications as a result of others. Your attitude to my life is hurtful. I don't want my life to be a fight because if it is you get tired and this is the result of what happens when you get tired:
And look, at the end of the day pal, for all my faults, I do understand and respect other people's opinions but everybody is just so intent on making our lives harder than they need to be. People do refuse to even remotely accept the implications of their language. And I resent being told to grow up and suck up the negativity because that's all I have done since I was in primary school and was homophobically abused daily. Such things have happened daily for the past 12 years. And believe me, I'm so tired of it and everybody else going through it is too.
We have one month a year to commemorate our struggle and get together and be happy with each other - Pride Month in June - and people have issues with it. A guy wants to walk down the street holding their boyfriends hand and people have a problem with it, a problem they don't have with the girl and guy snogging on the other side of the road. Everybody says "I hate PDAs in general" but the proof is in the pudding and they rarely seem to act with so much disgust when it's the latter.
You know what man, I'm not trying to be bitter or argumentative or whiney, but these things hurt. And you can call me a professional victim until the cows come home but at the end of the day, I've been a victim of a lot just like most other LGBTQIA members of society and all we want is to be the normal guys and girls society seems to crave despite society being the thing that stands in our way.
With the comments about incest and so on, it just punches into people. They're clearly nothing alike and you say they are, which I can respect, but then you make it sound like it's a matter of fact and it's only your opinion. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are virtually the same apart from the genders of the participants and the same cannot be said for objects or incest. Again, I respect your right to completely disagree with me and my purpose in writing this was to explain to you why I come across so intolerant and irate sometimes. I'm genuinely not. I can have very civil discussions about this. My own parents are rather anti-gay and I have managed to live in their household for 18 years whilst they've completely battered the community I belong to, verbally.
I don't think there's much point in continuing the argument but I feel you underestimate how much I do know and understand about the alternative sides of these arguments. I simply don't agree with them. It doesn't mean I cannot see their angle or respect them.