If no one's business why do incidents like this also keep happening?
I'm aware of the other side of the coin, and on this occasion, I don't like either side.
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@Naomi exactly like you said initially - nobody elses business. So the article you posted is a good example of the flipside of the pride stuff. You can either see it as people expressing themselves (obviously not talking about the physical violence - no excuse for that... unless you're beating down a rapist/pedo), or you can see that both are obnoxious and irrelevant.

@Tom81 Don't forget that there are conservative LGBTQs. Douglas Murray and Peter Thiel for example. They never take part in rainbow marches. It's the stupid assumptions like all LGBTQs are progressive, all conservatives are far-right, etc. that irritate me.

@Naomi Agreed - there are extremes in every group and they're usually the minority but the most vocal and the most seen (and do not represent the majority). The people in the centre look similar (no matter what side), and the people on the edges/extremes look similar to their counterparts.

I don't care about other people's sexuality.

@Naomi

I care about it only insofar as people using it as a weapon against me. If consenting adults just did their thing in the privacy of their own home, hotel room, RV, etc. there'd be literally nothing to ever be concerned about.

@Alysandir I guess having a gay brother with particular attitude, as you describe, makes it a little difficult not to have concerns.
When I watch or read about incidents like homophobic evangelicals deliberately setting up a platform with a loudspeaker in an area where LGBTQ people live and delivering hate speech against them, I have to wonder why they need to do that. Is that because they believe that their god doesn't allow homosexuality, so gay people must be cured or eliminated or something? I read somewhere though that the Bible says nothing about homosexuality because sexual orientation was not understood in biblical times.
I also don't understand why some LGBTQ people feel the need to come on so strong that they impose their sexual orientation, let alone LGBTQ rights (what are they exactly?), on others? They're probably in the (loud) minority, both hate speech evangelicals and rainbow LGBTQ, but why get each other's throats over sexuality? I don't get it.

@Naomi

I guess having a gay brother with particular attitude, as you describe, makes it a little difficult not to have concerns.

I'm really not sure what it is you're trying to say here, so let me be very clear: I don't care who sleeps with who, so long as minors and animals aren't involved. I don't have any concerns about who is gay or who is straight or who is bi and who is ase or whatever other shades have come into being since the last time I seriously studied the subject. As I tried to explain, I want there to be MORE love in this world, not less. That maybe if more people had love in their lives, we wouldn't be such assholes to each other and maybe we'd want to make the world a better place instead of constantly to tear it down.

As to your questions, which are basically, "why do anti-gay people act so horribly?" and "why do gay activists feel equally justified in acting so horribly?" I would say your concerns mirror my own. I am beyond tired of people using sexuality as a social weapon to push an agenda that is anything but tolerance.

Why do people do it? I would imagine it's because they think it gives them power and purpose. Or maybe it's that weird human behavior we all have encountered where someone thinks they know better than you how to live your life, yet can't even get their own house in order. Whatever it is, the world would be a happier place if it just stopped.

@Alysandir I thought you were referring your brother to (2). Anyway, everything is politicised, and I don't go along with it. I'm also tired of people who repeat, like parrots, narratives that generated by propagandists.

I'm pretty sure that the majority don't introduce themselves "Hi, my name is so and so, and I'm heterosexual/homosexuals." Lol

@Naomi the individuals aren't the problem. The problems are state run schools and organisations interfering with childrens sexuality, and at times also tries to define adults sexuality. Sexuality is a private thing. If an individual (straight or gay) involves me in something I don't want to be involved in, I can easily let them know. State messing with me; not so much.

Hello there. "I recall that the homosexuals were mostly respectful of the heterosexuals and vice versa." If you say so - maybe before my time. I believe that it was illegal to be homosexual in England. Anyway, I've also come across enough heterosexuals who are also guilty of making contemptuous comments about LGBT+. Why get at each other's throats over sexuality? What's gone wrong then?