Those who screech and fearmonger about a person or thing cause much more visibility of that person or thing than anything else. AOC, for example, was better-known to conservatives than to anyone else in polls because of how much she was demonized by them. Don't know if that's still true.

Not homophobes helping visibility. 💀

there are obviously gop members that are in sham relationships and are closeted. like My LINDSEY, and then madison cawthorne started saying they all have orgies.

And see.....here's the thing. If they were just gay? That'd be fine. What I take offense to is the fact that they condemn anyone not within their inner circle for being gay.

It's like they want to paint this picture of what they want america to be. And in this picture it's essentially the town from the andy griffith show. Except they also want a little secret gay sex. But anyone ELSE that has gay sex is to be punished! WHILE THEY DO THE EXACT SAME SHIT THEY PUNISH OTHERS FOR!!!

Like the secret is some shamable offense. It's not though. So you took it in the ass last night from a dude. So what? As long as you're both ok with it, then I see no issue. Yet they want to act like nobody else is allowed to do that.

in about 90% of the cases

And other complete bullshit statistics I ripped out of thin air.

If you think even close to 90% of homophobes – or fuck it, 90% of cases if you think the countable closet gay instances are vastly unevenly distributed among a tiny 1% – are doing it because they're secretly aching for gay sex/romance, you're out of your fucking mind and need to take that shit back to high school psychology.

Just like 90% of racists don't secretly wish they were another race or 90% of transphobes aren't closet trans, this is egregiously wrong and nonsensical.

It doesn't. It shifts the conversation from people to ideas. If those politicians are actually in the closet, then it's not about straight vs queer but about hateful vs accepting. Which is a much more realistic framework that also encompasses conservative hate for women, racial minorities, immigrants, other religions, and counterculture elements, all in one neat package. It stops looking like sexeral different battles and starts looking like what it is: a single organized campaign against humanity by people infected with hateful ideas.

i dont see how it causes more harm, or infighting against gay people. it exposes thier hyprocisy of gay politicians. if you were gay you would know which people are the ones actually harming. there are plenty of evidence that homophobic people are gay themselves.

Bizarre its only ever straight people that are obssesed with not claiming homophobics are gay, they are the ones doing the most harm through denial that Homphobic people are remotely not gay.