Laugh or cry? About a comment I just got in my inbox

I am lending support to the stereotype that gays are sex crazed, pedophiliac, go go dancing, alcoholic, disease filled, drug using, ass fucking, child molesting, pansy ass, anti-religious queers.

Yup. I'm helping to hold the gay community back by supporting the "fag stragglers" who make us all "look different."


This because I protest cutting off support to members of our own community because their gender presentation is too far outside the norm for heterosexual society to be comfortable with. Because I feel we all lose something - lose a lot - if we whittle parts of ourselves away to fit heterosexist norms.

I don't use the word "heterosexist" much, but this time, I think it's warranted. Because that is NOT what I feel this struggle to be about - "Look at us be Good Queers(tm)!" No, I think not.


Of course, this means that I am helping to destroy the gay rights movement. GO ME!

I just wanted to warn y'all, in case you decided not to associate with me any longer. God knows, I'll only help bring us all down.

This has been a public service announcement!

I can't remember the last time I saw such virulent homophobia in a gay space. How do you respond to something like that?